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Disagree. I've had an R server running in production for real-time analytics under heavy load in the last six months, and I have had exactly zero problems. Lite
by robertk 13y ago
Disagree. I've had an R server running in production for real-time analytics under heavy load in the last six months, and I have had exactly zero problems. Literally no down time.
Additionally, weak scraping support is a myth: http://www.theswarmlab.com/r-vs-python-round-2-22/ http://www.theswarmlab.com/r-vs-python-round-2-22/
- gwu78 13y agoI use a TCP client written by another UIC math professor and sed for most of my scraping needs. Can you or anyone give me an example, _that is likely to be seen on any website_, that you believe cannot be solved with sed but can be solved with XPath? The example at the URL you given above appears to have a target CSV file as its only requirement. I routinely use HTTP pipelining and sed/tr to produce CSV files from websites. As for R, I'm more curious about its database and analytics capabilities. How does it stack up to kdb+?