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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-9083:
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Sounds good to me
> [R] collect int64 as R integer type if not out of bounds
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> Key: ARROW-9083
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-9083
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: R
> Reporter: Neal Richardson
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.0.0
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> {{bit64::integer64}} can be awkward to work with in R (one example:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/7385). Often in Arrow we get {{int64}}
> types from [compute methods|https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7308] or
> other translation methods that auto-promote to the largest integer type, but
> they would fit fine in a 32-bit integer, which is R's native type.
> When calling {{Array__as_vector}} on an int64, we could first call the minmax
> function on the array, and if the extrema are within the range of a 32-bit
> int, return a regular R integer vector. This would add a little bit of
> ambiguity as to what R type you'll get from an Arrow type, but I wonder if
> the benefits are worth it since you can't do much with an integer64 in R. (We
> could also make this optional, similar to ARROW-7657, so you could specify a
> "strict" mode if you are in a use case where roundtrip fidelity is more
> important than R usability.)
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