

Piping operators (like %$% and %%) that can be useful in other places. It also provide a number of more specialised

Purrr, which provides very consistent and natural methods for iterating on R objects, there are two additional tidyverse packages that help with general programming challenges:

Readr, for reading flat files, the tidyverse package installs a number of other packages for reading data: They are not loaded automatically with library(tidyverse), so you’ll need to load each one with its own call to library(). The tidyverse also includes many other packages with more specialised usage. R uses factors to handle categorical variables, variables that have a fixed and known set of possible values. Forcats provides a suite of useful tools that solve common problems with factors.
