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R Programming Language

This cluster focuses on discussions about the R programming language, its strengths and weaknesses for data analysis, statistics, and visualization, including debates on syntax, packages like tidyverse and ggplot, learning resources, and comparisons to Python.

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baldfat (52) hadley (50) minimaxir (36) disgruntledphd2 (34) _Wintermute (31)

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Sample Comments

newyankee • Dec 8, 2017 • View on HN

Great, but no love for R and Hadley Wickham ?

sin7 • Aug 14, 2017 • View on HN

What's wrong with R? I know it's not a programmers language but it's great for getting things done.

clircle • May 13, 2024 • View on HN

Sounds like your data scientists are not big on R.

ekianjo • Feb 6, 2022 • View on HN

Don't learn R from books that are more than 5 years old

RockyMcNuts • Feb 10, 2013 • View on HN

R makes the hard things easy and the easy things hard.

d4rkp4ttern • Aug 6, 2021 • View on HN

Surprised to see it still uses R rather than Python

01PH • Oct 3, 2011 • View on HN

Do you have any recommendations for accessible R tutorials? I would love to get into this a little bit more. R seems quite effective for these kinds of things.

graywh • Mar 18, 2011 • View on HN

What about R do you think makes it hard?

taurath • Nov 15, 2019 • View on HN

Maybe if they used something prettier than R it would help?

pharmakom • Sep 14, 2021 • View on HN

R is a surprisingly functional language!