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Field

Field class

Description

field() lets you create an arrow::Field that maps a DataType to a column name. Fields are contained in Schemas.

Usage

field(name, type, metadata)

Arguments

`name`	field name
`type`	logical type, instance of DataType
`metadata`	currently ignored

Methods

f$ToString(): convert to a string
f$Equals(other): test for equality. More naturally called as f == other

Examples

field("x", int32())

arrow

Integration to 'Apache' 'Arrow'

v4.0.0.1

Apache License (>= 2.0)

Authors

Neal Richardson [aut, cre], Ian Cook [aut], Jonathan Keane [aut], Romain François [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2444-4226>), Jeroen Ooms [aut], Javier Luraschi [ctb], Jeffrey Wong [ctb], Apache Arrow [aut, cph]

Initial release