Re: [BUG] ob-R.el: extra empty data.frame columns generated from plain lists after recent change [9.6 (release_9.6-3-ga4d38e @ /usr/share/emacs/30.0.50/lisp/org/)]

[Greg Minshall]

Ihor,

> Does it make sense from the point of view of R code?
> AFAIU, the current ob-R implementation converts lists into R tables,
> which is not accurate? Would it make sense to convert Elisp lists into R
> lists directly?

my "barely half a cent" would be that backwards compatibility here
trumps, hmm, "logic".  i suspect a note in the wiki page for ob-R
stating that lists are converted to single-column tables would be
sufficient.  (partly because i think people writing code need to refer
to such pages to understand these sorts of mappings.)

(one could make the case that "no one" passes lists to R code; that
could push *me* towards your suggestion.)

cheers, Greg