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Any thoughts on the R vs Python at 2/3rd of the page? I have the feeling (but no data) that the data science community is moving from R to Python, is that corre

Any thoughts on the R vs Python at 2/3rd of the page? I have the feeling (but no data) that the data science community is moving from R to Python, is that correct?

pas 8y ago
Yes. R is horrible.
- dnautics 8y ago
  R needlessly flaunts convention. Find a function that has the same name in numpy, Matlab, and julia, that function will have an infuriatingly different name in R.
- thousandautumns 8y ago
  I personally love R and think it is superior to Python for about 90% of data science related tasks.
  - pas 8y ago
    That's the thing. R is excellent at the statistics (the science, the hypothesis testing, and the other tools - and CRAN has real gems), but completely unusable for data manipulation (cleaning, filtering, discovering/exploration, tinkering), and especially hostile for anyone who is used to real programming languages. (No data pipeline for you, no easy scripting for regular experiments/backtesting. No great APIs, etc.)
    - thousandautumns 8y ago
      > completely unusable for data manipulation (cleaning, filtering, discovering/exploration, tinkering) Surely you aren't serious. Data manipulation is one of the areas in which R is vastly superior to Python.