Another CRAN release needed: not compatible with arrow

[rorynolan]

The current CRAN feather package is saying valid feather files are not valid because the current CRAN arrow package is ahead of it.

packageVersion("feather")
#> [1] '0.3.5'
packageVersion("arrow")
#> [1] '3.0.0'
tmp_feather <- tempfile(fileext = ".feather")
arrow::write_feather(iris, tmp_feather)
df <- arrow::read_feather(tmp_feather)
feather::read_feather(tmp_feather)
#> Error in openFeather(path): Invalid: Not a feather file

^{Created on 2021-01-27 by the reprex package (v1.0.0)}

I can see that in the dev version here on GitHub you've already done the sensible thing and just wrapped arrow.
I think this should be released to CRAN. Happy to do this for you with your permission. Have submitted to CRAN plenty of times.

[nealrichardson]

Leaving aside the question of whether there should be a feather release to CRAN, the problem in your code is that arrow writes Feather V2 by default, and the current feather package is V1 only. arrow::write_feather(iris, tmp_feather, version = 1) would be readable by the feather package as it stands on CRAN (and both would be readable with the dev version of feather since it is just a wrapper around arrow).

[IndrajeetPatil]

There might be a CRAN update necessary also to address the issues found in CRAN's additional checks:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kalibera/cran-checks/master/rchk/results/feather.out