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dplyr is an "advanced" topic? It's, like, the easiest data manipulation library in any language.
by antipaul 7y ago
dplyr is an "advanced" topic?
It's, like, the easiest data manipulation library in any language.
- cwyers 7y agoPeople who were big into R pre-Tidyverse have this tendency to view the way they manipulated data frames pre-Tidyverse as the "basics," and Tidyverse as the "advanced" method. I think it does anyone learning R for the first time an incredible disservice, for the reason you state: dplyr is fantastic. But the old guard is (rightly) afraid that if people start with dplyr, they'll never get around to learning what base R provides for manipulating data frames. Which is good in my view, and nobody should have to learn that.