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James Lamb commented on ARROW-6337:
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[~npr] I'd be happy to. I'll try to get it in tonight, if not I can definitely
do it tomorrow.
Thanks!
> [R] as_tibble in R API is a misnomer
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> Key: ARROW-6337
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6337
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: R
> Reporter: James Lamb
> Priority: Minor
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> As of ARROW-5190, the R package's dependency on *tibble* has been moved from
> *Imports* to *Suggests*. However, this signature of *read_parquet(),
> read_delim_arrow(), read_json_arrow(),* and *read_feather()* all still have
> an argument called "as_tibble".
> Per [this
> comment|[https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/4454#issuecomment-500563214],]
> the argument "as_tibble" is a misnomer. If that argument is given a TRUE,
> those functions will return a data.frame, not a tibble. I agree with Neal's
> comment...I think that instead of changing return type based on a boolean, it
> would be better for all the *read_** functions to return a data.frame and for
> other types of operations to get their own functions.
> I think it's important to consider this type of user-facing breaking change
> _now_ while the R package's version is still 0.x.
> As always, thanks for hearing me out!
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