2.3 Tidyverse core packages
The following 8 packages are included in the core tidyverse version 1.3.0.9000 (current version in April 2021):
- Data Import and Management
- tibble
- readr
- Data Wrangling (Tyding and Transformation)
- dplyr
- tidyr
- stringr
- forcats
- Data Visualization and Exploration
- ggplot2
- Functional Programming
- purrr
| logo | name | description |
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dplyr | Package for data manipulation and exploratory data analysis. |
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tidyr | Package that aims at creating tidy data. Tidy data describe a standard way of storing data. |
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stringr | Package that provides a set of functions for user-friendly string manipulation. |
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forcats | Package that helps you deal with factors |
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readr | Package for fast and efficient import and export of data. |
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tibble | Tibbles are improved - easier to manage - data frames. |
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purrr | Package that aims at enhancing R’s functional programming toolkit. It provides a set of tools for working with functions and vectors. |
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ggplot2 | Package for data vizualization of graphics based on Leland Wilkinson’s’ Grammar of Graphics: graphics are built one layer at a time. |