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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-datum.R
+
+#' @title Arrow scalars
+#' @usage NULL
+#' @format NULL
+#' @docType class
+#'
+#' @description A `Scalar` holds a single value of an Arrow type.
+#'
+#' @section Methods:
+#'   `$ToString()`: convert to a string
+#'   `$as_vector()`: convert to an R vector
+#'   `$as_array()`: convert to an Arrow `Array`
+#'   `$Equals(other)`: is this Scalar equal to `other`
+#'   `$ApproxEquals(other)`: is this Scalar approximately equal to `other`
+#'   `$is_valid`: is this Scalar valid
+#'   `$null_count`: number of invalid values - 1 or 0
+#'   `$type`: Scalar type
+#'
+#' @name Scalar
+#' @rdname Scalar
+#' @examplesIf arrow_available()
+#' Scalar$create(pi)
+#' Scalar$create(404)
+#' # If you pass a vector into Scalar$create, you get a list containing your items
+#' Scalar$create(c(1, 2, 3))
+#'
+#' # Comparisons
+#' my_scalar <- Scalar$create(99)
+#' my_scalar$ApproxEquals(Scalar$create(99.00001)) # FALSE
+#' my_scalar$ApproxEquals(Scalar$create(99.000009)) # TRUE
+#' my_scalar$Equals(Scalar$create(99.000009)) # FALSE
+#' my_scalar$Equals(Scalar$create(99L)) # FALSE (types don't match)
+#'
+#' my_scalar$ToString()
+#' @export
+Scalar <- R6Class("Scalar",
+  inherit = ArrowDatum,
+  # TODO: document the methods
+  public = list(
+    ToString = function() Scalar__ToString(self),
+    type_id = function() Scalar__type(self)$id,
+    as_vector = function() Scalar__as_vector(self),
+    as_array = function(length = 1L) MakeArrayFromScalar(self, as.integer(length)),
+    Equals = function(other, ...) {
+      inherits(other, "Scalar") && Scalar__Equals(self, other)
+    },
+    ApproxEquals = function(other, ...) {
+      inherits(other, "Scalar") && Scalar__ApproxEquals(self, other)
+    }
+  ),
+  active = list(
+    is_valid = function() Scalar__is_valid(self),
+    null_count = function() sum(!self$is_valid),
+    type = function() Scalar__type(self)
+  )
+)
+Scalar$create <- function(x, type = NULL) {
+  if (is.null(x)) {
+    x <- vctrs::unspecified(1)
+  } else if (length(x) != 1 && !is.data.frame(x)) {
+    # Wrap in a list type
+    x <- list(x)
+  }
+  Array__GetScalar(Array$create(x, type = type), 0)
+}
+
+#' @rdname array
+#' @usage NULL
+#' @format NULL
+#' @export
+StructScalar <- R6Class("StructScalar",
+  inherit = Scalar,
+  public = list(
+    field = function(i) StructScalar__field(self, i),
+    GetFieldByName = function(name) StructScalar__GetFieldByName(self, name)
+  )
+)
+
+#' @export
+length.Scalar <- function(x) 1L
+
+#' @export
+sort.Scalar <- function(x, decreasing = FALSE, ...) x