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I really appreciate this sentiment as a data person who learned R first, now works in python, and helps non-engineer scientists write R programs for research. I

I really appreciate this sentiment as a data person who learned R first, now works in python, and helps non-engineer scientists write R programs for research. I've had great luck teaching scientists to think in a function-driven way, where functions are pure-as-possible and inputs are never mutated (which doesn't need to be discussed as R makes the opposite quite unnatural). I can't imagine teaching these same folks about python, custom classes, and why you need pd.DataFrame.copy() all over the place.

SJetKaran 6y ago
` and why you need pd.DataFrame.copy() all over the place.` Thanks for saying this! Also, in the past decade, the R data analysis/munging ecosystem has matured far more than the equivalent in Python. These days, writing (tabular) data transformation code in R is often far cleaner, clearer and less error prone than any other platform imo.