Back to Basics with Tibbles

Sometimes we might wish for the old days be back and want to work with familiar objects. This function helps to convert tibbles to data.frames as smoothly as possible.

Usage

toBaseR(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'tbl_df'
toBaseR(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'haven_labelled'
toBaseR(x, ...)

# Default S3 method
toBaseR(x, ...)

Arguments

x

the object to be converted.

...

arguments passed on.

Value

converted object.

See also

Other data.coerce: as.array.xtabs(), type-aliases

Examples

# a tibble is rolled back to a plain data.frame
if (requireNamespace("tibble", quietly = TRUE)) {
  tbl <- tibble::as_tibble(head(iris))
  class(toBaseR(tbl))
}
#> [1] "data.frame"

# an object without a method is returned unchanged, with a warning
x <- suppressWarnings(toBaseR(1:3))
identical(x, 1:3)
#> [1] TRUE

# \donttest{
# labelled data from other statistical packages: needs 'haven' and
# an internet connection, hence the try()
if (requireNamespace("haven", quietly = TRUE)) {
  url <- "http://www.stata.com/videos13/data/webclass.dta"
  d.webclass <- try(toBaseR(haven::read_dta(url)))
}
# }