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I have an impression that R is now lagging behind Python when it comes to deep learning. Definitely such tutorials are helping get more people on board of the d

by haddr 11y ago

I have an impression that R is now lagging behind Python when it comes to deep learning. Definitely such tutorials are helping get more people on board of the data science train with python.

baldfat 11y ago
Python is a good language and so is R. I don't understand the sentiment that the language is "lagging" behind Python. It is frustrating to read these opinions on the final death of R, but as a R user the language has real grown by leaps and bounds. Sure Python is a nice language that has packages for Data Science. I even started in Python but R has won me over for data science due to it being language specific. As you look at the growth of R in recent years and it over taking over Data Science I still run into these ideas that R is antiquated and "lagging behind" when it usually is Python and Pandas catching up in actual practice. http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/new-surveys-show-continued-popularity-of-r.html http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/new-surveys-show...
- bosie 11y ago
  The parent specifically said for Deep Learning though. As someone who switched from R to Python 18 months ago, I haven't kept up to date in R world. What is the equivalent of Theano (and the packages built on top of it) in R?
  - geomark 11y ago
    There are a few R packages for deep learning, although I wouldn't say that they compare with Theano yet. There's darch (package for deep architectures and Restricted-Bolzmann-Machines) [1], deepnet [2] which is incorporated into caret which is nice, and gputools [3] which has some of the GPU operations found in Theano. [1] http://cran.um.ac.ir/web/packages/darch/index.html http://cran.um.ac.ir/web/packages/darch/index.html [2] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/deepnet/index.html http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/deepnet/index.html [3] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gputools/index.html https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gputools/index.html

by haddr 11y ago

I have an impression that R is now lagging behind Python when it comes to deep learning. Definitely such tutorials are helping get more people on board of the data science train with python.

baldfat 11y ago

Python is a good language and so is R. I don't understand the sentiment that the language is "lagging" behind Python. It is frustrating to read these opinions on the final death of R, but as a R user the language has real grown by leaps and bounds. Sure Python is a nice language that has packages for Data Science. I even started in Python but R has won me over for data science due to it being language specific. As you look at the growth of R in recent years and it over taking over Data Science I still run into these ideas that R is antiquated and "lagging behind" when it usually is Python and Pandas catching up in actual practice. http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/new-surveys-show-continued-popularity-of-r.html http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/new-surveys-show...

bosie 11y ago
The parent specifically said for Deep Learning though. As someone who switched from R to Python 18 months ago, I haven't kept up to date in R world. What is the equivalent of Theano (and the packages built on top of it) in R?
- geomark 11y ago
  There are a few R packages for deep learning, although I wouldn't say that they compare with Theano yet. There's darch (package for deep architectures and Restricted-Bolzmann-Machines) [1], deepnet [2] which is incorporated into caret which is nice, and gputools [3] which has some of the GPU operations found in Theano. [1] http://cran.um.ac.ir/web/packages/darch/index.html http://cran.um.ac.ir/web/packages/darch/index.html [2] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/deepnet/index.html http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/deepnet/index.html [3] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gputools/index.html https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gputools/index.html