I agree, the degree of expressiveness that dplyr achieves is impressive. The library has had a great impact on my work. The syntax is easy to remember so you do

I agree, the degree of expressiveness that dplyr achieves is impressive. The library has had a great impact on my work. The syntax is easy to remember so you don't have to constantly look up minor variations in usage. Also, the pipelining aspect makes it dead-simple to debug. It's especially powerful when combined with the purrr library: https://purrr.tidyverse.org/ https://purrr.tidyverse.org/