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“R has been traditionally limited by the need to fit data sets into memory, and working with even modest sets of data can quickly exhaust memory due to historic
by Annatar 9y ago
“R has been traditionally limited by the need to fit data sets into memory, and working with even modest sets of data can quickly exhaust memory due to historical limitations in GNU R interpreter’s implementation.”
I see that the propaganda machine never rests, no matter which language. Either that, or they haven’t heard of Vertica’s R, which is excellent and counters these claims.
The rest with the “fragmentation of R” is a poor marketing tack: people who run R are perfectly capable of thinking with their own brains, thank you very much; Renjin has no place patronizing. We’re not sheep.
- kirillseva 9y agothat's a fairly toxic and silly attitude towards a free software project. Don't like it - don't use it. I personally think it's great that there are people who are working on making R faster/better/popular, even though I may disagree with the methods they've chosen to achieve those goals.
- Annatar 9y agoI wish it were toxic but it isn’t - Java is still around, so software like Renjin gets written. If my attitude were toxic to Java, Renjin wouldn’t exist.