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Rok Mihevc commented on ARROW-3794:
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This issue has been migrated to [issue
#20170|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20170] on GitHub. Please see the
[migration documentation|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/14542] for
further details.
> [R] Consider mapping INT8 to integer() not raw()
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> Key: ARROW-3794
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3794
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: R
> Reporter: Javier Luraschi
> Assignee: Romain Francois
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 0.14.0
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> Time Spent: 1h 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> The Arrow:BINARY type maps better to R's raw(), while Arrow::INT8 maps better
> to R's integer() since currently, NA's are not supported when collecting
> INT8's and numerical operations can't be performed against raw().
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