Ian Cook created ARROW-12908:
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Summary: [R] Allow string input to as_type()
Key: ARROW-12908
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12908
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: R
Reporter: Ian Cook
Currently the function {{as_type()}} expects argument {{type}} to be a
{{DataType}}, e.g.
{code:r}
as_type(int32())
## Int32
## int32{code}
It would be nice if this function could also accept a string and return a
{{DataType}}, e.g.
{code:r}
as_type("int32")
## Int32
## int32{code}
See discussion here:
[https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10327#discussion_r640171712]
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