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Dewey Dunnington commented on ARROW-14379:
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Are there examples other than sf columns where this is relevant? It would be
possible to make a generic list extension type that just calls {{serialize()}}
on each element but it would probably be slow and we probably want to encourage
other solutions. The other example I can think of is a list of models, maybe,
for which the `broom::glance()` or `broom::tidy()` representation would fit in
to Arrow format much better.
> [R] Create a custom extension of list that stores row-level metadata
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> Key: ARROW-14379
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14379
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: R
> Reporter: Jonathan Keane
> Priority: Major
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> Since lists can be nested, we should be able store each element as something
> like {{list(value = "foo", attributes = list(attr1 = TRUE, attr2 = "baz"))}}
> and then we can reconstitute that in the R conversion to transfer the
> attributes element to attributes.
> This will be more efficient (since we get compression on the column +
> metadata/attributes) and we also will be able to filter these + use them in
> datasets since each row has all of the information about itself that it needs
> to roundtrip.
> This would get us SF columns for free
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