id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,active_lock_reason,draft,pull_request,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,state_reason,repo,type
252490115,MDU6SXNzdWUyNTI0OTAxMTU=,1519,Assignment,946903,open,0,,,6,2017-08-24T05:22:13Z,2022-05-02T13:41:37Z,,CONTRIBUTOR,,,,"Assignment of individual elements / subsets seems to be only partially supported, but I have not found clear documentation on it. After playing a bit around with xarray I believe the current support boils down to the following (I list some issues I see with the current documentation and how things seem to work).

**DataSet**
- Change a element in a associated DataArray
  - `ds.loc[selector_dict].NAME_OF_VARIABLE = -1` Doesn't work but at least throws an error (`Use __setitem__ style assignment (e.g., ds['name'] = ...) instead to assign variables.`)
  - `ds.loc[selector_dict][""NAME_OF_VARIABLE""] = -1` Silently fails
    - Is it possible to throw an exception as well? I believe this usage variant is ""more common"", as `NAME_OF_VARIABLE` may only be known at runtime. #974 May fix this (?).
  - Same goes for `ds.sel`

**DataArray**
(Can be obtained via ds['name'])
- Using `.sel` (which is documented to return a new DataArray, so arguably it's expected not to work)
  - `ds[""NAME_OF_VARIABLE""].sel(**selector_dict) = -1` Invalid python syntax
  - `ds[""NAME_OF_VARIABLE""].sel(**selector_dict).values = -1` Silently fails
- Using `.loc`
  - `ds[""NAME_OF_VARIABLE""].loc[selector_dict] = -1` works

Is this the recommended behaviour? Then I believe the wrong pattern of `ds.loc[selector_dict][""NAME_OF_VARIABLE""] = -1` should be documented and `ds[NAME_OF_VARIABLE].loc[selector_dict] = -1` instead suggested.","{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1519/reactions"", ""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,,13221727,issue
252247202,MDExOlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0MTM3MTkyNTE4,1516,Small documentation fixes,946903,closed,0,,,1,2017-08-23T11:21:00Z,2020-05-01T01:42:15Z,2017-08-25T05:24:38Z,CONTRIBUTOR,,0,pydata/xarray/pulls/1516,"- Clarify in documentation that inferring DataArray dimensions from dictionary like ``coords`` has been deprecated.
- DataArray docstring","{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1516/reactions"", ""total_count"": 2, ""+1"": 2, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,,13221727,pull