From ea6b419cb1d9b3e24c6ebd44173320a0e7a33ccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: olivroy <olivierroy71@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 16:07:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Make gtsave return file path invisibly.

---
 NEWS.md       | 2 ++
 R/export.R    | 7 +++++--
 man/gtsave.Rd | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index f57ddf849f..c799a5237b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 * The performance of rendering bigger tables as HTML has been improved and is now up to 3 times faster than before (@mgirlich, #1470).
 
+* `gtsave()` now returns the file path invisibly instead of `TRUE` (@olivroy, #1478).
+
 # gt 0.10.0
 
 ## Nanoplots
diff --git a/R/export.R b/R/export.R
index 1abd2f13b5..68563f9328 100644
--- a/R/export.R
+++ b/R/export.R
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 #'
 #'   All other options passed to the appropriate internal saving function.
 #'
-#' @return Invisibly returns `TRUE` if the export process is successful.
+#' @return The file name (invisibly) if the export process is successful.
 #'
 #' @section Examples:
 #'
@@ -217,8 +217,11 @@ gtsave <- function(
       ))
     }
   )
+  if (!is.null(path)) {
+    filename <- file.path(path, filename)
+  }
 
-  invisible(TRUE)
+  invisible(filename)
 }
 
 #' Saving function for an HTML file
diff --git a/man/gtsave.Rd b/man/gtsave.Rd
index 35c2781134..a851236378 100644
--- a/man/gtsave.Rd
+++ b/man/gtsave.Rd
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ An optional path to which the file should be saved (combined with
 All other options passed to the appropriate internal saving function.}
 }
 \value{
-Invisibly returns \code{TRUE} if the export process is successful.
+The file name (invisibly) if the export process is successful.
 }
 \description{
 The \code{gtsave()} function makes it easy to save a \strong{gt} table to a file. The