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The core of the problem is that the tidyverse is trying to turn R into a user-friendly real-time calculator, rather than a tool for stable, deterministic, and l
by Mairoce 3mo ago
The core of the problem is that the tidyverse is trying to turn R into a user-friendly real-time calculator, rather than a tool for stable, deterministic, and literate data analysis.
- levocardia 3mo ago"The real problem with this package is that it makes things easy, instead of hard"
- Mairoce 3mo agoThat’s a rather glib interpretation of what I said. I’m being rather charitable when I call the tidyverse “user-friendly”. That might be the goal of tidyverse devs, but it hasn’t been the reality since inception. The point is even if we assume it is or will eventually become user-friendly, are we willing to accept the trade-offs that come with that?
- dash2 3mo agoI think the users have clearly delivered the verdict that it is friendlier than base R. Admittedly a low bar. Non R users, which do you prefer: foo[foo$bar == “baz”,] foo |> filter(bar == “baz”) ?