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Why do you find R’s ecosystem “clunky”? The Tidyverse is unequaled for its elegance. I come from the CS world, so I’m supposed to like languages like Python, bu
by AuthorizedCust 6y ago
Why do you find R’s ecosystem “clunky”? The Tidyverse is unequaled for its elegance. I come from the CS world, so I’m supposed to like languages like Python, but I really, really like R, mainly for its elegance.
- enriquto 6y agoI agree that for statistics and data exploration R is certainly not clunky. My use case is more discrete PDE, where the R capabilities for sparse matrices and advanced linear algebra are a bit limited (but this may be just because I'm more used to the annoyances of numpy).
- veddox 6y agoThe Tidyverse is great, but vanilla R is a monstrosity. After five years of heavy use, I still don't really understand the random idiosyncracies of its various types. Arrays and lists and dataframes and tibbles are confusingly named, and operations that work on one type often balk at the others, without telling you what's wrong. I have lost many many nerves with it.