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So the question is, who was writing the code and why were they so evidently incompetent? Easy for anyone to pick up a bit of R and start working with it. Thus i
by vixen99 5y ago
So the question is, who was writing the code and why were they so evidently incompetent? Easy for anyone to pick up a bit of R and start working with it. Thus it's hardly surprising to find the situation you describe. Why weren't these folk put through a rigorous course before being let loose in a pharmaceutical company of all places? Hardly their fault unless they exaggerated their skills.
- 41b696ef1113 5y agoMy goto resource on this would be aRrgh which goes through some of the many rough edges of the language. Silent failures and data type castings can bite even those experienced in the language. R is a data analysis DSL that also happens to be a full programming language. [0] http://arrgh.tim-smith.us/ http://arrgh.tim-smith.us/
- fastaguy88 5y agoWhile your standards could be different from mine, I don’t think that all programmers who fail to write perfect code the first time are incompetent. Many competent programmers are not perfect, and rely on error messages and debuggers to produce correct code. Unfortunately, R does often fails to give the information required to find bugs.