[ARROW-14199] [R] bindings for format where possible

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18870
• Assignee: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld
• Reporter: Jonathan Keane
• Created: 01/Oct/21 17:45
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:38
• Resolved: 11/Mar/22 16:34

Description

Now that we have strftime, we should also be able to make bindings for format() as well. This might be complicated / we might need to punt on a bunch of types that format() can take but arrow doesn't (yet) support formatting of them, that's ok.

Though some of those might be wrappable with a handful of kernels stacked together: format(float) might be round + cast to character

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12319