Tidyverse The tidyverse, developed by Hadley Wickham is an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science. All packages share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures.

• Install the complete tidyverse with: install.packages("tidyverse")
• Main packages in the tidyverse are: ggplot2 (visualising data), dplyr (manipulating data), tidyr (tidying data), stringr (working with strings), lubridate(work with date/times), Data import: readr (reading .csv and fwf files), readxl (reading .xls and .xlsx files), haven (SAS, SPSS, and Stata files), httr (talking to web APIs), rvest (scraping websites), xml2 (importing XML files).

• Wickham, Hadley, and Garrett Grolemund. 2017. R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data. 1 edition. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.[Book website]