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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?
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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!