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I don't think there's any shame in R effectively being a good, productive DSL for a lot of stats and viz work, built around fast stuff written in C++. I also th

by thom 7y ago

I don't think there's any shame in R effectively being a good, productive DSL for a lot of stats and viz work, built around fast stuff written in C++. I also think this is largely true of a lot of Python as well, tbh. In the future my hope is that projects like Arrow end up with even more of the workload being taken off R's shoulders.

vincent-toups 7y ago
I'm a data scientist and, frankly, I really strongly prefer R over Python. Its mostly the whitespace in Python, but the language is also slow and crufty as heck. R, if you use it responsibly, feels a lot more like your standard, lexically scoped, dynamically typed language.