The breaking changes are all quite severe, I hope there is real demand for the features they are bringing in.
Even if they don't agree with the direction Wickham's Tidyverse is going it showcased how flexible the R language was to being rewritten from the inside. Hadley effectively pulled of a more significant language upgrade with less breakages - the R core team could learn something from him here. Even their sensible na.rm default for new functions is introducing more weird inconsistencies to R.
Even if they don't agree with the direction Wickham's Tidyverse is going it showcased how flexible the R language was to being rewritten from the inside. Hadley effectively pulled of a more significant language upgrade with less breakages - the R core team could learn something from him here. Even their sensible na.rm default for new functions is introducing more weird inconsistencies to R.