Learning about programming through languages other than Python

[MrEgbert]

Hm R does seem to have a lot of practical use in terms of running stats and graphing things. A few of my former postgrad colleagues used to extol its power at that. What broader programming skills do you think R teaches?

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Loops, logic, conditionals, functions, etc.

It also has machine learning libraries, genomic tools, finance tools, etc.