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GH-32123: [R] Expose azure blob filesystem#49553
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@marberts marberts commented Mar 19, 2026

Rationale for this change

This PR adds support for Azure. The Arrow R package already has support for AWS and GCS, and the Arrow C++ library has had support for Azure for a couple years now. Support for Azure is already available in pyarrow.

This would close #32123.

What changes are included in this PR?

  • A new class AzureFileSystem that's analogous to S3FileSystem/GcsFileSystem, along with a helper function az_container() that's analogous to s3_bucket()/gcs_bucket().

  • Updates to src/filesystem.cpp to interact with the machinery in arrow/filesystem/azurefs.h.

  • Updates to the configuration and build scripts to support building with support for Azure.

  • Updates to the vignettes on cloud storage, installation, and developer setup.

Are these changes tested?

Yes. See tests/testthat/test-azure.R.

Are there any user-facing changes?

Yes. There is a new function az_container(), serving the analogous role to s3_bucket()/gcs_bucket(), along with an R6 class AzureFileSystem, again serving the same role as S3FileSystem and GcsFileSystem. There is also a function arrow_with_azure() to indicate if Arrow was built with support for Azure.

marberts and others added 30 commits February 19, 2026 23:02
We'll want to use the proper build flag before submitting the PR but for now this successfully links the C++ binding to the azurefs_is_functional_test function.
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Note: I think what's happening is that the build of Arrow I install doesn't have the ARROW_AZURE flag enabled. When I "force" the environment variable I get an error like "fs___AzureFileSystem__Make not found".
Note: this was causing a seg fault when anything that inherits from FileSystem ries to access the base_path property. Uncommenting the return line and rebuilding the R package resolved this issue.
At this point, I was able to call write_feather(example_data, fs$path("test/test.feather")) successfully against Azurite.

Committing progress before I make any further changes.
marberts and others added 30 commits March 24, 2026 16:05
Note: this was causing a seg fault when anything that inherits from FileSystem ries to access the base_path property. Uncommenting the return line and rebuilding the R package resolved this issue.
At this point, I was able to call write_feather(example_data, fs$path("test/test.feather")) successfully against Azurite.

Committing progress before I make any further changes.
Switch over  to locally hosted azurite instead of local docker container azurite.
rebuild docs with devtools::document().

rename argument in az_container to container_path instead of bucket
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[R] Expose Azure Blob Storage filesystem

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