`httr::content` gives different default than `jsonlite::fromJSON`

muschellij2 commented 3 years ago

httr::content gives different default than jsonlite::fromJSON as seen below as httr::content uses simplifyVector = FALSE by default as per https://github.com/r-lib/httr/blob/80cb625117629105874d58a234f061b458eefbe6/R/content-parse.r#L75.

res = httr::GET("https://discovery.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis")
x = httr::content(res, encoding = "UTF-8")
class(x$items)
#> [1] "list"

x = httr::content(res, 
                  simplifyVector = TRUE)
class(x$items)
#> [1] "data.frame"

x = jsonlite::fromJSON(
  httr::content(res, as = "text"))
class(x$items)
#> [1] "data.frame"

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muschellij2 commented 3 years ago

"Fixed" by updating the docs via https://github.com/r-lib/httr/pull/698

persep commented 2 years ago

It's not in the docs anymore in github/master content.Rd branch or in CRAN's version 1.4.4.

Shouldn't it be easier to just leave the default to TRUE like in jsonlite:fromJSON ?

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`httr::content` gives different default than `jsonlite::fromJSON` #699