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Tidyverse History. A written guide to how a popular data tool evolved and why.

hadley.github.io/25-tidyverse-history

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Updates

October 2025
  • ✨ Proofreading ✨
  • Respond to reviewer feedback
  • Remove unneeded turn of phraise
  • Incorporate feedback from Di and Heike
  • Add an abstract
April 2025
  • Fix function order in pipe example for clarity (#18)
January 2025
  • Fix typos (#15)
  • Update index.qmd (#14)
  • Fix broken link
  • Fix typo (#13)
  • Final polishing
  • Restyle
  • Proofreading
  • "BD" (#12)
  • copy edit "What's next?" (#11)
  • copy edit "The early days" through "tidyverse at Posit" (#10)
  • stay in the first person :-) (#9)
  • copy edit Introduction (#8)
  • Fix build error
  • More writing