Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am doing this in R and this Python function returns a pyspark.sql.dataframe.DataFrame type which I can't access in R. But with the information you provided I found some code that was supposed to work for R but the install.packages fails.

install.packages("arrow")

library(arrow)

read_parquet("myfile.parquet")

install.packages("arrow", repos = "https://arrow-r-nightly.s3.amazonaws.com")

Developer version fails to install also.