dragosmg commented on a change in pull request #12319:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12319#discussion_r801545663



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File path: r/R/dplyr-funcs-type.R
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@@ -248,3 +249,33 @@ register_bindings_type_elementwise <- function() {
     is_inf & !call_binding("is.na", is_inf)
   })
 }
+
+register_bindings_type_format <- function() {
+  register_binding("format", function(x, ...) {
+    if (inherits(x, "Expression") &&
+        x$type_id() %in% Type[c("TIMESTAMP", "DATE32", "DATE64")]) {
+      binding_format_datetime(x, ...)
+    } else {
+      abort(paste0("`format()` not yet supported for `", class(x$type())[[1]], 
"`"))

Review comment:
       In order to mimic the behaviour of the R function, I'd be in favour of 
abandoning ship here and delegating the execution to R. Maybe switch to casting 
to string (with `x$cast(string())`) once we have handled at least a few of the 
most common types. 




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