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Atibble, ortbl_df, is a modern reimagining of the data.frame,keeping what time has proven to be effective, and throwing out what isnot. Tibbles are data.frames that are lazy and surly: they do less(i.e. they don’t change variable names or types, and don’t do partialmatching) and complain more (e.g. when a variable does not exist). Thisforces you to confront problems earlier, typically leading to cleaner,more expressive code. Tibbles also have an enhancedprint() methodwhich makes them easier to use with large datasets containing complexobjects.

If you are new to tibbles, the best place to start is thetibbleschapter inR for data science.

# The easiest way to get tibble is to install the whole tidyverse:install.packages("tidyverse")# Alternatively, install just tibble:install.packages("tibble")# Or the the development version from GitHub:# install.packages("pak")pak::pak("tidyverse/tibble")

library(tibble)

Create a tibble from an existing object withas_tibble():

data<-data.frame(a=1:3,b=letters[1:3],c= Sys.Date()-1:3)data#>   a b          c#> 1 1 a 2025-06-18#> 2 2 b 2025-06-17#> 3 3 c 2025-06-16as_tibble(data)#> # A tibble: 3 × 3#>       a b     c#>   <int> <chr> <date>#> 1     1 a     2025-06-18#> 2     2 b     2025-06-17#> 3     3 c     2025-06-16

This will work for reasonable inputs that are already data.frames,lists, matrices, or tables.

You can also create a new tibble from column vectors withtibble():

tibble(x=1:5,y=1,z=x^2+y)#> # A tibble: 5 × 3#>       x     y     z#>   <int> <dbl> <dbl>#> 1     1     1     2#> 2     2     1     5#> 3     3     1    10#> 4     4     1    17#> 5     5     1    26

tibble() does much less thandata.frame(): it never changes the typeof the inputs (e.g. it keeps list columns as is), it never changes thenames of variables, it only recycles inputs of length 1, and it nevercreatesrow.names(). You can read more about these features invignette("tibble").

You can define a tibble row-by-row withtribble():

tribble(~x,~y,~z,"a",2,3.6,"b",1,8.5)#> # A tibble: 2 × 3#>   x         y     z#>   <chr> <dbl> <dbl>#> 1 a         2   3.6#> 2 b         1   8.5

The tibble print method draws inspiration fromdata.table, andframe. Likedata.table::data.table(),tibble() doesn’t change column names anddoesn’t use rownames.

Please note that the tibble project is released with aContributor Codeof Conduct. Bycontributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.