The data that the readr package returns are represented as tibble objects. These are tabular data representations similar to the base R data frames but are a more modern version.
The package that implements tibbles
is tibble. You can load it using
library(tibble)
or as part of the tidyverse:
library(tidyverse)
Creating Tibbles
Tidyverse functions
that create tabular data
will create tibbles rather than data frames. For example, when we use read_csv to read a file into memory, the result is a tibble:
x<-read_csv(file ...
