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Not really related to the post but since R is so rare here in Hacker News, I will ask anyway: is R still worth using in 2022-23? Even RStudio gave up it's R bra

Not really related to the post but since R is so rare here in Hacker News, I will ask anyway: is R still worth using in 2022-23? Even RStudio gave up it's R brand to focus on Python.

vhhn 4y ago
There are still several areas where R beats Python: tabular data crunching, data analysis (plotting, stats), finance (econometrics etc...) but it's less and less obvious.
kickout 4y ago
Yes it's worth using IMO. Plotting and grokking is better than python IMO.
nerdponx 4y ago
Use it if you find it useful. It still has a much better and more vibrant ecosystem for statistics, including Bayesian statistics and certain kinds of time series analysis. Data.table is also a serious "power tool", although other non-Pandas data frame libraries like Polars might be dethroning it. Also GGPlot is still awesome, even if you can now get it in Python with Plotnine.
goosedragons 4y ago
I think so. It's still better at the things it was always better at, data analysis. I could be biased since it's my main language though.
throwaway_2341 4y ago
< Even RStudio gave up it's R brand to focus on Python Wouldn't R still be the primary language in RStudio, with Python being made available as necessary? Or is the idea that RStudio will turn into a proper Python IDE? Curious what makes you say that RStudio is putting its 'focus' on Python.
- cardosof 4y ago
  They changed their name to Posit so yeah, that's a conscious move away from R.
jstx1 4y ago
If you work with mostly tabular data, never deploy anything and don't need any deep learning, then it's fine.
BrandonS113 4y ago
R has much much better statistical packages that R, if it is statistics, you can probably find a package in R to do it, not same with python. And the programming language is much better for statistics than numpy/pandas if a package is not sufficient. I use both, and for statistics have no choice but to use R. For data, I use python.

Not really related to the post but since R is so rare here in Hacker News, I will ask anyway: is R still worth using in 2022-23? Even RStudio gave up it's R brand to focus on Python.

vhhn 4y ago

There are still several areas where R beats Python: tabular data crunching, data analysis (plotting, stats), finance (econometrics etc...) but it's less and less obvious.

kickout 4y ago

Yes it's worth using IMO. Plotting and grokking is better than python IMO.

nerdponx 4y ago

Use it if you find it useful. It still has a much better and more vibrant ecosystem for statistics, including Bayesian statistics and certain kinds of time series analysis. Data.table is also a serious "power tool", although other non-Pandas data frame libraries like Polars might be dethroning it. Also GGPlot is still awesome, even if you can now get it in Python with Plotnine.

goosedragons 4y ago

I think so. It's still better at the things it was always better at, data analysis. I could be biased since it's my main language though.

throwaway_2341 4y ago

< Even RStudio gave up it's R brand to focus on Python Wouldn't R still be the primary language in RStudio, with Python being made available as necessary? Or is the idea that RStudio will turn into a proper Python IDE? Curious what makes you say that RStudio is putting its 'focus' on Python.

cardosof 4y ago
They changed their name to Posit so yeah, that's a conscious move away from R.

jstx1 4y ago

If you work with mostly tabular data, never deploy anything and don't need any deep learning, then it's fine.

BrandonS113 4y ago

R has much much better statistical packages that R, if it is statistics, you can probably find a package in R to do it, not same with python. And the programming language is much better for statistics than numpy/pandas if a package is not sufficient. I use both, and for statistics have no choice but to use R. For data, I use python.