[cpp11] "does not name a type"

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I am using the cpp11 package (not available as a topic tag) to invoke C++ code from R, but I get an odd compilation error.

My C++ code simply calls a function from a library, and passes the result back to R as is. The data type I am returning is an R data type, so my R code imports arrow as well as my C++ code (I am hoping that by importing the arrow library in R first, it will already be able to handle the data type being returned).

However, the compilation of the C++ code produces an error, thinking the "arrow namespace" is trying to name a type. Can someone help me understand why this is?

For my R code:

library(arrow)
library(cpp11)

cpp_source(file='src/skyteth_r.cpp')

For my C++ code:

#include "cpp11.hpp"

// Other includes

[[cpp11::register]]
arrow::Result<BatchStreamRdrPtr>
R_GetReaderForKey(cpp11::r_string table_key);

I get the following error:

/tmp/RtmpTCOCmO/file354a4ad33ec6/src/cpp11.cpp:4:1: error: ‘arrow’ does not name a type
 arrow::Result<BatchStreamRdrPtr> R_GetReaderForKey(cpp11::r_string table_key);
 ^~~~~
/tmp/RtmpTCOCmO/file354a4ad33ec6/src/cpp11.cpp: In function ‘SEXPREC* _skyteth_r_R_GetReaderForKey(SEXP)’:
/tmp/RtmpTCOCmO/file354a4ad33ec6/src/cpp11.cpp:7:27: error: ‘R_GetReaderForKey’ was not declared in this scope
     return cpp11::as_sexp(R_GetReaderForKey(cpp11::as_cpp<cpp11::decay_t<cpp11::r_string>>(table_key)));
                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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