[R] Bindings for basic type convert functions in dplyr verbs

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Reporter: Ian Cook / @ianmcook
Assignee: Ian Cook / @ianmcook

Related issues:

• [R] dplyr bindings for cast, dictionary_encode (relates to)
• [R] Reconsider behavior of as..ArrowDatum functions (relates to)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #9942

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-12283. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
Duplicate of ARROW-12197?

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Ian Cook / @ianmcook:
I'm not sure; for this I'm translating as.character(), as.double(), as.integer(), bit64::as.integer64(), as.logical(), and as.numeric(). For ARROW-12197, were you planning on making a function cast() that accepts the target type as an argument?

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Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
Correct, ok, so different things.

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Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
Issue resolved by pull request 9942
#9942