Section 11 The Tidyverse
The Tidyverse (Wickham et al. 2019), (Wickham 2019b) is a collection of R packages designed for data science.
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We’ll be using tidyverse packages quite a lot from now on. Install the package with the command
install.packages("tidyverse")When you run the command
library(tidyverse)this will load the packages ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, readr, purr, tibble, stringr, forcats. There are other packages included in the tidyverse installation which need loading explicitly if you want to use them, e.g. readxl.
If you want to use the :: syntax with a ‘tidyverse
function’, you have to know which package within the tidyverse the
function belongs to. For example, the command
library(tidyverse) will enable you to use the
read_csv() command, but this command is actually part of
the readr package within the tidyverse, so the correct
syntax would be readr::read_csv(), not
tidyverse::read_csv().