Honest question: Is there anyone here fluent in both #rstats and #python who prefers R?
I know Python well and am still learning R. It feels kludgy, extremely context-sensitive, and more like an accreted bag of tricks than a designed programming language.
Maybe this is just my fear of change / computer scientist bias or issues with the particular book I'm reading. A part of me feels that students minoring (and someday majoring) in #DataScience should know R because it's widely used, but another part worries that teaching them this inferior tool is doing them a disservice.
Is there an R champion in the house?
Most languages:
true is a boolean
2 is an integer
2.0 is a double
2L is a long integer
TRUE is a logical
2 is a double
2.0 is a double
2L is an integer
For added fun, the last three are displayed the same way (2).
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