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Re:One Year with R by nuclearnice1 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @11:37AM (#30767390)
I think these kind of common task challenges are great for comparison. You see a few approaches to a single task and you can do a more aligned and detailed comparison.

Unfortunately, it’s also a lot of work. In this case, you’ve posted an intermediate stage artifact from R. If one of the many Python programmers reading this want to produce a comparable artifact they need to understand or run that code. That alone reduces your likelihood of getting any substantial replies.

Maybe add a link to an image of the resulting plot?

Re:One Year with R by dm319 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @01:56PM (#30769277)
Good point, looks like I'm too late to edit, but here's a link [1] (excuse the R style indexing).

Yes, I love these things and very curious to see what hackernews comes up with. Project Euler was an eye opener for how things could be optimised in different languages.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/M8DX98I.png