Closed Teebusch closed 4 years ago
would another @datacarpentry/r-ecology-lesson-maintainers be willing to also review this PR? Thanks!
would another @datacarpentry/r-ecology-lesson-maintainers be willing to also review this PR? Thanks!
@fmichonneau I'll review this PR as a second.
Thank you both!
Currently, "starting with data" introduces base R's
read.csv()
, but "Manipulating data" then switches toreadr::read_csv()
. SInce R 4.0 the default behavior of both functions is to read strings as character vectors, so there is little reason to introduce both. For beginners the confusion that this creates is arguably larger than the insights gained from it, as evidenced by some of the issues here.This is related to a number of issues and might close some of them:
609 #471 #608 #553 #555 #559 #616 #645
The main change is: