[ARROW-3591] [R] Support to collect decimal type

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19903
• Assignee: Javier Luraschi
• Reporter: Javier Luraschi
• Created: 23/Oct/18 05:27
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:28
• Resolved: 26/Oct/18 01:35

Description

Collecting from `sparklyr` decimal types through: 

devtools::install_github("apache/arrow", subdir = "r")
devtools::install_github("rstudio/sparklyr", ref = "feature/arrow")

library(sparklyr)
library(arrow)

sc <- spark_connect(master = "local")
sdf_len(sc, 3) %>% dplyr::mutate(new = 1) %>% dplyr::collect()

causes,

Error in RecordBatch__to_dataframe(x) : cannot handle Array of type decimal

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2819
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2876