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[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-5505) [R] Stop masking base R functions

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5505?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16863544#comment-16863544 ] 

Neal Richardson commented on ARROW-5505:
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PR [https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/4491] aborted pending further design but see the discussion there for ideas.

> [R] Stop masking base R functions
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-5505
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5505
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: R
>            Reporter: Neal Richardson
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.14.0
>
>          Time Spent: 1h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> The package startup message about masking base functions can be scary. We should avoid masking base functions without a compelling reason (i.e. let's do arrow_array() instead of array(), arrow_table()). The arrow versions do very different things than the base functions; plus, end users shouldn’t be dealing directly with Tables and Arrays, so they don’t need to figure so prominently in the public API of the package.



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