It has some really great statistical and data science packages that were well ahead of the competition 10-15 years ago. The web frameworks were good enough for dashboards and what most people were using R for.
But if you wanted to write fast and elegant nom-vectorized code, R is really lacking. I left it for Julia for that reason.
I agree somewhat with you - nonetheless a FastAPI + Alembic + SQLAlchemy alternative in R would make it possible to use it as a general purpose language
rjdj377dhabsn|5 months ago
It has some really great statistical and data science packages that were well ahead of the competition 10-15 years ago. The web frameworks were good enough for dashboards and what most people were using R for.
But if you wanted to write fast and elegant nom-vectorized code, R is really lacking. I left it for Julia for that reason.
mvieira38|5 months ago
mhogers|5 months ago