[ARROW-9001] [R] Box outputs as correct type in call_function

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25121
• Assignee: Romain Francois
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 01/Jun/20 20:15
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:03
• Resolved: 11/Nov/20 20:30

Description

This would prevent segfaults by putting the externalptr in the wrong kind of R6 container, plus allow us to skip a bunch of hackery where we try to track or guess the class of the object returned from call_function (could be Array, ChunkedArray, Scalar, RecordBatch, or Table).

reticulate does something along these lines; it's a subclass of environment I think but not exactly an R6 class.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8256