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I personally love R and think it is superior to Python for about 90% of data science related tasks.
by thousandautumns 9y ago
I personally love R and think it is superior to Python for about 90% of data science related tasks.
- pas 9y agoThat'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.