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Yup, my first thought too. Though presumably different roots - player and pliers. There's also another stringr (crowdsourced video content platform) and caret (
by _deh 12y ago
Yup, 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)."