Tidyverse versus base R

[odonovan189]

Hello. I wonder if you could spend a bit of time talking about tidyverse versus base R. Thanks!

[jennybc]

Can you (or others) be more specific about the comparisons you are interested in? As in, "compare and contrast tidyverse versus base R with respect to FILL_IN_THIS_BLANK".

[odonovan189]

Whoops! I didn't mean to compare filter with subset in base --- just some general discussion about why would someone use tidyverse over the base functions in general. I know the code is a lot cleaner, but are there other reasons to make the leap? (I haven't used a lot of tidyverse functions so am just wondering!). Thank you.

[jennybc]

I chatted with @odonovan189.

This is a bit off-topic for WTF, so I propose that anyone interested in this ... we'll discuss over tomorrow's afternoon coffee break. I'm teaching the session right before that and am happy to grab a coffee and chat about this.

[odonovan189]

Perfect. Thank you!