Tidy R with the Tidyverse
Philippe De Brouwer · 2020
R is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) that implies that it is free to use. As most FOSS projects, R is also easy to expand. Tidyverse is both a collection of often used functionalities and a philosophy. It is in permanent development as core R itself and many other packages. Tidy data is in essence data that is easy to understand by people and is formatted and structured with the following rules in mind. The core tidyverse includes some packages that are commonly used in data wrangling and modelling. Tibbles are in many aspects a special type of data frames. The main advantagein using a tibble is that it will usually do things that make more sense for the modern R-user. Lazy evaluation is a feature of R that is introduced in R to make it faster in interactive mode.