A long-time R developer and PhD researcher shares their decision to abandon the Tidyverse after eight years of use. The motivation stems from a frustrating experience contributing to the 'httpuv' package, where their pull requests were dismissed dismissively despite weeks of work. The author, who has contributed to numerous R packages and co-maintains the CRAN WebTechnologies task view, plans to document how to accomplish common data cleaning tasks using base R with minimal dependencies.
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