Introduction to the tidyverse

The tidyverse is a collection of R packages designed around a consistent approach to data science [@wickham2019tidyverse]. For clinical data management, the tidyverse is useful because it provides readable tools for importing data, selecting variables, filtering records, creating new variables, grouping records, summarizing data, and joining datasets. Its grammar is particularly helpful for learners because many commands can be read from left to right as a sequence of operations.