State of the Tidyverse 2020
summary
Tidyverse adoption continues to grow with cumulative downloads rising year over year and a published citation already hitting 17 citations in two months. Community work totals 236 unique contributors. Major engineering deliverables: dplyr 1.0 reimplementation, vroom (fast, lazy CSV ingest that uses C++11 and altrep and multi‑threading), vctrs for consistent column types, and the tidymodels suite gaining production traction. Tidy evaluation gets simplified via embracing (double parentheses) and a clear function life cycle—stable, questioning, superseded, deprecated, experimental—so migration paths like pivot_longer/wider replace spread/gather.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:44Package downloads
- 1:34Team
- 2:02Community
- 3:21Highlights
- 7:16Things to look for
- 8:15Less per
- 9:33Tidy Evaluation
- 10:48Mistakes
- 12:38Awareness
- 13:27Function Life Cycle
- 15:44Deprecated vs superseded
- 18:37Experimental functions
- 20:00Questions
