Should corpus linguists embrace the tidyverse?

A new coding style is gradually establishing itself as a new standard in the world of R under the impulse of Hadley Wickham: the tidy style. It is the cornerstone of the tidyverse package. Since the publication of my book on corpus linguistics with R, many colleagues have asked me if I was planning to rewrite the whole code in tidy style (some of the code in the book makes use of some tidyverse packages). If you want to know my answer, please read on. The vast majority of new R users seem..