romainfrancois commented on a change in pull request #11751: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/11751#discussion_r754522878
########## File path: r/R/type.R ########## @@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ DataType <- R6Class("DataType", fields = function() { DataType__fields(self) }, - export_to_c = function(ptr) ExportType(self, ptr) + export_to_c = function(ptr) ExportType(self, ptr), + code = function() call2("unknown_type", self$ToString()) Review comment: The bit we had previously with an artificial call to `unknown_type()` allowed to have almost all the schema, with just these as placeholders: ``` r library(arrow, warn.conflicts = FALSE) #> See arrow_info() for available features try_ <- function(code) tryCatch(code, error = function(cnd) print(cnd, backtrace = FALSE)) try_( schema(x = int32(), y = struct(a = arrow:::DayTimeInterval__initialize()))$code() ) #> schema(x = int32(), y = struct(a = unknown_type("day_time_interval"))) ``` <sup>Created on 2021-11-22 by the [reprex package](https://reprex.tidyverse.org) (v2.0.1.9000)</sup> -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org