Post #3892426
2026-07-17 18:25 UTC
ok #Rstats i have some questions. yes, i have been under a rock for a long time.
what is a tibble?
why is a tibble not just a dataframe?
i honestly want you to tell me all about it
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@nxskok@cupoftea.social 2026-07-17 18:52
@ansate@social.coop some thoughts: - a tibble is a newer concept than a data.frame, with the intention of learning from the confusing things about data.frames. - tibbles don't have row names (on the basis that your row names should be a column in the dataframe) - if you display a tibble, you get by default the first 10 rows, on the basis that this will usually tell you if your dataframe contains the right things. - if you use read_csv etc from readr to read in data from a file, you'll get a tibble; if you use the old read.csv, read.table you'll get a data.frame.