If you don't think base R is kinda terrible then I recommend you read R Inferno. It's truly a crazy language with enough footguns for a centipede. A lot of the

If you don't think base R is kinda terrible then I recommend you read R Inferno. It's truly a crazy language with enough footguns for a centipede. A lot of the attraction to the tidyverse is having sane defaults and consistent APIs that help you do the right thing quickly.