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TL;DR: Tragically, R has a lot in common with old-skool PHP and MS Excel, at the same time.
by daveloyall 12y ago
TL;DR: Tragically, R has a lot in common with old-skool PHP and MS Excel, at the same time.
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- kyberias 12y agoI don't know why exactly you're getting downvoted. I've tried learning R many times, but the resemblance to PHP problems is just too much.
- daveloyall 12y agoProbably there aren't legitimate semantic or syntactic similarities between the three. But for proposes of a TL;DR, I believe that a qualitative description of the situation should suffice. I'll try again: TL;DR: The language R lacks the quality without a name. Or: Jeeze, now I know why none of my previous attempts to learn a little R were fruitful. Or: The language R seems to have been developed in isolation and thus it fails to adhere to any particular convention--it is its own beast. Further, it sometimes lacks self-referential integrity and coherence. Or: haha cf. PHP or Excel. :)
- nkurz 12y agoI voted you up here because you were below zero and I was also about to post a comment comparing R to PHP, but I'll mention that I frequently downvote one line posts that start with "TL;DR". The concept of "too long didn't read" implies (to me, and probably others) that that the article isn't worth reading. If I think the article is worth reading, and the short comment isn't incredibly insightful, I'd usually prefer such comments to be at the bottom of the page and grayed out.
- daveloyall 12y agoOh, I hadn't considered "too long, DON'T read". Hm. This article is worth reading if you're interested in R but not yet well acquainted with it.