--- title: "Unlearning the Tidyverse" url: https://daily.dev/posts/unlearning-the-tidyverse-yh8devjxk source_url: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/06/unlearning-the-tidyverse type: article source: "R-bloggers" published: 2026-06-29T13:49:12.815Z updated: 2026-06-29T13:49:28.958Z tags: ["open-source", "r"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Unlearning the Tidyverse **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Response I Got Was Cynical](https://daily.dev/posts/the-response-i-got-was-cynical-y6vuaoyna) · Pointers Gone Wild · 5 upvotes · 1 comments - [tisthemachinelearner: New Workflow with uv for R Integration of scikit-learn](https://daily.dev/posts/tisthemachinelearner-new-workflow-with-uv-for-r-integration-of-scikit-learn-cub7fgagf) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Graceful Internet Packages](https://daily.dev/posts/graceful-internet-packages-3zmkz0y4y) · R-bloggers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#r](https://daily.dev/tags/r) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/unlearning-the-tidyverse-yh8devjxk)