[ARROW-15098] [R] Add binding for lubridate::duration() and/or as.difftime()

• Type: Sub-task
• 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/30609
• Assignee: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld
• Reporter: Dewey Dunnington
• Created: 14/Dec/21 13:52
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:44
• Resolved: 24/Mar/22 20:08

Description

After ARROW-14941 we have support for the duration type; however, there is no binding for lubridate::duration() or as.difftime() available in dplyr evaluation that could create these objects. I'm actually not sure if we should bind lubridate::duration since it returns a custom S4 class that's identical in function to base R's difftime.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: ARROW-14810 [R] Implement bindings for lubridate's date_decimal and decimal_date
• is depended upon by: ARROW-14942 [R] Bindings for lubridate's dpicoseconds, dnanoseconds, desconds, dmilliseconds, dmicroseconds
• is depended upon by: ARROW-14944 [R] Implement lubridate::make_difftime
• is depended upon by: ARROW-15799 [R] Update as.Date() to support an origin different from epoch
• is depended upon by: ARROW-15800 [R] Implement bindings for lubridate::as_date() and lubridate::as_datetime()
• is duplicated by: ARROW-15766 [R] Implement bindings for lubridate::duration()
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12506