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Re:Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R by brent on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @10:47PM (#422953)
There are a number of packages for relatively obscure statistical techniques (say, nonmetric multidimensional scaling) that are available for R, but not for python (that I have seen).

I also believe R is easier for statisticians who cannot and do not want to know how to program. There are many advanced techniques that are one-liners.

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Re:Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R by gaius on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @05:07AM (#423251)
You've hit the nail on the head there. A programmer looks at R (or MATLAB) and says "this sucks as a programming language". An engineer or a scientist or a statistician says "so what, I'm not a programmer, nor do I want to be one, I've got actual work to do".
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