TalGalili

Thank you for the pointer vgnet, I didn't know about that project...

There is now: http://www.r-bloggers.com/comparing-julia-and-r%E2%80%99s-vo...

One thing is probably the huge number of statistical packages it has (see: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/), including (static) graphics (e.g: ggplot2, lattice, and just the base graphics).

Hi chubot,

Two things:

1) A data.frame is in fact a list of vectors of the same length "compacted" together.

2) I find the types very "sensible" for a person doing statistics. But I guess (almost) everything makes sense once you get used to it...

Hi chimeracoder, I am very curious to better understand how you find python better for the data pre-processing stage. I use only R, and would love to know what "I am missing" here. Any simple example will also make it easier to understand.

Thanks!