pachamaltese commented on a change in pull request #9972:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9972#discussion_r612693329



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File path: r/tests/testthat/test-dataset.R
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@@ -1778,3 +1778,60 @@ test_that("Collecting zero columns from a dataset 
doesn't return entire dataset"
     c(32, 0)
   )
 })
+
+# see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12315
+test_that("Max partitions fails with non-integer values and less than required 
partitions values", {
+  skip_if_not_available("parquet")
+  tmp <- tempfile()
+
+  # this example needs 3 partitions
+
+  # max_partitions = chr => error
+  expect_error(
+    mtcars %>%
+      group_by(cyl) %>%
+      write_dataset(tmp, format = "parquet", max_partitions = "foobar")
+  )
+
+  # max_partitions < 3 => error
+  expect_error(
+    mtcars %>%
+      group_by(cyl) %>%
+      write_dataset(tmp, format = "parquet", max_partitions = -3)
+  )
+
+  # max_partitions < 3 => error
+  expect_error(
+    mtcars %>%
+      group_by(cyl) %>%
+      write_dataset(tmp, format = "parquet", max_partitions = 1)
+  )

Review comment:
       the error in this case is 
   ```
    Error: Invalid: Fragment would be written into 3 partitions. This exceeds 
the maximum of 1 
   ```
   
   I think this is quite clear




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