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no self respecting person who calls themselves a date scientist ai researcher or ml engineer would touch R.. it's a toy for making pretty plots and fitting trad
by bayeslaw 6y ago
no self respecting person who calls themselves a date scientist ai researcher or ml engineer would touch R.. it's a toy for making pretty plots and fitting traditional stats models to small data.. it is not a proper programming language but a horrible old scripting whatever that was unfortunately
saved by Hadley and his persistence on creating an eco system around it..
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoSo I guess the authors of the Elements of Statistical Learning aren't "real" researchers then? For reference, the authors of that book (the best book about ML in general) were all involved in the development of S and R.
- data_ders 6y agoclicked on link expecting R shitposting. was not disappointed.