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Jonathan Keane commented on ARROW-15813:
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I'm skeptical it can be done in R, and almost certainly not in a performant
manner (unless format already accepts regex like that?)
> [R]strptime should support partial format
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> Key: ARROW-15813
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15813
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: R
> Reporter: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld
> Priority: Major
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> In base R we can use {{strptime}} to parse and extract parts from a datetime
> by passing a restricted format.
> {code:r}
> > strptime("2012-05-25 18:45:32", format = "%Y-%m-%d")
> [1] "2012-05-25 BST"
> > strptime("2012-05-25 18:45:32", format = "%Y-%m-%d %H")
> [1] "2012-05-25 18:00:00 BST
> {code}
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