Character Encoding within the tidyverse

[mara]

Re. the aforequoted:

@pgensler

I shall look into it.

That was in response to your listing:

#want to unnest list to chr vector
options are:
  -flatten()
  -unnest()
  -unlist()
  -squash()
  -anything in purrr ?

@mara is is possible to get some clarity around when we should be using the above functions for what, and when?

I then disambiguated those functions, after conferring with @hadley and @jennybryan…

Split uneven length vectors to columns with tidyr

Pretty sure @nick covered all of this (and more), but, since I wrote it up anyway… unlist(), flatten(), and squash() unlist() base R generic that will take a list, x, and produce a vector with all atomic components of x output determined by highest type component in hierarchy NULL < raw < logical < integer < double < complex < character < list < expression flatten() both rlang::flatten() and rlang::squash() can turn a list of lists into a list or, simpler, type-stable vector flatten() only removes one level of hierarchy from a list purrr::flatten() applies as described above, but takes the argument .x the unsuffixed flatten() will return a list regardless of contents of input l…

I understand that said disambiguation wasn't the totality of your problem there, but I'm unsure as to why you're quoting that one line from me in re. this issue…