readr VS dplyr

Compare readr vs dplyr and see what are their differences.

readr

Read flat files (csv, tsv, fwf) into R (by tidyverse)
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readr dplyr
1 40
992 4,654
0.8% 0.8%
6.0 7.1
18 days ago 25 days ago
R R
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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readr

Posts with mentions or reviews of readr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Is it safe to use the error handling features of C++ with Rcpp?
    1 project | /r/rstats | 28 Jan 2023
    If you use these error handling features, it does leave things in memory. I believe it’s only for objects you have allocated from c++, so may not be a big deal. For example, here’s where I noticed it in readr, which is presumably fixed now that they use rcpp11 https://github.com/tidyverse/readr/issues/757

dplyr

Posts with mentions or reviews of dplyr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-15.