Should write_xlsx() return file invisibly?

[olivroy]

Similar to many write_ functions in R, should write_xlsx() return file invisbly?

This is an unlikely workflow imo, but it currently works

write_xlsx(mtcars, file = temp_xlsx())$add_worksheet("test")$open()

Edit: I tend to use a lot workflows like

readr::write_csv(mtcars, file = "file.csv")
fs::file_show(.Last.value)

Edit2: I guess you may do write_xlsx(mtcars, file = "file.xlsx")$open(), but it is openxlsx2-specific.

[JanMarvin]

Don't really have an opinion. You can use $path() iirc

[JanMarvin]

Moved this to a discussion. Unless for testing I don't use write_xlsx(), hence personally I don't really care. Afaik we simply inherited this from openxlsx. But it behaves like this for quite some time already. And unless some more people want this, I don't think it's worth bricking things just to behave like some other package.