Tidy Data Neatly Resolves Mass-Spectrometry's Ragged Arrays

Mass spectrometry (MS) is a powerful tool for measuring biomolecules, but the data produced often difficult to handle computationally because it stored as ragged array. In R, this format typically encoded in complex S4 objects built around environments, requiring an extensive background R perform even simple tasks. However, adoption of tidy [@wickham2014] provides alternate structure that highly intuitive and works neatly with base functions common packages, well other programming languages. Here, we discuss current state R-based MS processing, convenience challenges integrating techniques into present [RaMS](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=RaMS), package produces representations data.