Different return types for selecting columns from a tibble

tibble_select_column.R

# create a tibble----------------------
tbl <- tibble::tibble(x = letters[1:5],
                      y = letters[5:1])

# returns a tibble --------------------
dplyr::select(tbl, x) 

tbl[1] 

tbl[, 1] 

tbl["x"]

tbl[, "x"]

subset(tbl, select = "x")

# returns a vector --------------------
dplyr::pull(tbl, x) 

tbl[, 1, drop = TRUE] 

tbl[[1]] 

tbl[, "x", drop = TRUE]

tbl[["x"]]

tbl$x