dragosmg commented on a change in pull request #12433:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12433#discussion_r817545112
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File path: r/R/dplyr-funcs-type.R
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@@ -76,6 +76,60 @@ register_bindings_type_cast <- function() {
register_binding("as.numeric", function(x) {
Expression$create("cast", x, options = cast_options(to_type = float64()))
})
+ register_binding("as.Date", function(x,
+ format = NULL,
+ tryFormats = "%Y-%m-%d",
+ origin = "1970-01-01",
+ tz = "UTC") {
+
+ if (call_binding("is.Date", x)) {
+ # base::as.Date() first converts to the desired timezone and then
extracts
+ # the date, which is why we need to go through timestamp() first
+ return(x)
+
+ # cast from POSIXct
+ } else if (call_binding("is.POSIXct", x)) {
+ if (tz == "UTC") {
+ x <- build_expr("cast", x, options = cast_options(to_type =
timestamp(timezone = tz)))
+ } else {
+ abort("`as.Date()` with a timezone different to 'UTC' is not supported
in Arrow")
+ }
Review comment:
I wrote it like I did for 2 reasons:
* firstly, to have a clear error message for the user
* secondly, to leave it in (what I thought was) best shape for follow-up work
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