Chain.jl VS AlgebraOfGraphics.jl

The [Chain.jl package](https://github.com/jkrumbiegel/Chain.jl) is becoming idiomatic for these kind of pipelines.

If you do have tabular data in a dataframe you have a few options for data manipulation, the most popular packages are probably DataFramesMeta and Query, although in my opinion the best way to manipulate dataframes is with the functions built in to DataFrames.jl and using a package like Chain.jl or Pipe.jl to pipe the functions into each other like magrittr in R.

The Julia community built a better piping method than any other language has AFAIK: Chain.jl.

@chain and @match.

Have you ever tried Infiltrator.jl and Chain.jl?

You are right. However, sometimes well used is very useful, and readable. One suggestion, in Julia I suggest Chain.jl, because it allows intercalate easily the output for debugging:

I also like pipe syntax and I've found there is nice support for it in Julia. There are some nice packages to improve it over base [1].

Have you checked queryverse [2]?

[1] https://github.com/jkrumbiegel/Chain.jl

This illustrates the point perfectly. Julia is attempting this and has a beachhead with Dataframes.jl. Confusingly though, Tidier.jl isn't really analogous to R's Tidyverse. It's more like one of a handful of meta-packages around Dataframes.jl.

Then there are Grammar of Graphics (ggplot was Tidyverse's first star) style plotting libraries that Julia has been building. I'm probably most excited about Algebra of Graphics (https://github.com/MakieOrg/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl/) as part of the Makie Plots ecosystem. It does still feel a bit like Julia community can't decide between following Matplotlib or R's Grid/Ggplot approach.

The seeds of a Tidyverse for Julia are there, but it'll take some time to achieve the consistency and maturity of the original Tidyverse.

Did you maybe overlook something, in https://github.com/JuliaPlots/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl or other package? I looked up "grid" and it seems to have something. I realize R, and ggplot2, were considered best by many (and Gadfly.jl similar, AoG seems to be its replacement?), but I didn't realize it had extensions (that you clarify below). At least you can call R, and thus use its plotting (and I assume its extensions too, can you confirm or deny?). For some reasons you got downvoted, so might you be ignorant of new developments in Julia (also Makie, to me it seemed excellent and I thought Julia caught up with plotting, and also had more options than other languages), or the others, or people simply very opinionated about plotting? It's about features, also speed/latency/TTFP, which is getting better.

Julia has plenty of plotting solutions that are better for stats than matplotlib:

https://github.com/JuliaPlots/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl