Tidyverse Packages in R

There are eight core Tidyverse packages namely ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, readr, purrr, tibble, stringr, and forcats that are mentioned in this article. All of these packages are loaded automatically at once with the install.packages(“tidyverse”) command.

In addition to these packages, Tidyverse also has some specialized packages that are not loaded automatically but need their own call. These include the DBI for relational databases. httr for web APIs, rvest for web scraping, etc. Now, let’s see the core Tidyverse packages and learn more about them.

Tidyverse Packages in R following:

1. Data Visualization and Exploration
   • ggplot2
2. Data Wrangling and Transformation
   • dplyr
   • tidyr
   • stringr
   • forcats
3. Data Import and Management
   • tibble
   • readr
4. Functional Programming
   • purrr

When dealing with Data Science in the R Programming Language, the Tidyverse packages are your best friends! These Tidyverse packages were specially designed for Data Science with a common design philosophy.

They include all the packages required in the data science workflow, ranging from data exploration to data visualization. For example, readr is for data importing, tibble and tidyr help in tidying the data, dplyr and stringr contribute to data transformation and ggplot2 is vital for data visualization.