I found that several R and BioC packages using readr are simply using readr::type_convert(), readr::parse_date() and column specification tools only for converting ambiguous dataframes with appropriate column types (e.g. readODS, timetk, sergeant, unglue, surveytoolbox). While this package's main functionalities are reading rectangular text files, it is quite unnatural for many packages depending on readr but not for reading text files.

I was wondering would you consider spinning off these type inferencing tools from readr? Thank you very much!