Re:R for Data Science
by dfsegoat on Friday September 16, 2016 @05:28PM
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It can be challenging for sure.
I will say, having struggled to use R and finally prevailing, that I will NEVER use anything else for generating figures for academic publications or internal reports (ggplot2 - same as the author of course).
Nothing comes close to the composable, functional way that it "just works" -- I don't use it every day - but it is my "go to" for data exploration etc. -- more than pandas / ipython.
I will say, having struggled to use R and finally prevailing, that I will NEVER use anything else for generating figures for academic publications or internal reports (ggplot2 - same as the author of course).
Nothing comes close to the composable, functional way that it "just works" -- I don't use it every day - but it is my "go to" for data exploration etc. -- more than pandas / ipython.