Eh, framework is a bit strong (if we're thinking about something like Ruby on Rails). You can easily mix dplyr and lubricate with base R things like for loops,

Eh, framework is a bit strong (if we're thinking about something like Ruby on Rails). You can easily mix dplyr and lubricate with base R things like for loops, subscripted assignments, low-level functions like grep, etc. I do it all the time. I agree that nonstandard evaluation can be tricky, but the nice notation you get is worth it IMHO, and at this point you can switch to standard evaluation in a number of convenient ways. My favorite way is to just use base R temporarily, since outside of modeling functions it mostly works by standard eval. And I think that's good advice in general. The best way to use the Tidyverse is to use it for what it's good at. And for things it's not so good at, use something else for a bit before coming back to it.