dplyr
Hacker ApprovedRanked 3 of 3 r packages by recommenders
People recommend dplyr for its readable verb-based syntax for filtering, selecting and transforming data, especially for beginners learning data analysis in R.
People recommend dplyr for its readable verb-based syntax for filtering, selecting and transforming data, especially for beginners learning data analysis in R.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Readable, almost pseudocode-like syntax
“dplyr reads almost like pseudocode: take this dataset, select the columns that start with "bill"”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “Data Manipulation in Clojure Compared to R and Python” “Tools like Polars and dplyr and even SQL require code that's far closer to how people think.”
Comment from 10 Oct 2026 in “Polars 2.0” Easy for beginners to learn
“R and dplyrs ability to pass column names as unquoted objects actually reduces cognitive load for new people”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “Data Manipulation in Clojure Compared to R and Python” “dplyr still offers the most simple and understandable introduction to data analysis for the beginner”
Comment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Pre-Release of Polars 2.0” “Dplyr is great if you are learning the ropes”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Python is not a great language for data science” Intuitive and elegant data manipulation
“Unlike others, I find tidyverse (especially ggplot2 and dplyr, which reminds me a lot of pandas) to be quite intuitive.”
Comment from 25 Jun 2026 in “Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions” “tools like polars and dplyr are such elegant ways to manipulate data”
Comment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Pre-Release of Polars 2.0”
Other r packages people recommend
The two most recommended other r packages, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tidyverse | 23 | 9 | 72% | 6 | — | Approved |
| data.table | 15 | 2 | 88% | 7 | — | Approved |
| dplyrThis page | 13 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | Approved |
What people said
12 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Tools like Polars and dplyr and even SQL require code that's far closer to how people think.”
“dplyr still offers the most simple and understandable introduction to data analysis for the beginner”
“tools like polars and dplyr are such elegant ways to manipulate data”
“Coming from an R/dplyr background, I agree.”
“Unlike others, I find tidyverse (especially ggplot2 and dplyr, which reminds me a lot of pandas) to be quite intuitive.”
“even though the syntax is a bit different (better)”
“Dplyr is fantastic for many reasons, one of those being that people like the verb-based approach”
“When R's dplyr solved this over a decade ago, mostly by respecting SQL and following its lead.”
“R and dplyrs ability to pass column names as unquoted objects actually reduces cognitive load for new people”
“instead of filter(ds, year > 2008)”
“dplyr reads almost like pseudocode: take this dataset, select the columns that start with "bill"”
“Dplyr is great if you are learning the ropes”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.