Thank 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, an

Thank 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.