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With over 15,000 packages at CRAN, R has evolved from a wonderful language for statistics to a wonderful general-purpose language. I came in contact with R by a
by Annatar 4y ago
With over 15,000 packages at CRAN, R has evolved from a wonderful language for statistics to a wonderful general-purpose language. I came in contact with R by accident because a colleague of mine took a day off and the client approached me instead, and it's a love affair with R that has lasted since. I haven't been excited about a programming language since I was last learning the MC68000 family's assembler. I just cannot sing R enough praises. R of course has packages for connecting to a PostgreSQL database, and Vertica is a PostgreSQL database with R as the scripting language. Such a wonderful combination. I'd gladly use and administer Vertica again without a second thought, given the opportunity,
- singingfish 4y agoOh no, R as a general purpose language, argh! I mean yeah whatever floats your boat but I find it torturous for anything other than as a specialist platform for doing linear algebra - aka statistical analysis. I got a nice half hour meeting with one of the core R developers a few years ago back when I was pretending to be an academic - he was a regular collaborator with one of the senior academics in the business school that most of my work was coming from at the time.