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While I'm somewhat ambivalent about Windows-only tools, it's nice to see R getting love from all the big players. The more market share and developers using it
by Mikeb85 11y ago
While I'm somewhat ambivalent about Windows-only tools, it's nice to see R getting love from all the big players. The more market share and developers using it, the more the tools and implementation improves, and the better for all of us. Just finished an assignment using R Studio, Knitr and Plotly, so much less pain than Excel+macros or Stata.
- marrone12 11y agoI also vastly prefer R to Pandas, where the same functionality for plyr seems awfully verbose and unclear.
- eruditely 11y agoI definitely prefer R to pandas, dyplr and tools were soo much easier to use for subsetting dataframes and dealing with them, initially I thought python might be better because it was supposed to be easier, but boy was I wrong.
- pbowyer 11y agoThanks for mentioning dyplr. I've been struggling with pandas (can a library be more convoluted?) and will definitely give R a go.
- eruditely 11y agoYeah out all the assorted packages that go with that, tidyr too. Here's a cheat sheet https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/data-wrangling-cheatsheet.pdf https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/data-wran...
- deskamess 11y agoAfter downloading this and installing I filled out a survey. One of the questions was about seeing this in VS Code. Yes, please. So there is hope.