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What makes you even think this? R has been growing for years. It is more popular now then ever. Microsoft has bought into the ecco-system and I can use R with
by baldfat 10y ago
What makes you even think this?
R has been growing for years. It is more popular now then ever. Microsoft has bought into the ecco-system and I can use R with MS's sql server and also with Spark. People who had a bad experience from years ago and haven't gotten experience with all the changes we now have in R.
Python is a good choice but I think R is much better for my uses. Personally base 0 on Python with statistics is just wrong :) Python::Pandas has certainly gotten a lot of work to almost get equal parity with R.
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- duaneb 10y agoAnything other than base 0 would be unacceptable in python; people would go crazy. Personally, this is the biggest reason I can't use R—my brain doesn't work with position-based indexes; I'm just hardwired to offset.
- goatlover 10y agoJust as you learned to start counting at 1 like the rest of the world, you can relearn it easy enough. I don't have any problems using Julia's 1 based arrays. I always thought 0 based in high level dynamic languages was silly.
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- duaneb 10y agoWhat does dynamic vs static have anything to do with preferred indexing convention? The former is an execution time detail, the latter is how to index memory.
- baldfat 10y agoAnd that is 100% valid. So Python is a better choice. I just don't understand why the world isn't big enough for R and Python in the community especially since the leaders in R and Python get along so well.