[R-pkg-devel] tibbles are not data frames

[Joris Meys]

Where its parent class _sometimes_ returns an atomic vector and

> _sometimes_ returns a data frame.
>
> Hadley
>

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.

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