Exploring R’s tidyverse
A new approach has rapidly taken shape as the dominant paradigm for working with data in R. Championed by Hadley Wickham—the mind behind many of the packages that drove much of R’s initial surge in popularity—this new wave is now backed by a much larger team at Posit (formerly known as RStudio). The company’s user-friendly RStudio Desktop application integrates nicely into this new ecosystem, known as the tidyverse, because it provides a universe of packages devoted to tidy data. The entire suite of tidyverse packages can be installed with the install.packages("tidyverse")
command.
A growing number of resources are available online to learn more about the tidyverse, starting with its homepage at https://www.tidyverse.org. Here, you can learn about the various packages included in the set, a few of which will be described in this chapter. Additionally, the book R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham and Garrett...