Expression function

Arrow expressions

Expressions are used to define filter logic for passing to a Dataset

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Expression$scalar(x) constructs an Expression which always evaluates to the provided scalar (length-1) R value.

Expression$field_ref(name) is used to construct an Expression which evaluates to the named column in the Dataset against which it is evaluated.

Expression$create(function_name, ..., options) builds a function-call Expression containing one or more Expressions. Anything in ... that is not already an expression will be wrapped in Expression$scalar().

Expression$op(FUN, ...) is for logical and arithmetic operators. Scalar inputs in ... will be attempted to be cast to the common type of the Expressions in the call so that the types of the columns in the Dataset

are preserved and not unnecessarily upcast, which may be expensive.