Ian Cook created ARROW-12322:
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Summary: [R] Work around masking of data type functions
Key: ARROW-12322
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12322
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: R
Reporter: Ian Cook
Assignee: Ian Cook
There are more than two dozen data type functions in the arrow package, and
they are named very generically, so they represent a large surface area for
potential masking problems, which are likely to occur in user environments, not
in our CI. If these masking errors do occur, they will probably give
frustratingly unhelpful error messages. This happened to me with
{{rlang::string()}}. The error was:
{quote}Error in is_integerish(x) : argument "x" is missing, with no default
{quote}
This can be worked around with some non-standard eval magic.
I implemented a working version of this in
[https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9952] but we removed it before merging
that PR because there were questions about whether there was a better way to
implement it.
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