That feature hasn’t been handy, though, if you want to write your own R functions using the tidyverse. That’s because base R functions usually need quoted column names while tidyverse ...

This is true, but -- depending on the script -- the lack of functions could take what is considered a well-thought-out, useful script and turn it into an amorphous mess of code that only works in a ...

The three most common open source technologies for writing data science programs are Python, SciLab, and R. Here's how to write program-defined functions in R.