Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis

Re:Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis by geomark on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @09:57AM (#10386605)

I'm currently using both R and Python, having previously only used Python. At first I didn't like R for general purpose data munging and web scraping. That was before I discovered a few R packages that make it a breeze. And now it's a toss up for me. If it's an interactive data product that I'm buiding I probably go with R. If I need data from an API and the supplier gives me only a Python sample script for accessing it I'll go with Python.

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Re:Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis by sweezyjeezy on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @11:01AM (#10386985)

Could you list some of these packages?

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Re:Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis by geomark on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @12:15PM (#10387482)

Recently started using rvest for web scraping. Sweet bejeezus that's a pleasure. I would've never considered R for scraping before. It was always Python with BeautifulSoup.

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Re:Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis by tareef on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @12:40PM (#10387645)

I would also check out dplyr for data munging. Since most of the code in dplyr is written in C++ it is much faster than the munging capabilities you probably used when you were using R years ago.

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Re:Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis by geomark on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @09:53PM (#10390854)

Indeed. I use dplyr frequently.

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Re:Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis by xixi77 on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @12:54PM (#10387767)

data.table is another handy one here :)

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Re:Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis by ChristianGeek on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @11:25AM (#10387127)

Sweezyjeezy asks which are breezy.

Sorry, couldn't resist!

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