How to access row elements in a polars LazyFrame/DataFrame - dataframe

Question

I struggle accessing the row-elements of a Frame.
One idea I have is to filter the dataframe down to a row, convert it to a vec or something similar and access the elements this way ?!
In Panadas I used to just use ".at / .loc / .iloc / etc."; with Polars in Rust I have no clue.
Any suggestions on what the proper way to do this is ?

Answer 1

Thanks to #isaactfa ... he got me onto the right track. I ended up getting the row not with "get_row" but rather with "get" ... this is probably due to my little RUST understanding (my 2nd week).
Here is a working code sample:
use polars::export::arrow::temporal_conversions::date32_to_date;
use polars::prelude::*;
fn main() -> Result<()> {
let days = df!(
"date_string" => &["1900-01-01", "1900-01-02", "1900-01-03", "1900-01-04", "1900-01-05",
"1900-01-06", "1900-01-07", "1900-01-09", "1900-01-10"])?;
let options = StrpTimeOptions {
date_dtype: DataType::Date, // the result column-datatype
fmt: Some("%Y-%m-%d".into()), // the source format of the date-string
strict: false,
exact: true,
};
// convert date_string into dtype(date) and put into new column "date_type"
// we convert the days DataFrame to a LazyFrame ...
// because in my real-world example I am getting a LazyFrame
let mut new_days_lf = days.lazy().with_column(
col("date_string")
.alias("date_type")
.str()
.strptime(options),
);
// Getting the weekday as a number:
// This is what I wanted to do ... but I get a string result .. need u32
// let o = GetOutput::from_type(DataType::Date);
// new_days_lf = new_days_lf.with_column(
// col("date_type")
// .alias("weekday_number")
// .map(|x| Ok(x.strftime("%w").unwrap()), o.clone()),
// );
// This is the convoluted workaround for getting the weekday as a number
let o = GetOutput::from_type(DataType::Date);
new_days_lf = new_days_lf.with_column(col("date_type").alias("weekday_number").map(
|x| {
Ok(x.date()
.unwrap()
.clone()
.into_iter()
.map(|opt_name: Option<i32>| {
opt_name.map(|datum: i32| {
// println!("{:?}", datum);
date32_to_date(datum)
.format("%w")
.to_string()
.parse::<u32>()
.unwrap()
})
})
.collect::<UInt32Chunked>()
.into_series())
},
o,
));
new_days_lf = new_days_lf.with_column(
col("weekday_number")
.shift_and_fill(-1, 9999)
.alias("next_weekday_number"),
);
// now we convert the LazyFrame into a normal DataFrame for further processing:
let mut new_days_df = new_days_lf.collect()?;
// convert the column to a series
// to get a column by name we need to collect the LazyFrame into a normal DataFrame
let col1 = new_days_df.column("weekday_number")?;
// convert the column to a series
let col2 = new_days_df.column("next_weekday_number")?;
// now I can use series-arithmetics
let diff = col2 - col1;
// create a bool column based on "element == 2"
// add bool column to DataFrame
new_days_df.replace_or_add("weekday diff eq(2)", diff.equal(2)?.into_series());
// could not figure out how to filter the eager frame ...
let result = new_days_df
.lazy()
.filter(col("weekday diff eq(2)").eq(true))
.collect()
.unwrap();
// could not figure out how to access ROW elements
// thus I used "get" instead af of "get_row"
// getting the date where diff is == 2 (true)
let filtered_row = result.get(0).unwrap();
// within the filtered_row get element with an index
let date = filtered_row.get(0).unwrap();
println!("\n{:?}", date);
Ok(())
}