db.absences.insert([
           { "_id" : 1, "student" : "Ann Aardvark", sickdays: [ new Date ("2018-05-01"),new Date ("2018-08-23") ] },
           { "_id" : 2, "student" : "Zoe Zebra", sickdays: [ new Date ("2018-02-01"),new Date ("2018-05-23") ] },
        ])

    db.holidays.insert([
       { "_id" : 1, year: 2018, name: "New Years", date: new Date("2018-01-01") },
       { "_id" : 2, year: 2018, name: "Pi Day", date: new Date("2018-03-14") },
       { "_id" : 3, year: 2018, name: "Ice Cream Day", date: new Date("2018-07-15") },
       { "_id" : 4, year: 2017, name: "New Years", date: new Date("2017-01-01") },
       { "_id" : 5, year: 2017, name: "Ice Cream Day", date: new Date("2017-07-16") }
    ])

db.absences.aggregate([
   {
      $lookup:
         {
           from: "holidays",
           pipeline: [
              { $match: { year: 2018 } },
              { $project: { _id: 0, date: { name: "$name", date: "$date" } } },
              { $replaceRoot: { newRoot: "$date" } }
           ],
           as: "holidays"
         }
    }
])

аюсь использовать конвейер в поиске запроса агрегации. Имея это так же, как из документации Mongodb, он по-прежнему выдает ошибку

Unable to execute the selected commands

Mongo Server error (MongoCommandException): Command failed with error 4570: 'arguments to $lookup must be strings, pipeline: [ { $match: { year: 2018.0 } }, { $project: { _id: 0.0, date: { name: "$name", date: "$date" } } }, { $replaceRoot: { newRoot: "$date" } } ] is type array' on server localhost:27017. 

The full response is:
{ 
    "ok" : 0.0, 
    "errmsg" : "arguments to $lookup must be strings, pipeline: [ { $match: { year: 2018.0 } }, { $project: { _id: 0.0, date: { name: \"$name\", date: \"$date\" } } }, { $replaceRoot: { newRoot: \"$date\" } } ] is type array", 
    "code" : NumberInt(4570), 
    "codeName" : "Location4570"
}

Я использую mongodb v3.4.