paleolimbot commented on PR #34825: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/34825#issuecomment-1497655401
> IMO it would be a reasonable behavior to return a tibble unless (a) the tibble package is not installed, or (b) the user sets an option to specify that they want a plain old data.frame. I am against this solution because it does not solve the fact that `read_whatever()` might return a data.frame or a tibble and because it adds unnecessary complexity to our code base. The underlying problem is that this package is trying to be both user-facing (where tibbles are helpful since they print nicely in an interactive session) and developer-facing (where tibbles are unnecessary). I think this package should commit to be user-facing and let other packages like rpolars, nanoarrow, adbcdrivermanager provide interfaces that cater to developers/low-level users. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
