On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Joris Meys <joris.m...@ugent.be> wrote: > Where its parent class _sometimes_ returns an atomic vector and >> >> _sometimes_ returns a data frame. > > Indeed. And a tibble doesn't, so there's a conflict. Nobody said data.frame > works better than tibble. Actually, we all agree that the legacy behaviour > sucks. But it exists, and causes conflicts when users expect a tibble to > behave the same as a data.frame. > > It does not.
So we should never try and improve upon legacy behaviour? I don't understand what you're arguing for here. If a tibble didn't inherit from a data frame, it would be useless. Hadley -- http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
