> I just wish we had something like Matplotlib in R
plotly could be worth a try, i use its python bindings and much prefer it to matplotlib, but i don't know much about the quality of it's R API
yeah, I haven't used Polars but from skimming the docs it looks kind of enterprisey. I don't want to type `df.select(pl.col("a"))` instead of `df["a"]`.
Re:Polars
by theLiminator on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:18AM
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Latter also works.
Have you tried the "grid" graphics package in R? It's the basis for ggplot. It's a bit of an unsung hero, the documentation is not great, but I think it is a very solid library.
Is it usable on its own? I only ever interacted with it in trying to hack around something I didn't like in ggplot, and it didn't seem like something I could use "by hand". In hindsight it does sound a lot like what MPL does. I can take a look!
I probably wouldn't use it for EDA or research, but I have started to use it in certain production scripts for the better performance.
R dplyr + data.table is still my favorite data manipulation experience. I just wish we had something like Matplotlib in R: ggplot is too high level, base graphics are too low level. Also Scikit-Learn is much more modular than Caret, which I don't really miss using.