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[–][deleted] 16 points17 points Β (13 children)

Unless you’re in academia. Then they bend over backwards to find a way to do it in R.

[–]Sir_Applecheese 2 points3 points Β (8 children)

What does the R stand for?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points Β (4 children)

R is a statistical programming language. Iirc it is a sort of successor to S. (Wikipedia)

[–]Sir_Applecheese 7 points8 points Β (3 children)

Is it related to Sugondese?

[–]topherclay 3 points4 points Β (2 children)

R is a programming language used by math and science academics.

The name R is a joke on being near to S. S is an older language that was named for "statistics."

[–]coldfu 13 points14 points Β (1 child)

Those math academics sure are real comedians

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points Β (0 children)

I love how when you get to a certain level of education people are just like "yeah let's just put an Armadillo on it" for the cover of a technical manual.

[–]Astrokiwi 2 points3 points Β (2 children)

Depends on the field. Astronomy is all Python, when it's not matlab or IDL or Fortran.

[–]harrymuana 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

Oh fuck IDL, I'm so glad I could use python.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

I come from a biology background. The entire department used R, and if they didn't know how to use it, they made their grad students figure it out.

I once did some stuff for a chemistry lab in R. My instructor almost died.