ianmcook commented on a change in pull request #10269:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10269#discussion_r629647107



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File path: r/R/record-batch.R
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@@ -161,6 +161,17 @@ RecordBatch$create <- function(..., schema = NULL) {
     out <- RecordBatch__from_arrays(schema, arrays)
     return(dplyr::group_by(out, !!!dplyr::groups(arrays[[1]])))
   }
+
+  # If any arrays are length 1, recycle them  
+  arr_lens <- map_int(arrays, length)
+  if (length(arrays) > 1 && any(arr_lens == 1) && !all(arr_lens==1)){
+    max_array_len <- max(arr_lens)
+    arrays <- modify2(
+      arrays,
+      arr_lens == 1,
+      ~if(.y) MakeArrayFromScalar(Scalar$create(as.vector(.x)), max_array_len) 
else .x

Review comment:
       Looking at this a bit more, I think it might require some challenging 
C++ coding to implement `combine_chunks()` like I described. Perhaps it should 
be dealt with in a separate Jira & separate PR.




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