[ARROW-3498] [R] Make IPC APIs consistent

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: R
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19817
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 11/Oct/18 15:52
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:27
• Resolved: 05/Dec/18 08:06

Description

There are many flavors of IPC functions:

• Read a complete IPC stream (where schema is included in the first message(s))
• Read an IPC "file"
• Read a schema only from a point in a buffer
• Read a record batch given a known schema and the memory address of an encapsulated IPC message

These are partly available in R now, but with names that aren't necessarily consistent. We should review each use case and normalize the API names

Issue Links

• relates to: ARROW-3499 [R] Expose arrow::ipc::Message type