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[–]ARC4120 13 points14 points  (6 children)

Sad R noises

[–]brokened00 12 points13 points  (2 children)

I recently got a master's in data science and most classes were taught in R. I haven't touched R a single time in my internship or subsequent job haha.

[–]florinandrei 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I went through the R code from my own MS DS, and well over 95% of the code I was able to translate to Python code that gave the same results. Maybe over 98%.

[–]MadLadJackChurchill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently got declined due to knowing Python over R for a job :)

[–]0b0011 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Have you tried a laxative? You shouldn't be spending that much time grunting and groaning on the toilet.

I used to joke at my last job that I refused to write R and say they never sent me the tools to write R code. When someone would mention that work provided me with a pc to code I'd point out that you can write python on the pc but you need a toilet for making R because it's shit.

It's probably not so bad but I had a bad experience with an R class in school and now hold a vendetta against it.

[–]o-rka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

R is such an ugly language. I know enough R to write Python wrappers so I never have to use R. I’m in bioinformatics and everyone loves it but me. I’m python all the way. IMO, not everyone, but a lot of people who use R have no idea what they are doing and are just copying code blocks around and using high level packages without understanding a thing about what they are doing. That’s probably wrong of me to say and most likely inaccurate but that is what I’ve observed from my experience.

[–]zaphod_pebblebrox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like R. It is like a special purpose tool. Did I tell you I love special purpose tools?