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You’re being downvoted but it’s true - R would be dead today if not for the tidyverse (both because of ease-of-use and fostered community). The experience betw
by jwilber 4y ago
You’re being downvoted but it’s true - R would be dead today if not for the tidyverse (both because of ease-of-use and fostered community).
The experience between using the two is night-and-day. I would rather use the cli than base R at this point, and am convinced that the only proponents of base R over the tidyverse haven’t tried the latter for themselves.
- civilized 4y agoThank you. In reading the author's tidyverse critique, I think he has some valid points. It is wonderful that you can do so much with just vectors in base R, and this may be better for true beginners with no coding background. I do not agree with hiding vectors and subscripts and attempting to indoctrinate students with very pure and abstract coding approaches - as it seems to be alleged that some tidyverse advocates do. But "dplyr is bad" is just an awful take, and "dplyr is bad for beginners" is no better. These are just about the worst takes you could have about modern R programming.