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Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld commented on ARROW-13886:
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Should we extend the ticket to deprecate {{decimal()}} and implement
{{decimal128()}} and {{decimal256()}} as per Antoine's suggestion:
"For the record, it would be good to deprecate the decimal call and replace it
with decimal128 (also, is decimal256 exposed?)."
Any thoughts? [~thisisnic][~npr][~jonkeane][~paleolimbot]
> [R] Expand documentation for decimal()
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>
> Key: ARROW-13886
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13886
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: R
> Reporter: Nicola Crane
> Assignee: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: good-first-issue
>
> Two main things we could update here:
> # The general description of what the decimal type is and is for and/or a
> link to the C++ docs - in the details section, add some explanation of what
> an Arrow {{decimal()}} type is and why it is automatically mapped to an R
> {{double}} type
> # Documentation of the params precision and scale. We could add a bit more
> information to explain what that actually means to the user, as it's not
> immediately obvious.
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