I haven't seriously used R in nearly a decade but I still miss (and think about) dpylr and the hadleyverse...
A few years ago I made a package called "redframes" that tried to "solve" all of my frustrations with pandas, make data wrangling feel more like R, while retaining all the best bits of Python...
Agreed! I started out doing data analysis in R… switched to Python because it was more multi-purpose at the time (ie: data engineering, analysis, and model deployment)… and I think about it and miss it so often.
A few years ago I made a package called "redframes" that tried to "solve" all of my frustrations with pandas, make data wrangling feel more like R, while retaining all the best bits of Python...
Alas, it never really took off. For those curious: https://github.com/maxhumber/redframes