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Re:IPython 8.0 by 323 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:20PM (#29910787)
The problem with RStudio is that it uses R, which while excellent at numerical calculations, is terrible at everything else - data parsing, string munging, file processing, ...

As the joke goes: The best thing about R is that it's designed by statisticians. The worst thing about R is that it's designed by statisticians.

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Re:IPython 8.0 by mellavora on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:50PM (#29913194)
evidence that R is terrible at everything else?

specifically "data parsing", "string munging", and "file processing"?

I've used R extensively for all of these, and having recently re-visited the python world don't see any advantage that Python has over R for any of these tasks.

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Re:IPython 8.0 by alexilliamson on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:51PM (#29913209)
RStudio has pretty amazing python support now FYI
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