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"R is very popular with stats people but new PhD candidates are beginning to write python implementations of R things (sort of how like DataFrames/pandas happen
by Fomite 5y ago
"R is very popular with stats people but new PhD candidates are beginning to write python implementations of R things (sort of how like DataFrames/pandas happened)."
People have been saying this since I was an undergraduate.
I'm submitting my tenure packet this year.
- gravypod 5y ago> People have been saying this since I was an undergraduate. > I'm submitting my tenure packet this year. That doesn't mean it isn't happening. If anything, the fact that the rate of adoption is slow over a long period of time would tell me that there's more stating power here. If suddenly 20% used python that would be a warning sign. If there was .5% year over year for decades.... That's different.
- Fomite 5y agoI'm just saying I have spent my entire career in "The year Python unseats R." and also "The year R unseats Python."
- haihaibye 5y ago> R dropped from 8th place in January 2018 to become the 20th most popular language... At its peak in January 2018, R had a popularity rating of about 2.6%. But today it’s down to 0.8%, according to the TIOBE index. https://www.datanami.com/2019/08/15/is-python-strangling-r-to-death/ https://www.datanami.com/2019/08/15/is-python-strangling-r-t...