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Actually, no. I have written several modules and packages in R, both native and C++, and it is impossible to write efficient R that is beautiful or even compreh
by an_d_rew 12y ago
Actually, no. I have written several modules and packages in R, both native and C++, and it is impossible to write efficient R that is beautiful or even comprehensible.
- craigching 12y agoHopefully you know the parent was Hadley Wickham who has very much contributed to the readability and beauty of R. So much so that even Python data scientists are lamenting that their code is not quite as beautiful as the "hadley stack" [1] FWIW, I've done both Python and R and they both have their pluses and minuses, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I've seen some R packages that do, indeed, make R beautiful, case in point, the dplyr package from Hadley Wickham. I'd love to see the future of R be inspired by dplyr and ggplot. [1] -- http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/17/grammar-of-data-science/ http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/17/grammar-of-d...