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Thank you for your reply and all your work. I probably should have phrased my comment better. My point was that it’s perfectly possible to use ggplot without e

Thank you for your reply and all your work. I probably should have phrased my comment better. My point was that it’s perfectly possible to use ggplot without explicit knowledge of tidy principles or tibbles. This is great! And for example, I’m reading through your ggplot book and it doesn’t make reference to it.[1] In my work, we use data.tables (we believe we need the raw performance) with ggplot for visualization and are not using the rest of tidyverse and it works fine. [1]: In recent versions this seems to be slowly changing.

hadley 7y ago
Pretty much all of the individual components of the tidyverse were created before the tidyverse since it’s only 3 years old. But there’s no reason to use only the tidyverse. That’s not something I’ve ever recommended and it would be extremely hard. I just object to people claiming that some of the most important parts of the tidyverse aren’t actually parts of it.