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"R is a shockingly dreadful language for an exceptionally useful data analysis environment. The more you learn about the R language, the worse it will feel. The
by jruohonen 3y ago
"R is a shockingly dreadful language for an exceptionally useful data analysis environment. The more you learn about the R language, the worse it will feel. The development environment suffers from literally decades of accretion of stupid hacks from a community containing, to a first-order approximation, zero software engineers. R makes me want to kick things almost every time I use it."
Care to elaborate why? Besides, all languages evolve and gather cruft.
- a2800276 3y agoThe entire website elaborates why. Since you quoted from the page, you must have seen that that is not the only sentence on the page AND that it links to further pages!
- jruohonen 3y agoSure; lots of cruft, I wouldn't disagree. But it is still strong and super fast when "prototyping" but only insofar you are doing floating point computations. Otherwise, Python is the choice for me when doing "data science" (for lack of a better word).