Change the type of an array or column

This is a wrapper around the $cast() method that many Arrow objects have. It is more convenient to call inside dplyr pipelines than the method.

Usage

cast(x, to, safe = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

• x:

  an Array, Table, Expression, or similar Arrow data object.

• to:

  DataType to cast to; for Table and RecordBatch, it should be a Schema.

• safe:

  logical: only allow the type conversion if no data is lost (truncation, overflow, etc.). Default is TRUE.

• ...:

  specific CastOptions to set

Value

An Expression

See also

data-type for a list of DataType to be used with to.

Arrow C++ CastOptions documentation # nolint for the list of supported CastOptions.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
mtcars |>
  arrow_table() |>
  mutate(cyl = cast(cyl, string()))
} # }