Making Merges Go Through Using tidylog and anti_join
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Packages in the tidyverse suite, including dplyr, represent amazing contributions data science. One thing that constantly vexed me, though, was the inability of dplyr’s merge functions–left_join, full_join, etc.– to actually let you know if the merges went through without having to do extra work. It just seemed so cumbersome to have to individually inspect each data frame after each merge. Well, thankfully, that is no longer necessary due to tidylog.