`polars date-ranges` for dataframe

Create a column of date ranges.

This command requires a plugin

The polars date-ranges command resides in the polars plugin. To use this command, you must install and register nu_plugin_polars. See the Plugins chapter in the book for more information.

Command Type

plugin

Signature

> polars date-ranges {flags}

Flags

--start, -s {any}: Start of the date range expression. This supports a string, date, or datetime expression.
--end, -e {any}: End of the date range expression. This supports a string, date, or datetime expression.
--interval, -i {any}: Interval of the date range expression. This supports a string or duration expression.
--closed, -c {string}: Closed window of the date range expression. This supports 'left', 'right', 'both', or 'none'.
--eager: Eagerly collect the date range expression into a dataframe.

Input/output types:

input	output
any	polars_expression
any	polars_dataframe

Examples

Eagerly create a column of dates from a start, end, and interval

> polars date-ranges --start 2022-01-01 --end 2022-01-05 --interval 1d --eager
╭───┬───────────────╮
│ # │    literal    │
├───┼───────────────┤
│ 0 │ ╭───┬───────╮ │
│   │ │ 0 │ 18993 │ │
│   │ │ 1 │ 18994 │ │
│   │ │ 2 │ 18995 │ │
│   │ │ 3 │ 18996 │ │
│   │ │ 4 │ 18997 │ │
│   │ ╰───┴───────╯ │
╰───┴───────────────╯

Create a column of per-row date ranges from start and end date columns