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Re:Machine Learning for Hackers Table of Contents by programnature on Thursday February 09, 2012 @02:38AM (#3570184)
The problem with domain-specific systems like R is that, as software systems, you can't "hack" them far outside of their contraints.

Integration into other systems (like the web, or robust big-data pipelines) can't be taken for granted. Doing "standard" stuff becomes nonstandard, thus hacking can hit a wall.

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Re:Machine Learning for Hackers Table of Contents by simonw on Thursday February 09, 2012 @04:11AM (#3570359)
R is open source, and there are plenty of "bridges" to talk to it from other languages (e.g. http://rpy.sourceforge.net/ )
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