• Artyom@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I considered looking at R once. As a data scientist and an experienced Python user, maybe I’ll see something useful. Then I learned that R uses <- for variable assignment and = for equality evaluation, and I stopped learning because I would make that mistake if I learned to switch back and forth for the rest of my life.

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    10 months ago

    I love R, we are best friends. Life is wonderful when basically every function is vectorized by default.

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    10 months ago

    I feel like some people are using python just so they can say that they use python

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      10 months ago

      It’s more because when ds has to hand over their work to the eng team the eng team doesn’t want to fuck with r