Dewey Dunnington created ARROW-15173:
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Summary: [R] Provide backward compatibility for bridge to older
versions of pyarrow
Key: ARROW-15173
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15173
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: R
Reporter: Dewey Dunnington
Fix For: 7.0.0
After ARROW-15169 is merged, the Python--R bridge code will properly use
external pointers to pass references to C API structures. The changes made on
the R side will (probably) only work with the new pyarrow version. If it
doesn't, it's not hard to provide backward compatibility:
{code:R}
pa <- reticulate::import("pyarrow")
if (package_version(pa$`__version__`) >= "6.0.0.9000") {
# the new code
} else {
# the old code
}
#> NULL
{code}
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