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Why isn't R a proper programming language? What would you use over R for data analysis or statistical analysis? R has a beautiful functional ability based on
by dm319 5y ago
Why isn't R a proper programming language? What would you use over R for data analysis or statistical analysis?
R has a beautiful functional ability based on S-expressions, allowing some clever stuff to be done (i.e. tidyverse), incredibly fast (data.table is faster than Python, Julia, Matlab etc).
- ivirshup 5y agoCan data.table play well with the tidyverse yet? And as a side note, I believe it's moving down the rankings in the h2o benchmarks [1]. [1]: https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/ https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/
- dm319 5y agoOh that's great. I'm really glad to see Julia getting faster there.