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To me, R seems more like a cobbled together ecosystem of automation within statistics, rather than an actual language. Compared with Python the language ergono
by refactor_master 5y ago
To me, R seems more like a cobbled together ecosystem of automation within statistics, rather than an actual language.
Compared with Python the language ergonomics of R are confusing and inconsistent.
I guess momentum and establishment is also a feature in itself though I’ve personally never felt that, one of the selling points, the esoteric statistics packages at the edge would be of any use to me.
The use I’ve seen is reminiscent of Spyder and Notebooks: tangled, unreadable mess of line-by-line execution where people are prone to re-running stuff out of order.
- akg_67 5y agoActually, it most probably reverse. Python, numpy, pandas, etc are cobbled together with duct tape to do what R does elegantly. There is no consistency with Python ecosystem.
- Maxion 5y agoAgree. One thing is very clear in the R vs. Python debate is that a lot of programmers seem to know either or, not both. They are different tools for different purposes.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoI know both pretty well at this point, and would say that python is a much better language overall, but the stats/ML parts (especially pandas) are pretty inconsistent with both Python and themselves. That being said, R is amazing for exploratory work, while Python is better for integrating with the rest of the world.