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Re:Why do we use R rather than Excel? by dm319 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @06:55PM (#27805154)
Why isn't R a proper programming language? What would you use over R for data analysis or statistical analysis?

R has a beautiful functional ability based on S-expressions, allowing some clever stuff to be done (i.e. tidyverse), incredibly fast (data.table is faster than Python, Julia, Matlab etc).

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Re:Why do we use R rather than Excel? by ivirshup on Sunday July 11, 2021 @10:25PM (#27806283)
Can data.table play well with the tidyverse yet?

And as a side note, I believe it's moving down the rankings in the h2o benchmarks [1].

[1]: https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/

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Re:Why do we use R rather than Excel? by dm319 on Monday July 12, 2021 @04:43AM (#27808322)
Oh that's great. I'm really glad to see Julia getting faster there.
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