Speak for yourself. Programming in R is amazingly expressive for prototyping. Its semantics are extremely lispy, yet it provides excellent support for fast numerics. It keeps me focusing on the problems I want to solve and provides me the tools to abstract them quickly to handle related problems. Meanwhile, python keeps forcing me to care about pesky implementation details which I don't care about on a first or even second or third pass. I really can't understand people who like python over R. Did you guys not read SICP?
wodenokoto|1 year ago
I didn't.
I do wonder what you are programming in R, that isn't loading, munging visualizing and fitting models.
Do you have a github you can share? Or a SICP with examples in R?