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[jira] [Assigned] (ARROW-7796) [R] write_* functions should invisibly return their inputs

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7796?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Neal Richardson reassigned ARROW-7796:
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    Assignee: Sam Albers

> [R] write_* functions should invisibly return their inputs
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-7796
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7796
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: R
>    Affects Versions: 0.15.1
>         Environment: Windows 10, R 3.6.2
>            Reporter: Sam Albers
>            Assignee: Sam Albers
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>             Fix For: 1.0.0
>
>          Time Spent: 1h 20m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
>  
> I am wondering if you'd consider a slight change to what is returned by the write_* functions. In \{readr} the write functions return its input which is very useful for saving intermediate objects within a pipeline. I'd be happy to take this on and submit as a pull request. A quick illustration:
> {code:java}
>  library(arrow)
>  #> 
>  #> Attaching package: 'arrow'
>  #> The following object is masked from 'package:utils':
>  #> 
>  #> timestamp
>  library(readr)
>  #> 
>  #> Attaching package: 'readr'
>  #> The following object is masked from 'package:arrow':
>  #> 
>  #> read_table
> iris_arrow <- write_parquet(iris, "iris.parquet")
>  iris_arrow
>  #> NULL
> iris_readr <- write_csv(iris, "iris.csv")
> head(iris_readr)
>  #> Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
>  #> 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa
>  #> 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa
>  #> 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa
>  #> 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa
>  #> 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa
>  #> 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
> devtools::session_info()
>  #> - Session info ---------------------------------------------------------------
>  #> setting value 
>  #> version R version 3.6.2 (2019-12-12)
>  #> os Windows 10 x64 
>  #> system x86_64, mingw32 
>  #> ui RTerm 
>  #> language (EN) 
>  #> collate English_Canada.1252 
>  #> ctype English_Canada.1252 
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>  #> date 2020-02-07 
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> {code}
>  



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