Extract a dplyr tbl column as a vector

Question

Is there a more succinct way to get one column of a dplyr tbl as a vector, from a tbl with database back-end (i.e. the data frame/table can\'t be subset directly)?

Answer 1

@Luke1018 proposed this solution in one of the comments:

You can also use the magrittr exposition operator (%$%) to pull a vector from a data frame.

For example:

iris2 %>% select(Species) %>% collect() %$% Species

I thought it deserved its own answer.