Hi Raniere,

  We are teaching the tidyverse in the Data Carpentry R ecology lesson. We
recently transitioned to using read_csv and write_csv instead of the
equivalent functions that come with R. We are keeping some of the syntax
and notation of the base R programming because even if the tidyverse is
becoming increasingly popular, people will inherit code from lab members
that is not using it, and knowing a few key elements of the syntax will
help.

  Cheers,
  -- François

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Raniere Silva <[email protected]> wrote:

> After a long discussion with Anna Krystalli and some work using R reviewed
> by Mario Antonioletti, I got convinced that we should teach Tidyverse
> <https://www.tidyverse.org/> to novices because it solves some R issues.
> One example is to use readr <http://readr.tidyverse.org/> instead of
> native R read.XXX function because it fix the conversion of white space to
> dot in headers.
>
> Data Carpentry R Ecology
> <http://www.datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-lesson/02-starting-with-data.html>
> doesn't use Tidyverse. I don't know if they have any plan to migrate the
> lesson to Tidyverse. And I don't remember if any other Carpentry lesson
> adopts Tidyverse from the begin specially because of the overload of
> teaching how to load it to novices which was the source of a log discussion
> for the Python lesson that never reach a agreement.
>
> Raniere
>
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