(Builds on: Parsing basics)
There are three main reasons you might want to export a tibble from R:
To share with others.
To track changes over time using Git & GitHub.
To cache partial results so you don’t need to re-run a complete tidying work flow every time you restart your analysis.
Generally, csv is a good way to store data: it’s simple, and can be read by a large variety of tools (including GitHub which displays it nicely online). However, it doesn’t store some important metadata, and it’s not optimised for efficient reading. For those scenarios, you may want to use RDS or feather files instead.