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The tidyverse

The tidyverse

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The tidyverse

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- [Instructor] One of the fascinating things about packages is that packages can contain other packages. It's this complete self-referential, self-inclusive thing. One of the most important packages that you can install in R, which dramatically changes the way that you work with it and improves the functionality, is a package that includes what is called the Tidyverse. Now, this is kind of a funny name. It refers to an article written by very prominent R developer, Hadley Wickham, several years ago about tidy data. And it talks about setting up your data sets so you have each variable as a column, each observation or case as a row, and making it really easy to import. Well, this became sort of an umbrella term. In fact, if you go to the Comprehensive R Archive Network for packages and you search by name, these are all the packages that have tidy in their name because they are playing off of what was found to be such a…

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