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Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld edited comment on ARROW-15996 at 3/23/22, 11:18 AM:
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Moreso, I discovered we are actually mapping Arrow's {{time32()}} and
{{time64()}} to R's {{hms::difftime}} (a somewhat special flavour of
{{base::difftime}}). Arrow's {{duration}} is mapped to {{base::difftime}}.
was (Author: dragosmg):
Moreso, I discovered we are actually mapping Arrow's {{time32()}} and
{{time64()}} to R's {{hms::difftime}} (a somewhat special flavour of
{{base::difftime}}).
> [C++] Support casting from time32 and time64 to duration
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>
> Key: ARROW-15996
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15996
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld
> Priority: Critical
>
> It would be really helpful if we could convert {{time32}} and {{time64}} to
> {{duration}}. For example, it could simplify the implementation of some of
> the R bindings (e.g. {{difftime}}).
> {code:r}
> library(arrow, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
> a <- Array$create(32000L)
> a
> #> Array
> #> <int32>
> #> [
> #> 32000
> #> ]
> a$cast(time32())
> #> Array
> #> <time32[ms]>
> #> [
> #> 00:00:32.000
> #> ]
> a$cast(int64())$cast(time64())
> #> Array
> #> <time64[ns]>
> #> [
> #> 00:00:00.000032000
> #> ]
> a$cast(time32())$cast(duration())
> #> Error: NotImplemented: Unsupported cast from time32[ms] to duration using
> function cast_duration
> a$cast(int64())$cast(time64())$cast(duration())
> #> Error: NotImplemented: Unsupported cast from time64[ns] to duration using
> function cast_duration
> {code}
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