Section 2.1 Introduction
Just like Spider-Man, we are going to enter a new universe in R: the
tidyverse!
This chapter introduces the
tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to make data analysis more readable, consistent, and reproducible. The tools introduced here will be used repeatedly throughout the remainder of this textbook, forming the backbone of nearly every analysis we perform.
As discussed in the last chapter, R comes with prebuilt functions, but what makes R so dynamic and powerful is the ability to install and use different libraries. Few have been as impactful or as widely used as the
tidyverse package. Now, of course, you can use R however you would like, as your programming style is totally up to you. The tidyverse, however, has been unofficially accepted as the major dialect of R.
