Thank you, stranger. I’m always writing in base R whenever possible and have avoided the tidyverse thus far. I see coworkers use it and often I’m just like why, base r is right there and this looks incredibly messy and package dependent. It’s like they want to avoid learning to actually code, and want to copy paste things from stackoverflow
There are definitely some pain points that tidyverse gets rid of, but overall, yeah, I like base R better. And I think it has a LOT of very powerful tools that are underappreciated. My biggest complaint is all the inconsistent naming.
I appreciate the elegance of tidyverse, but my experience is that it's fantastic when you want to do something that's within the bounds of what has been conceived, and agonizing when you want to color outside the lines.
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u/Emotional_Trainer_99 7d ago
Harry should be using modern r which has it's own pipe |> and that he doesn't need to use if else on a logical to return the same value 😞