jonkeane commented on a change in pull request #11898:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/11898#discussion_r766101196
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File path: r/R/array.R
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@@ -187,7 +187,18 @@ Array$create <- function(x, type = NULL) {
}
return(out)
}
- vec_to_Array(x, type)
+ tryCatch(
+ vec_to_Array(x, type),
+ error = function(cnd) {
+ if (!is.null(type)) {
+ # try again and then cast
+ vec_to_Array(x, NULL)$cast(type)
+ } else {
+ signalCondition(cnd)
+ }
+ }
+ )
+
Review comment:
Yeah, if ARROW-11631 isn't easy to accomplish, let's (continue to) defer
it — this message isn't great, but not that many people are clamouring for
Decimals right now, we have time to refine it more as we can.
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