@@Destroyedconcrete As a developer, simpler is better. You want code that is easy to debug, easy to understand, and that will stand the test of time. Just using one command of tidyverse in an R package commits you to its ridiculously large number of dependencies which makes your code less stable. As for ggplot, it produces beautiful figures very quickly, but for EDA purposes you don't often need that and you will end up wasting time. Especially if you want to tweak your plot in any way that is different. As a newbie, you might appreciate the ease at which you can generate high quality graphics and the seemingly easy way to manipulate data with tidy verse, but as you get more advanced you will recognize them as being overly complicated.
Thank you
This is excellent! I like the level of depth.
Great to hear! We hope to have more at R in Pharma 2024 October 29, 30, & 31st. Workshops will run the week before.
Quarto is great! And even better than Latex can use Quarto with Typst!
Really great. Just wish you’d do things in base R. I’m an advanced user and avoid ggplot and tidyverse so wish you’d stop pushing those tools
I'm a newbie in R. Can you explain why would you avoid ggplot and tidyverse? Is there something inherently wrong in them?
@@Destroyedconcrete As a developer, simpler is better. You want code that is easy to debug, easy to understand, and that will stand the test of time. Just using one command of tidyverse in an R package commits you to its ridiculously large number of dependencies which makes your code less stable. As for ggplot, it produces beautiful figures very quickly, but for EDA purposes you don't often need that and you will end up wasting time. Especially if you want to tweak your plot in any way that is different. As a newbie, you might appreciate the ease at which you can generate high quality graphics and the seemingly easy way to manipulate data with tidy verse, but as you get more advanced you will recognize them as being overly complicated.
@@DestroyedconcreteNo reason. Learn and use the tidyverse.