Don't Enforce R as a Standard

Re:Don't Enforce R as a Standard by rjurney on Friday April 03, 2015 @09:48PM (#9319569)

True, but if you write decent or so-so Python code, it is readable to anyone who knows a C like language. So-so R code is still impenetrable.

The language matters. One is optimized for ... honestly I have no idea what R is optimized for. I don't think R works that way. It just is. Python though, its optimized for readability.

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Re:Don't Enforce R as a Standard by hadley on Friday April 03, 2015 @10:46PM (#9319714)

Badly written R is impenetrable. So is badly written R. I suspect your standards for so-so R code are vastly different to mine.

R and Python really are very similar as languages. R is more functional, but that shouldn't impede your ability to understand code (once you master some of the basic idioms of FP)

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Re:Don't Enforce R as a Standard by rjurney on Friday April 03, 2015 @11:37PM (#9319802)

I can't actually comment on what is good/bad R code, because I've never seen any R code beyond a few lines that I could follow.

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Re:Don't Enforce R as a Standard by x0x0 on Friday April 03, 2015 @10:43PM (#9319707)

python is optimized for readability to C programmers

R is optimized for statisticians

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