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

Re:An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R l... by lottin on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:21PM (#20363679)

To say that R is a domain-specific language is hardly a criticism, though. It was designed to be domain-specific from the start.

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Re:An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R l... by mbreese on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:45PM (#20365749)

I’d say one of the major problems I have with R is when people try to use it as a general purpose language. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It just wasn’t designed that way. I’ve seen a lot of R code that would have been trivial to write and execute significantly faster in another language.

But for its domain, I think R is great.

I guess when all you have is a hammer...

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