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288 points sebg | 2 comments | 10 Apr 25 17:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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wpollock ◴[10 Apr 25 18:01 UTC] No.43646498[source]▶
Very nice, but instead of an owl, shouldn't the cover illustration be a pirate?
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DadBase ◴[10 Apr 25 19:41 UTC] No.43647370[source]▶
Totally agree. R is pure pirate energy. Half the functions are hidden on purpose, the other half only work if you chant the right incantation while facing the CRAN mirror at dawn.
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MrLeap ◴[10 Apr 25 20:15 UTC] No.43647653[source]▶
If you started with SAS for statistics like I did, you'd see how absolutely civilized R is in comparison.
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kylebenzle ◴[10 Apr 25 20:17 UTC] No.43647669[source]▶
Yes but today I find little to no benefit over python
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raffael_de ◴[10 Apr 25 20:37 UTC] No.43647811[source]▶
no plotting library available in python even comes close to ggplot2. just to give one major example. another would be the vast amount of statistics solutions. but ... python is good enough for everything and more - so, it doesn't really feel worth maintaining two separate code bases and R is lacking in too many areas for it to compete with python for most applications.
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1. TheSoftwareGuy ◴[11 Apr 25 14:13 UTC] No.43654033[source]▶
Plotting is one task I find such huge benefits to AI coding assistants. I can ask "make a plot with such and such data, one line per <blank>" etc. Since its so east to validate the code (just run the program and look at the plots) iterations are super easy
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2. raffael_de ◴[11 Apr 25 16:59 UTC] No.43655990[source]▶
That's probably 50% what I use Claude for. But always "use matplotlib's explicit / object-oriented interface and don't add comments".