Is it necessary to have dplyr as a dependency?

[zkamvar]

I did a search for dplyr in this repo and found this: https://github.com/reconhub/epicontacts/search?q=dplyr&type=Code

Basically, dplyr is only used for joins right now and I'm wondering if it may be better to just switch over to base::merge() to lighten up the dependencies.

[vpnagraj]

@zkamvar great point, i'd prefer to lose the dplyr dependency if possible ... i'm working on replacing the joins and printing with base functions

[zkamvar]

FWIW, I think the printing is much better keeping the tibble format. I think it's worth keeping tibble around when we drop dplyr