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I'm currently using both R and Python, having previously only used Python. At first I didn't like R for general purpose data munging and web scraping. That was
by geomark 11y ago
I'm currently using both R and Python, having previously only used Python. At first I didn't like R for general purpose data munging and web scraping. That was before I discovered a few R packages that make it a breeze. And now it's a toss up for me. If it's an interactive data product that I'm buiding I probably go with R. If I need data from an API and the supplier gives me only a Python sample script for accessing it I'll go with Python.
- sweezyjeezy 11y agoCould you list some of these packages?
- ChristianGeek 11y agoSweezyjeezy asks which are breezy. Sorry, couldn't resist!
- geomark 11y agoRecently started using rvest for web scraping. Sweet bejeezus that's a pleasure. I would've never considered R for scraping before. It was always Python with BeautifulSoup.
- tareef 11y agoI would also check out dplyr for data munging. Since most of the code in dplyr is written in C++ it is much faster than the munging capabilities you probably used when you were using R years ago.