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Prior to those packages, R was the language in which most new statistical methods would be published. So it has had very good library support for statistics for
by Blahah 12y ago
Prior to those packages, R was the language in which most new statistical methods would be published. So it has had very good library support for statistics for a long time. Only more recently has it also gained excellent data manipulation support.
- disgruntledphd2 12y agoWhich kinda violates the principles expressed by the writers of said open source project, but I'm all for it on the basis that if I never again have to use base reshape, stack or gsub then it would be a good thing. I believe An Introduction to R specifically notes that one should use other software to provide R with appropriate data.