Re:R: Introduction to Data Science
by clatan on Saturday March 02, 2024 @05:27PM
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I'm an old R user forced to mostly use python because that's what the team uses.
R is so much better than python in many areas concerning data pipelines: connecting with external database systems through an unified API, superior data munging utilities, as well as plotting, a more comprehensive (obviously) statistical analysis toolset.
I even find rmarkdown vastly superior to jupyter.
But IMO the best reason to use R rather tha python is that its tools will make you approach the problem as a statistician rather than a programmer.
R is so much better than python in many areas concerning data pipelines: connecting with external database systems through an unified API, superior data munging utilities, as well as plotting, a more comprehensive (obviously) statistical analysis toolset.
I even find rmarkdown vastly superior to jupyter.
But IMO the best reason to use R rather tha python is that its tools will make you approach the problem as a statistician rather than a programmer.