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Re:GNU Octave 5.1.0 by ekianjo on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:20AM (#19289120)
R is actually a lot more concise than Python for a number of operations. Python wins when you consider the total ecosystem, but doing a broad comparison like that is unfair. it depends completely on what you are trying to achieve.
Re:GNU Octave 5.1.0 by thom on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:44PM (#19291348)
R has better data manipulation, algorithm support (outside of neural networks) and visualisation. Speaking as someone who has to maintain environments for a team of data scientists, getting R and RStudio Server installed with Intel MKL support etc is trivially easy. Getting JupyterHub, Python, Anaconda and your own compile of TensorFlow all up and running is _excruciating_ so I don't really buy that one ecosystem is provably better than another even if I think R is a horrible language in comparison).