Add an as_tibble method for class lints

NEWS.md

@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@
   Thanks to Yihui and other developers for their helpful discussions around this issue (#797, @IndrajeetPatil).
 
 * The output of `lint()` and `Lint()` gain S3 class `"list"` to assist with S3 dispatch (#1494, @MichaelChirico)
+  + As a corollary, we now register an `as_tibble` method for class `lints`, conditional on {tibble} availability, to avoid dispatching to the `list` method which does not work with `lint()` output (#1997, @MichaelChirico)
 
 * `object_usage_linter()` gives a more helpful warning when a `glue()` expression fails to evaluate (#1985, @MichaelChirico)
 

R/methods.R

@@ -173,6 +173,14 @@ as.data.frame.lints <- function(x, row.names = NULL, optional = FALSE, ...) { #
   )
 }
 
+as_tibble.lints <- function(x, ..., # nolint: object_name_linter.
+                            .rows = NULL,
+                            .name_repair = c("check_unique", "unique", "universal", "minimal"),
+                            rownames = NULL) {
+  stopifnot(requireNamespace("tibble", quietly = TRUE))
+  tibble::as_tibble(as.data.frame(x), ..., .rows = .rows, .name_repair = .name_repair, rownames = rownames)
+}
+
 #' @export
 `[.lints` <- function(x, ...) {
   attrs <- attributes(x)

R/zzz.R

@@ -326,6 +326,9 @@ settings <- NULL
   )
 
   settings <<- list2env(default_settings, parent = emptyenv())
-  invisible()
+
+  if (requireNamespace("tibble", quietly = TRUE)) {
+    registerS3method("as_tibble", "lints", as_tibble.lints, asNamespace("tibble"))
+  }
 }
 # nocov end

tests/testthat/test-methods.R

@@ -148,3 +148,11 @@ test_that("within.list is dispatched", {
   })
   expect_identical(vapply(l, `[[`, integer(1L), "line_number"), 2L:3L)
 })
+
+test_that("as_tibble.list is _not_ dispatched directly", {
+  skip_if_not_installed("tibble")
+  expect_identical(
+    nrow(tibble::as_tibble(lint(text = "a = 1", linters = assignment_linter()))),
+    1L
+  )
+})