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I really like R. I find it a nice language to work in. I'm glad to see projects like this that make it more accessible.

• xandrius 1y ago
  What is something which you find better doing in R than in another popular language? Not including its standard library.
  • ants_everywhere 1y ago
    R and numpy can both be used as wrappers for blas and lapack but R is closer to a proper array language and is nicer to use. So basically any data operations that don't require python libraries, and especially any statistical programming
  • data-ottawa 1y ago
    The section in the r studio documentation called Computing On The Language is by far favourite feature of R It lets a function observe the context in which the function was called, which is why R can contextually use formula notations so ergonomically. That also backs pseudo symbolic computing, like plotting a function over a domain and magically getting the right chart titles. That language support is why Python libraries struggle so much to replicate the ergonomics of the tidyverse. https://rstudio.github.io/r-manuals/r-lang/Computing-on-the-language.html https://rstudio.github.io/r-manuals/r-lang/Computing-on-the-...
  • dismalaf 1y ago
    Everything related to stats or dealing with data. For one, R is actually an array language.
  • stared 1y ago
    ggplot2 - in my opinion, there is nothing close to it At the same time, I often do everything else in Python and just do charts in R.