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About 8 years ago I agreed with this point, but with the development of tidyverse, R has become far superior to Python for anything involving dataframes. I tea
by canjobear 6y ago
About 8 years ago I agreed with this point, but with the development of tidyverse, R has become far superior to Python for anything involving dataframes.
I teach classes involving data analysis, some in Python and some in R (different topics). The amount of time the Python students spend fighting pandas---looking up errors, trying to parse the docs, trying out new arcane indexing strategies---is obscene. On the other hand, the R students progress rapidly. I'd move everything to R if I could, but Python is still better for NLP pipelines.