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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+#include "./arrow_types.h"
+
+namespace arrow {
+namespace r {
+SEXP symbols::units = Rf_install("units");
+SEXP symbols::tzone = Rf_install("tzone");
+SEXP symbols::xp = Rf_install(".:xp:.");
+SEXP symbols::dot_Internal = Rf_install(".Internal");
+SEXP symbols::inspect = Rf_install("inspect");
+SEXP symbols::row_names = Rf_install("row.names");
+SEXP symbols::serialize_arrow_r_metadata = Rf_install(".serialize_arrow_r_metadata");
+SEXP symbols::as_list = Rf_install("as.list");
+SEXP symbols::ptype = Rf_install("ptype");
+SEXP symbols::byte_width = Rf_install("byte_width");
+SEXP symbols::list_size = Rf_install("list_size");
+SEXP symbols::arrow_attributes = Rf_install("arrow_attributes");
+SEXP symbols::new_ = Rf_install("new");
+SEXP symbols::create = Rf_install("create");
+SEXP symbols::arrow = Rf_install("arrow");
+
+// persistently protect `x` and return it
+SEXP precious(SEXP x) {
+ PROTECT(x);
+ R_PreserveObject(x);
+ UNPROTECT(1);
+ return x;
+}
+
+// returns the namespace environment for package `name`
+SEXP precious_namespace(std::string name) {
+ SEXP s_name = PROTECT(cpp11::writable::strings({name}));
+ SEXP ns = R_FindNamespace(s_name);
+ R_PreserveObject(ns);
+ UNPROTECT(1);
+
+ return ns;
+}
+SEXP data::classes_POSIXct = precious(cpp11::writable::strings({"POSIXct", "POSIXt"}));
+SEXP data::classes_metadata_r = precious(cpp11::writable::strings({"arrow_r_metadata"}));
+SEXP data::classes_vctrs_list_of =
+ precious(cpp11::writable::strings({"vctrs_list_of", "vctrs_vctr", "list"}));
+SEXP data::classes_tbl_df =
+ precious(cpp11::writable::strings({"tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"}));
+
+SEXP data::classes_arrow_binary =
+ precious(cpp11::writable::strings({"arrow_binary", "vctrs_vctr", "list"}));
+SEXP data::classes_arrow_large_binary =
+ precious(cpp11::writable::strings({"arrow_large_binary", "vctrs_vctr", "list"}));
+SEXP data::classes_arrow_fixed_size_binary =
+ precious(cpp11::writable::strings({"arrow_fixed_size_binary", "vctrs_vctr", "list"}));
+SEXP data::classes_factor = precious(cpp11::writable::strings({"factor"}));
+SEXP data::classes_ordered = precious(cpp11::writable::strings({"ordered", "factor"}));
+
+SEXP data::classes_arrow_list = precious(
+ cpp11::writable::strings({"arrow_list", "vctrs_list_of", "vctrs_vctr", "list"}));
+SEXP data::classes_arrow_large_list = precious(cpp11::writable::strings(
+ {"arrow_large_list", "vctrs_list_of", "vctrs_vctr", "list"}));
+SEXP data::classes_arrow_fixed_size_list = precious(cpp11::writable::strings(
+ {"arrow_fixed_size_list", "vctrs_list_of", "vctrs_vctr", "list"}));
+
+SEXP data::names_metadata = precious(cpp11::writable::strings({"attributes", "columns"}));
+
+SEXP ns::arrow = precious_namespace("arrow");
+
+void inspect(SEXP obj) {
+ SEXP call_inspect = PROTECT(Rf_lang2(symbols::inspect, obj));
+ SEXP call_internal = PROTECT(Rf_lang2(symbols::dot_Internal, call_inspect));
+ Rf_eval(call_internal, R_GlobalEnv);
+ UNPROTECT(2);
+}
+
+} // namespace r
+} // namespace arrow