tibble's reference documentation should be updated to explictedly state how to deal with matrices

[mccroweyclinton-EPA]

library(magrittr)
library(tibble)
cat("Tibble's reference documentation states that it works similarly to
     base::data.frame() but it actually has different behaviour for matrices")
cat ("\n\nCan tibble::tibble() take matries as inputs? Yes it can but the
      resulting tibble is much different than what is expected, here are the
      dimensions of installed.packages() when converted to a tibble using
     tibble()\n")
installed.packages() %>% tibble() %>% dim() %>% cat()

cat("\n\nNotice how the number of dimensions is different than when calling
     base::data.frame()
     \n")
installed.packages() %>% data.frame() %>% dim() %>% cat()

cat("\n\nI think that the correct way to convert maticies to a tibble is by
     using the as_tibble() function but the tibble reference documentation
     (?tibble::tibble) does not mention this. If tibble() behaves differently
     for matrices than base::data.frame() then the tibble reference doc should
     explictedly say so and it should direct users to use as_tibble() instead.
     \n")
installed.packages() %>% as_tibble() %>% dim() %>% cat()

[krlmlr]

Thanks, good point. Would you like to submit a pull request?

Also: What happens if we pass a data frame (named or unnamed) to data.frame() and tibble?

[mccroweyclinton-EPA]

I have not submitted a Pull Request. The amount of time that it will take to receive approval to submit code to an outside organization would be far to long for such a trivial change.

As far as data.frame -> tibble using the tibble() function, it seems as if the function works as expected.

library(tibble)
library(stringi)

set.seed(10)


tb <- data.frame("Numbers" = 1:10,
                 "Letters" = letters[1:10],
                 "Random" = runif(n=10),
                 "Loreum_Ipsum" = stri_rand_lipsum(n_paragraphs=10, start_lipsum = FALSE),
                 "Sys.time" = Sys.time()
                 )


tb2 <- tibble(tb)
```r

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