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It’s amazing how much value this company has built on top of R. In my opinion they’ve done more for R than pandas and numpy has for python.
by j7ake 4y ago
It’s amazing how much value this company has built on top of R. In my opinion they’ve done more for R than pandas and numpy has for python.
- gchamonlive 4y agoYou can't really compare rstudio to r and pandas+numpy to python. Maybe jupyter, but even then those are completely different goals to different ecosystems.
- j7ake 4y agoWhen I say rstudio I guess I am implicitly saying also devtools, tidyverse, and ggplot2 because Hadley Wickham works at Rstudio. I guess it is indeed true that Rstudio is much bigger than the IDE.
- nomilk 4y agoI think the most useful comparison is between languages have an org that makes a little money and uses it to hire top notch developers to work 100% of the time on OSS [1], VS languages that don't have that. RStudio's contributions to the R ecosystem have been magical, most notably the RStudio IDE and the tidyverse set of libraries. When I need to get anything done quickly that involves working with data, I reach for R immediately, long before even considering python, ruby, SQL or any of the more constrained tools like tableau or (uggh) SAS/SPSS/et al. R is just so fast to develop in, and so reliable. I feel like I hit more walls in other languages ecosystems; not so much the actual syntaxes, but more oddities/bugs/incompatibilities in the way/place/environment in which I use the code. [1] RStudio (the org) has 40 (!!) devs full time on OSS! (and many more who aren't full time)