str_split simplify in mutate with native pipe - potentially untidy behaviour

[brendan]

In the below example we see that using str_split(..., simplify = TRUE) |> _[2] within a mutate call requires a rowwise statement to produce the expected output. I assume this is because simplify produces a character matrix rather than vector of strings.

Is this expected behaviour? If so it might be useful to have an unlist argument analogue of simplify which produces a vector of strings rather than a character matrix. I.e. the two would be equivalent: str_split(..., unlist = TRUE) & str_split(...) |> unlist() . As I'm typing this I am realising that this is the latter is actually more succinct 😅, so feel free to close this if this is expected behaviour

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[Hadley Wickham]

Maybe you want str_split_1() or str_split_i()?