An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R language

Re:An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R l... by thom on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:16AM (#20363134)

I don't think there's any shame in R effectively being a good, productive DSL for a lot of stats and viz work, built around fast stuff written in C++. I also think this is largely true of a lot of Python as well, tbh. In the future my hope is that projects like Arrow end up with even more of the workload being taken off R's shoulders.

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Re:An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R l... by vincent-toups on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:16PM (#20364545)

I'm a data scientist and, frankly, I really strongly prefer R over Python. Its mostly the whitespace in Python, but the language is also slow and crufty as heck. R, if you use it responsibly, feels a lot more like your standard, lexically scoped, dynamically typed language.

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