While the tidy-verse and data.table are definitely game changers for R, it's still worth learning the basics. Often the packages make irritating tasks easy, tho

While the tidy-verse and data.table are definitely game changers for R, it's still worth learning the basics. Often the packages make irritating tasks easy, though they rarely touch the tasks that are easy in base R. I've seen some pretty convoluted dplyr from newcomers that could have been achieved in a single line without loading any packages.