If you really can't decide, check out this comparison.
Scheme | Data Class | Template | Advantages |
---|---|---|---|
Base R | data.frame | mydata[rows,columns] | universal, historical |
Data Table | data.table | mydata[rows,columns,by] | fastest for Big Data |
Tidyverse | tibble | mydata |> filter(rows) |> select(columns) | easiest to use |
What is tidy data? See the classic article: Tidy Data (pdf) by Hadley Wickham, uses an older version of tidyr
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