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Understanding how the tidyverse evolves and deprecates

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Understanding how the tidyverse evolves and deprecates

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- [Instructor] The Tidyverse is an incredibly powerful toolkit for doing data science with R. The reason it's so powerful is that it's still growing and evolving, and it's not a stagnant collection of functions. Sometimes when you look at the documentation for functions, you'll find a lifecycle badge that says superseded. Two really important examples are gather and spread. These used to be the functions used for transforming data between wide and long formats. But in 2019, the Tidyverse was augmented with two powerful new functions, pivot_longer and pivot_wider, which I've introduced in this course. Gathering and spread will not be removed from the Tidyverse because they are marked, superseded, and the documentation pages for the functions makes clear the functions will continue to work, but you are encouraged to transition to the new and improved functions. A small number of functions will be marked deprecated. This indicates the function will be removed from the Tidyverse at some…

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