An introduction to different R dialects: Base R, the Tidyverse and data.table

Recently I was tasked with teaching some basic data wrangling techniques to graduate student’s in UWyo’s Ecological Modeling course. While we’ll mostly be using base R in the class, I thought it might be useful to point out that other dialects exist in R and can be quite useful for different use cases of data manipulation. Along those lines I wrote a blog post that compares some of the common R dialects, to 1) help those just getting into R and coding more generally, and 2) to provide more advanced users a starting point for learning other R dialects.

Since I’ve also been learning javascript, css, and html, I also had a little be of fun using those tools to spice-up the post with some interactive features.

Check out the post below, or go to the actual site: https://wetlandscapes.com/blog/a-comparison-of-r-dialects/.