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It really doesn't ease the pain of dealing with an awkward language. I think the general lack of technical sophistication in the R community just adds to the ag
by wrp 11y ago
It really doesn't ease the pain of dealing with an awkward language. I think the general lack of technical sophistication in the R community just adds to the aggravation. So as far as community experience goes, I might actually rate the APL-family higher.
- brudgers 11y agoAs a J fanboi, I can't say I don't sympathize, and J has perhaps the best documentation of any language I've come across. Yet, R is probably a better choice for general collaboration simply due to its ubiquity.
- wrp 11y agoOh yeah, I wouldn't even consider APL for collaborating with non-programmers. I'm thinking of just as a personal tool. With R, you can do data preparation, but I find it easier to do it with Perl or awk than import the cleaned data to R. Is a standard workflow with J pretty much the same? I thought that with PCRE and other libs available in J, it might be suitable for more than just juggling cleaned data.