The tidyverse is, according to its homepage, "an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science" (see https://www.tidyverse.org/). All of the packages are installed using install.packages("tidyverse"), and calling library(tidyverse) loads a subset of these packages, those considered to have the most value in day-to-day data science. Calling library(tidyverse) loads the following packages:
- ggplot2: For plotting
- dplyr: For data wrangling
- tidyr: For tidying (and untidying!) data
- readr: Better functions for reading comma- and tab-delimited data and other types of flat files
- purrr: For iterating
- tibble: Better dataframes
- stringr: For dealing with strings
- forcats: Better handling of factors, an R property ...
