Due to it being widespread throughout the R community, it is almost impossible nowadays to talk about R without mentioning the so-called tidyverse. This original name stands for a framework of concepts and functions developed mainly by Hadley Wickham to bring R closer to a modern programming experience. Introducing you to the magical world of the tidyverse is out of the scope of this book, but I would like to briefly explain how the framework is composed. Within the tidyverse, at least the four following packages are usually included: 

• readr: For data import
• dplyr: For data manipulation 
• tidyr: For data cleaning 
• ggplot2: For data visualization

Due to its great success, an ever-increasing amount of learning material has been created on this topic, and this leads us to the next paragraph.