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AS someone that programs in R plyr is a major library for manipulating languages. It is one of the most popular libraries in use for R. https://github.com/hadl
by baldfat 12y ago
AS someone that programs in R plyr is a major library for manipulating languages. It is one of the most popular libraries in use for R.
https://github.com/hadley/plyr https://github.com/hadley/plyr
- _deh 12y agoYup, my first thought too. Though presumably different roots - player and pliers. There's also another stringr (crowdsourced video content platform) and caret (text editing for Chrome).
- aflam 12y agoNow dplyr has pretty much replaced it with better syntax and perf. Take a look at it. https://github.com/hadley/dplyr https://github.com/hadley/dplyr
- perturbation 12y agoOne thing I've been curious about with R: Why is it that popular libraries in R are replaced with other names when enhanced? I.e., plyr->dplyr, reshape->reshape2, etc.? Is it a namespacing thing? I guess if there's not a universally accepted way of versioning library imports that would explain it as well.
- baldfat 12y agoplyr does more than dplyr (I perfer dplyr) reshape does more than reshape2 which does more than tidyr They actually get more refined and are different creatures with similar features and not different versions.
- hyperbovine 12y ago"dplyr is the next iteration of plyr, focussed on tools for working with data frames (hence the d in the name)."
- psychometry 12y agoYou'd think that someone choosing a name for a new technology product would do a single google search first, yet time and time again we end up with these collisions. There should be a central repository mapping names to services that we can use to look up potential names.
- sampotts 12y agoI'll admit, I did little research other than looking for media players using the same name. There's only so many relevant words or variations of words I could use.