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Hadlye Wickham has done some amazing work in R (ggplot2, plyr and dplyr). Despite R being a bit weird and annoying at times, his packages continue to make it th
by phren0logy 12y ago
Hadlye Wickham has done some amazing work in R (ggplot2, plyr and dplyr). Despite R being a bit weird and annoying at times, his packages continue to make it the most compelling option for data analysis (though Julia is catching up!).
Thanks, Hadley, for all the hard work.
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoHadley has actually made R my go to for data analysis. Great graphics, elegant syntax with dplyr, and his work with Shiny.
- hadley 12y agoYou're very welcome :)
- wodenokoto 12y agoI thought Julia was still way behind both R and Python when it comes to plotting and stat packages.
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoWhen I started using Python, it was pretty far behind R. No dataframes, barely any stats, etc. It caught up fast. Julia will do the same.
- shanusmagnus 12y agoI was just thinking today that I have very mixed feelings about Hadley, despite not knowing him -- on the positive side, his works (in my mind) transform R from a horrific language to a tolerable one, which is an astounding feat. On the negative side, if he hadn't made such momentous contributions, maybe people would have abandoned the bloody thing by now and we'd be using Julia instead.
- hadley 12y agoI'll choose to take that as a compliment :p
- zzleeper 12y agoAlso my feeling. You've been a great inspiration about how to write great and useful code, but I still feel like the many great features of R (as you said some time ago, NA handling, data frames, etc.) are sometimes outweighed by the cons. Quick question: what would you tell the Julia guys as a recommendation? Even though they are "competition", you probably have strong feelings about what features of R must be in any language that aims to replace.
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