[disgruntledphd2]

They still do.

I like the tidyverse, but Hadley's struggles with lazy evaluation and arguments has cost me lots and lots of time updating internal code at various workplaces.

Don't get me wrong, the tidyverse is great, but if I was writing R code that I expected to run without supervision for a long time, I'd avoid it as much as possible.

[baldfat]

There are more then enough ways to keep it going. This has been address by several tools.

Personally I have some tiddy code that is 8 years old and it still is working.

[mellavora]

Yes, and I have plenty of it which does not.

[danielecook]

If you are looking for a faster, more concise alternative I highly recommend data.table.

[iron0013]

perl is also very concise