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I don't have much of a background in maths or statistics, but from my experiences mucking about with R... I know that python is going to be a hell of a lot more
by AdrianRossouw 13y ago
I don't have much of a background in maths or statistics, but from my experiences mucking about with R... I know that python is going to be a hell of a lot more accessible to me as a programmer.
- catwork 13y agoThe fact that you are a programmer is exactly the reason R feels funny. Its predecessor (S) was originally just supposed to be an interactive interface for some Fortran libraries. It turned out to be useful to folks doing mathematical applications and grew into a language. Most introductions to R don't cover it in the same way other languages do. I found http://adv-r.had.co.nz/ http://adv-r.had.co.nz/ to be very helpful for clarifying matters in a manner that is more familiar to programmers.