feat(r): Implement infer schema methods #104
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This PR implements
infer_nanoarrow_schema()
, which gives a hypothetical type of what schema an object would have if it were converted to Arrow format. Arrow'sarrow::infer_type()
does the same thing, and before this PR, nanoarrow just fell back on Arrow to infer the type conversion. Now that types can be created natively, we don't need Arrow for this.This PR implements schema inference using S3 dispatch. It would be faster to implement this in C, and this probably will be done in the future; however for now it seems like the overhead is acceptable for most uses (basically, you need more than 10,000 columns in a data frame to start noticing).
Created on 2023-02-08 with reprex v2.0.2