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Algo people use R because it's faster, nothing to do with being 'data people'. I am a data person, and I have to deal with a lot of text in my job. If I had t
by sweezyjeezy 11y ago
Algo people use R because it's faster, nothing to do with being 'data people'.
I am a data person, and I have to deal with a lot of text in my job. If I had to do it in R, I would quit.
Can you explain why you think it is easier to wrangle data in R? My experience is the opposite.
- vegabook 11y agoDo you mean they use Python because it's faster? yes sure. But then, just use scala. 10x faster again. With a REPL. Perhaps I should clarify, I'm talking mainly time series and/or data which is vectorizable. Python is better if you're scraping the web. If there's a lot of if else going on. Ie imperative programming. R's native functional aspects (all the apply family) and multilevel vector/matrix hierarchical indexing is better built from the ground up for large wrangling of multivariate datasets, in my opinion.
- hadley 11y agoWorking with text data in R is painful, but it's not due to limitations of the language.