Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld created ARROW-16253:
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Summary: [R] Helper function for casting from float to duration
via int64()
Key: ARROW-16253
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16253
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: R
Reporter: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld
This logic is used in several places in {{R/dplyr-funcs-datetime.R}} and it
would be great if we could separate it into a standalone helper function. The
main purpose would be to indicate the float -> int64 -> duration casting chain
is being used.
https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12757/#discussion_r852389088
{quote}I've seen this line in a few PRs recently — this is to get around the
fact that we do not have float durations, yeah? I wonder if we should put that
into a helper function. Not so much to save lines of code, but to encapsulate
that we have this one workaround that we're using in all of these places.
Then if that workaround is not necessary (or if we find a better one) we can
change it in one place. We don't need to do that here, but it would be good to
make a Jira for that if we do want to.{quote}
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