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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="https://rud.is/b/2017/12/01/a-public-apology-to-tal-r-bloggers-the-trouble-with-tibbles/"> R – rud.is</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>Over the past few weeks, I had been noticing that some posts in the R-bloggers feed were getting truncated in Feedly. I don’t remember when I noticed that since I usually click through immediately from the headline entry to the R-bloggers page vs read in Feedly since ultimately I want to get to the author’s site to see it formatted they way they intended it to be.</p>
<p>I let frustration get the better of me and — without verifying with Tal first — tweeted in error in said frustration. I’m not going to perform an extensive validation on the R-Bloggers feed always pushing out full content as Tal say they do. </p>
<p>Tal (and any other folks who work with Tal on R-Bloggers): I apologize for the tweet content and the tone of the tweet, but more apologize for not reaching out directly as if I had the following would have likely emerged after dual investigations. So, I’m really daft on at least two accounts. I will also apologize again, in-person, if we manage to cross paths in 2018. Hopefully said apology will be over a delightful beverage (on me — well, hopefully you won’t <em>actually</em> dump said beverage on me, but you’d be right to do so). </p>
<p>The truncated posts (anyone with Feedly can likely validate my experience) seems to be a combination of issues with a common thread: the <em>tibble</em>. I’m going to use the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/tibble-1-2-0/" target="_blank">tibble 1.2.0 post</a> [R-Bloggers link] from RStudio as an example. I have to use pictures (apologies), but you’ll see why in a bit.</p>
<h2>The Trouble With Tibbles</h2>
<p>This is a snap from the early part of the aforementioned post:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tibble_1_2_0___RStudio_Blog.png?ssl=1" target="_blank"><img data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tibble_1_2_0___RStudio_Blog.png?fit=1608%2C719&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1608,719" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tibble_1_2_0___RStudio_Blog.png?fit=300%2C134&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="7360" data-image-meta="{" data-image-description="" src="https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tibble_1_2_0___RStudio_Blog.png?resize=780%2C349&ssl=1" data-permalink="https://rud.is/b/2017/12/01/a-public-apology-to-tal-r-bloggers-the-trouble-with-tibbles/tibble_1_2_0___rstudio_blog/" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tibble_1_2_0___RStudio_Blog.png?fit=530%2C237&amp;ssl=1" alt="" data-image-title="tibble_1_2_0___RStudio_Blog" data-comments-opened="1" class="wp-image-7360" data-recalc-dims="1"></a></p>
<p>Here’s that content on R-Bloggers:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://i2.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tibble_1_2_0___R-bloggers.png?ssl=1" target="_blank"><img data-orig-file="https://i2.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tibble_1_2_0___R-bloggers.png?fit=912%2C498&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="912,498" data-medium-file="https://i2.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tibble_1_2_0___R-bloggers.png?fit=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="7361" data-image-meta="{" data-image-description="" src="https://i2.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tibble_1_2_0___R-bloggers.png?resize=456%2C249&ssl=1" data-permalink="https://rud.is/b/2017/12/01/a-public-apology-to-tal-r-bloggers-the-trouble-with-tibbles/tibble_1_2_0___r-bloggers/" data-large-file="https://i2.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tibble_1_2_0___R-bloggers.png?fit=530%2C289&amp;ssl=1" alt="" data-image-title="tibble_1_2_0___R-bloggers" data-comments-opened="1" class="wp-image-7361" data-recalc-dims="1"></a></p>
<p>Now you get to play that favorite childhood game of yours: spot the difference.</p>
<p>You should notice the angle-bracket type headers are missing on R-Bloggers version of the post. </p>
<p>While they are <em>visually</em> missing, they are not — in fact — missing. They are there:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/https___www_r-bloggers_com_tibble-1-2-0_.png?ssl=1" target="_blank"><img data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/https___www_r-bloggers_com_tibble-1-2-0_.png?fit=862%2C910&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="862,910" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/https___www_r-bloggers_com_tibble-1-2-0_.png?fit=284%2C300&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="7362" data-image-meta="{" data-image-description="" src="https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/https___www_r-bloggers_com_tibble-1-2-0_.png?resize=431%2C455&ssl=1" data-permalink="https://rud.is/b/2017/12/01/a-public-apology-to-tal-r-bloggers-the-trouble-with-tibbles/https___www_r-bloggers_com_tibble-1-2-0_/" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/https___www_r-bloggers_com_tibble-1-2-0_.png?fit=530%2C560&amp;ssl=1" alt="" data-image-title="https___www_r-bloggers_com_tibble-1-2-0_" data-comments-opened="1" class="wp-image-7362" data-recalc-dims="1"></a></p>
<p>But, HTML wonks have likely already figured out the issue.</p>
<p>Here’s what the source view from RStudio’s blog looks like:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://i2.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/https___blog_rstudio_com_2016_08_29_tibble-1-2-0_.png?ssl=1" target="_blank"><img data-orig-file="https://i2.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/https___blog_rstudio_com_2016_08_29_tibble-1-2-0_.png?fit=896%2C768&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="896,768" data-medium-file="https://i2.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/https___blog_rstudio_com_2016_08_29_tibble-1-2-0_.png?fit=300%2C257&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="7363" data-image-meta="{" data-image-description="" src="https://i2.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/https___blog_rstudio_com_2016_08_29_tibble-1-2-0_.png?resize=448%2C384&ssl=1" data-permalink="https://rud.is/b/2017/12/01/a-public-apology-to-tal-r-bloggers-the-trouble-with-tibbles/https___blog_rstudio_com_2016_08_29_tibble-1-2-0_/" data-large-file="https://i2.wp.com/rud.is/b/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/https___blog_rstudio_com_2016_08_29_tibble-1-2-0_.png?fit=530%2C454&amp;ssl=1" alt="" data-image-title="https___blog_rstudio_com_2016_08_29_tibble-1-2-0_" data-comments-opened="1" class="wp-image-7363" data-recalc-dims="1"></a></p>
<p>One more opportunity to play “spot the difference”.</p>
<p>That difference can wreak havoc with further HTML/XML post-processors (inspect the elements in different browsers or via <code>rvest</code>/<code>xml2</code>) and it seems Feedly’s ingestion process is doing the truncation when it hits invalid HTML.</p>
<p>This means that tibble output will likely cause more posts to be truncated in feed viewers pulling from R-Bloggers (I verified this with a sample of other, recent posts that I knew used tibble output).</p>
<p>Both R-Bloggers and Feedly should work on said issues. I’ll be pinging Feedly and I’m sure after I tweet this post out Tal will see it.</p>
<h2>FIN</h2>
<p>Tal: I promise to bring up any further issues with you directly and re-iterate my apology one more time.</p>
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