I initially viewed this article with skepticism, rather liking the functional style of the Tidyverse. However, the claims the author makes are entirely valid.

I initially viewed this article with skepticism, rather liking the functional style of the Tidyverse. However, the claims the author makes are entirely valid. Data table is a fantastic package, and easy to learn. Tidyverse really has split the R community in disparate sets of R users. To my mind, one of R’s greatest strengths is its meta programming capabilities. It is this that allows such broad paradigms to exist within the same language. In that, the challenges that R is presented with is similar to languages like Lisp dialects and Scala. I don’t have solutions, but the author has convinced me that a problem is indeed there.