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I like it but it makes it hard to take R as a serious programming language (thankfully it's not in standard R) because where else would you actually use a codin
by curiousgal 9y ago
I like it but it makes it hard to take R as a serious programming language (thankfully it's not in standard R) because where else would you actually use a coding pattern like:
a = "foo"
a = "bar"
reusing variables is silly.
- minimaxir 9y agoThe alternative is to use a different variable for each data transformation, which has costs for both system memory and code readability. And modern data analysis has a lot of transformations.