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To me writing tutorials for teaching R these days is same as writing tutorials for Fortran (and I'm sure Fortran still has some nice goodies not available elsew
by sytelus 12y ago
To me writing tutorials for teaching R these days is same as writing tutorials for Fortran (and I'm sure Fortran still has some nice goodies not available elsewhere). It misdirecting people eager to learn something to a wrong thing. As you can see in this article, every 3rd section of R book or tutorial is often dedicated in gotachas to deal with. We have iPython, Notebook, sci-kitlearn, numpy etc and massive number of R-packages already migrated. I hope there is little need to take trouble of learning R for most people new to it.
- minopret 12y agoIn the Python portfolio I'd mention matplotlib. Then Sage (sagemath.org) just dazzles me. It's a grand integrated environment using Python with lots of math/stat software built in (including NumPy and R) and lots more optional (including Matlab). You can just go see it and try it at cloud.sagemath.com. If you like it you can continue to use it there or you can download it - it's free open-source software.