cderv
January 13, 2018, 10:40am
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You can already find some existing discussion on this subject in the community. You may begin there.
Hopefully this isn't too off topic for this community...
I'm interested in becoming a more well rounded programmer and heard that some languages (e.g. Lisp, Haskell, Prolog) are particularly good choices toward this goal. Mainly because they are very different.
Are there any languages which are an especially good compliment to R? I'm not overly concerned about practical applications - my goal would be to understand R at a deeper level by contrasting with another language.
This is great. RStudio is my favorite of all time, and this group is awesome.
About me:
R user for 6+ years
My question: R vs Python
Python is replacing R. If you don’t know Python, you can’t get a job!
The main complaint is that R is SLOW. Python is fast, but has no IDE close to beating RStudio. Packages like Numpy and Scipy are spin-offs from R.
As a leader in the R community, what are your plans to improve R? How to sustain the competition without losing?
Thanks,
-M
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