[jira] [Created] (ARROW-15173) [R] Provide backward compatibility for bridge to older versions of pyarrow

["Dewey Dunnington (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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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