Coerce a list to a vector — as

These functions were superseded in purrr 1.0.0 in favour of list_simplify() which has more consistent semantics based on vctrs principles:

as_vector(x) is now list_simplify(x)
simplify(x) is now list_simplify(x, strict = FALSE)
simplify_all(x) is map(x, list_simplify, strict = FALSE)

Superseded functions will not go away, but will only receive critical bug fixes.

Usage

as_vector(.x, .type = NULL)

simplify(.x, .type = NULL)

simplify_all(.x, .type = NULL)

Arguments

.x: A list of vectors
.type: Can be a vector mold specifying both the type and the length of the vectors to be concatenated, such as numeric(1) or integer(4). Alternatively, it can be a string describing the type, one of: "logical", "integer", "double", "complex", "character" or "raw".

Examples

# was
as.list(letters) |> as_vector("character")
#>  [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" "k" "l" "m" "n" "o" "p" "q"
#> [18] "r" "s" "t" "u" "v" "w" "x" "y" "z"
# now
as.list(letters) |> list_simplify(ptype = character())
#>  [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" "k" "l" "m" "n" "o" "p" "q"
#> [18] "r" "s" "t" "u" "v" "w" "x" "y" "z"

# was:
list(1:2, 3:4, 5:6) |> as_vector(integer(2))
#> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
# now:
list(1:2, 3:4, 5:6) |> list_c(ptype = integer())
#> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6