Chapter 7 tidyverse

From the tidyverse website:

The tidyverse is an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science. All packages share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures.

The tidyverse includes the following packages:

• ggplot2 - provides a system for creating graphics based on The Grammar of Graphics
• dplyr - provides functions for data manipulation
• tidyr - provides functions that help you turn your data into tidy data
• readr - provides fast functions for reading data from files
• forcats - provides functions for working with factors
• tibble - provides an alternative data structure (a tibble) to the data frame
• stringr - provides functions for working with strings
• purrr - provides tools for working with functions and vectors

Install the tidyverse collection of packages using:

install.packages("tidyverse")

While all of the tidyverse is useful for working with data (and worth spending time to learn), we’ll focus on the dplyr, tidyr, and ggplot2 packages.