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> I always thought R was a vestigial artifact of the bad old days of computing that had no place in the Real World Why on Earth did you think that? Because it'
by uxp8u61q 3y ago
> I always thought R was a vestigial artifact of the bad old days of computing that had no place in the Real World
Why on Earth did you think that? Because it's not what the hip frontend devs use?
- _Wintermute 3y agoProbably because it's full of inconsistencies and gotchas, largely caused by backwards compatibility with S.
- nvy 3y agoBecause it has five assignment operators and a tendency to fail silently and to keep going after something errors, producing bad results for people that aren't programmers and maybe aren't good at debugging, and is only usable if you install a third party package (tidyverse).
- uxp8u61q 3y agoKeeping going after errors is common for many scripting languages, isn't it?
- nvy 3y agoNo idea. Silently failing and continuation is a complete anti-feature if you want correct results in your data pipeline though. I get it, you like R. I'm not interested in litigating this any further.
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