Don't forget the centipede crawling around in the sewer pipes named Fortran. We've all been trying to kill it for years and yet, somehow, it keeps going.
I used to love it, but all the non-standard evaluation started to give me a headache.
It’s easy enough to just not use it at all, except for ggplot which recently deprecated aes_() which fucking kills me; they really are dead-set on forcing tidy evaluation.
Probably barking up the wrong tree here, but boy do I hate R. The documentation is the worst, combined with the poor r studio experience. Vscode makes notebooks a bit better but lost a lot of functionality as far as I could tell.
Laughed so hard when I this course once they told us to do ML in R with Keras ... By calling the python API.
Maan, I am way too much of a himbo chemical engineering student yo understand what IDE means, had to channel my inner parent and ask a software guy for help
You don't really have to. You could save the workspace along with the history of you commands to load it at a later time, and never have a script at all.
The reason nobody really does that (except maybe if they use R once in every decade) is that it's not really viable in the middle-term. That is because it doesn't distinguish between failed attempts and actual, final code and so quickly becomes a mess.
I considered looking at R once. As a data scientist and an experienced Python user, maybe I'll see something useful. Then I learned that R uses <- for variable assignment and = for equality evaluation, and I stopped learning because I would make that mistake if I learned to switch back and forth for the rest of my life.
21 Comments
troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 49 pts · 2y
Somewhere in a backroom, there's a hamster named Julia. In a hamster ball.
Mbourgon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 2y
Don't forget the centipede crawling around in the sewer pipes named Fortran. We've all been trying to kill it for years and yet, somehow, it keeps going.
Mbourgon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 2y
Jokes aside, I encounter Fortran in the applied physics community still fairly often. And have never encountered M in a professional context.
finestnothing@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Bye@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
I love R, we are best friends. Life is wonderful when basically every function is vectorized by default.
ergotamin@feddit.de · 13 pts · 2y
The tidyverse is my favorite place
Bye@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I used to love it, but all the non-standard evaluation started to give me a headache.
It’s easy enough to just not use it at all, except for ggplot which recently deprecated aes_() which fucking kills me; they really are dead-set on forcing tidy evaluation.
Darkraisisi@feddit.nl · 17 pts · 2y
Probably barking up the wrong tree here, but boy do I hate R. The documentation is the worst, combined with the poor r studio experience. Vscode makes notebooks a bit better but lost a lot of functionality as far as I could tell.
Laughed so hard when I this course once they told us to do ML in R with Keras ... By calling the python API.
Starry7217@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
I've made such course and still feel sorry for the students. Was some legacy code just laying around.
The_Ferry@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
I like and despise R... WHY DO I HAVE TO COPY THE TEXT FROM MY CONSOLE INTO A SCRIPT TO ACTUALLY SAVE IT AS AN .R FILE????
Acters@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
Because it's a console, not an IDE. But I see your frustration and does seem ridiculous
The_Ferry@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Maan, I am way too much of a himbo chemical engineering student yo understand what IDE means, had to channel my inner parent and ask a software guy for help
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 2y
flyos@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 2y
You don't really have to. You could save the workspace along with the history of you commands to load it at a later time, and never have a script at all.
The reason nobody really does that (except maybe if they use R once in every decade) is that it's not really viable in the middle-term. That is because it doesn't distinguish between failed attempts and actual, final code and so quickly becomes a mess.
diseasedolm@mander.xyz · 15 pts · 2y
Oh how I wish this was the data scientists I work with
zewu@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
This post was sponsored by the Matlab gang
produnis@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 2y
Not me!
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 2y
ergotamin@feddit.de · 11 pts · 2y
I feel like some people are using python just so they can say that they use python
GBU_28@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
It's more because when ds has to hand over their work to the eng team the eng team doesn't want to fuck with r
Knusper@feddit.de · -1 pts · 2y
Trust me, the eng team doesn't want to fuck with Python either.
GBU_28@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Meh lots of python stacks out there now, especially data pipes.
then typescript front ends.
Point is no one wants to support r in production
Artyom@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
I considered looking at R once. As a data scientist and an experienced Python user, maybe I'll see something useful. Then I learned that R uses <- for variable assignment and = for equality evaluation, and I stopped learning because I would make that mistake if I learned to switch back and forth for the rest of my life.
ergotamin@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y
You can also use = to assign variables in R it’s just not good practice