A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R

Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by itronitron on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:49AM (#17309595)

I am always amazed when I hear that people use Python in any type of production pipeline.

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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by terragon on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:09AM (#17309928)

Could you please elaborate on that?

My company has tons of python code producing reports with reportlab, making UIs with PyQt5, as well as a multitude of small scripts to interact with MySQL.

We’ve been nothing but happy with Python in the years of using it.

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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by itronitron on Thursday June 14, 2018 @08:28PM (#17316524)

Mainly because production pipelines care a great deal about performance (speed) and Python is generally considered to have worse performance in comparison to compiled languages (Java or C++.) Depending on your pipeline that may not be a big deal.

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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by YeGoblynQueenne on Thursday June 14, 2018 @04:35AM (#17310273)

"I 've done it so it's not so bad" is not a very good argument. I've done a significant data science project in Prolog (with R for the plotting btw) but that doesn't mean Prolog is the go-to language for data science :)

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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by shakna on Thursday June 14, 2018 @05:30PM (#17315552)

But it is a datapoint against the hypothesis "Prolog is inappropriate for data science".

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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday June 15, 2018 @05:47AM (#17318585)

Oh, true that :) Sorry, I might have misread your comment!

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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by leibnitz27 on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:04AM (#17309902)

^^ THIS. And yet certain organisations I know have upwards of 40M lines of it. Run. Run. Run FASTER.

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