[ARROW-7448] [R] Parquet compression not working

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 0.15.1
• Component/s: R
• Environment: Ubuntu 19.10 + conda version of arrow
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23718
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: [e-mail]
• Created: 20/Dec/19 11:17
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:53
• Resolved: 20/Dec/19 15:59

Description

When trying to write a parquet file with gzip compression, I get the following error: 

> arrow::write_parquet(mtcars, "test.parquet", "gzip")
Error in parquet___arrow___FileWriter__WriteTable(self, table, chunk_size) : 
  Not compatible with requested type: [type=character; target=double].