dragosmg commented on a change in pull request #12433:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12433#discussion_r815947864



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File path: r/R/dplyr-funcs-type.R
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@@ -76,6 +76,53 @@ 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,
+                                       origin = "1970-01-01",
+                                       tz = "UTC") {
+    # base::as.Date() first converts to UTC and then extracts the date, which 
is
+    # why we need to go through timestamp() first - see unit tests for the real
+    # life impact of the difference between lubridate::date() and 
base::as.Date()
+    # browser()
+    if (call_binding("is.Date", x)) {
+      # arrow_date <- build_expr("cast", x, options = cast_options(to_type = 
date32()))
+      return(x)
+    } else if (call_binding("is.POSIXct", x)) {
+      if (tz == "UTC") {
+        arrow_timestamp <- build_expr("cast", x, options = 
cast_options(to_type = timestamp(timezone = tz)))
+        return(build_expr("cast", arrow_timestamp, options = 
cast_options(to_type = date32())))
+      } else {
+        abort("`as.Date()` with a timezone different to 'UTC' is not supported 
in Arrow")
+      }
+    } else if (call_binding("is.character", x)) {
+      # this could be improved with tryFormats once strptime returns NA and we
+      # can use coalesce - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15659
+      # TODO revisit once https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15659 is 
done
+      if (!is.null(format)) {
+        arrow_timestamp <- call_binding("strptime", x, format, unit = "s")
+        return(build_expr("cast", arrow_timestamp, options = 
cast_options(to_type = date32())))
+      } else {
+        abort("`as.Date()` without `format` is not supported in Arrow")
+      }
+
+    } else if (call_binding("is.numeric", x)) {
+      # the origin argument will be better supported once we implement temporal
+      # arithmetic (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14947)
+      # TODO revisit once the above has been sorted
+      if (!call_binding("is.integer", x)) {
+        # Arrow does not support direct casting from double to date so we have
+        # to convert to integers first - casting to int32() would error so we
+        # need to use round before casting
+        x <- call_binding("floor", x)
+        x <- build_expr("cast", x, options = (cast_options(to_type = int32())))
+      }
+      if (origin == "1970-01-01") {
+        return(build_expr("cast", x, options = cast_options(to_type = 
date32())))
+      } else {
+        abort("`as.Date()` with an `origin` different than '1970-01-01' is not 
supported in Arrow")

Review comment:
       [ARROW-15799](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15799) to 
revisit `as.Date()` and update the handling of the `origin` argument. 




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