[jira] [Assigned] (ARROW-14228) [R] Allow for creation of nullable fields

["Neal Richardson (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14228?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Neal Richardson reassigned ARROW-14228:
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    Assignee: Matthew Peterson

> [R] Allow for creation of nullable fields
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>
>                 Key: ARROW-14228
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14228
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: R
>            Reporter: Matthew Peterson
>            Assignee: Matthew Peterson
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>          Time Spent: 2h 40m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> The current implementation of the Field class does not allow for the creation of nullable fields - nullable is hard-coded as TRUE.
>  
> {{{{Field$create <- function(name, type, metadata) {}}}}
> {{ \{{ assert_that(inherits(name, "character"), length(name) == 1L)}}}}
> {{ \{{ type <- as_type(type, name)}}}}
> {{ \{{ assert_that(missing(metadata), msg = "metadata= is currently ignored")}}}}
> {{ {{ Field__initialize(enc2utf8(name), type, *TRUE*)}}}}
> {{ {{}}}}}



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