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Is there a succinct rundown of differences between Julia and R? As in, why would you use one over the other. Thanks!
by siculars 12y ago
Is there a succinct rundown of differences between Julia and R? As in, why would you use one over the other. Thanks!
- one-more-minute 12y agoJulia is generally a more powerful and thoughtfully designed language, so it's great if you want to do your own thing. If you're writing libraries or bespoke algorithms in R and finding yourself struggling for performance, Julia is already a great alternative to R + C (same for Python + C etc.) At the same time, R's ecosystem is huge and a lot more mature than Julia's, so for the average user who just wants to pull in data and plot it, etc., it's a far better choice.
- Mikeb85 12y agoR is similar to APL with a lot of Scheme influence. Values are all vectors, functions automatically map over vectors, etc... Julia is more like Python or Ruby, and not quite as data-oriented as R, but feels a little more like a general purpose language...