R is the PHP of data science. It is productive, it has a large ecosystem, lots of functionality, but it grew fast and organically and not in well planned manner

R is the PHP of data science. It is productive, it has a large ecosystem, lots of functionality, but it grew fast and organically and not in well planned manner, making it not consistent and a bit messy to work with. If you have to use R, use the tidyverse. https://www.tidyverse.org/ https://www.tidyverse.org/ I like R and use it often as it find it more concise to work with than Python for simple statistical purposes. I forced myself to use R instead of spreadsheets and don't regret it. This is one the reasons why (thanks, Zed Shaw) https://web.archive.org/web/20110702162929/https://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110702162929/https://zedshaw.c...