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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
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> 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
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> Time Spent: 1h
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> 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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