R is cancer

> R is cancer
> getting paid to fuck around with it
> barely get shit done because it sucks
> tfw only faggots use this hobo AIDS language

OP is dildo cumfirmed

who are you quoting?

wasn't bytecode modification put on hold for indefinite amount of time?

wouldn't surprise me

>putting space after meme arrow
>using meme arrow for no reason

It's nowhere near as AIDSy as MUMPS.

It's still pretty bad though.

Anyone else here SAS?

precious faggot is mad because OP ragged on his pathetic programming language

how does it feel to be a retard?

I've never used R, faggot.

then the only other alternative is Swift.

because you're a faggot.

I've never used either, you faggot.

r isn't a programming language
it's just a bunch of commands to turn text into cool graphs and shiz

R sucks. But a lot of people in biology use it. Bioconductor is ok.

New generation is moving to ipython notebooks instead of R

It's a functional language. You can write functions as programs.

jesus thank god. python is infinitely better than R.

Can't be beat for advanced stats. It's trash in every other department though.

I'm literally at a R seminar right now.

>> getting paid to fuck around with it
Yeah, well those guys get more money, more girls and are less autistic than you, OP.

Not all programming languages are made for the autistic purposes that you wanted it to be, maybe the R devs could write your parents a letter for being sorry about the mess you did with your autistic tantrums.

literally all I wanted was for R to let me do autistic things, why can't I just have this?

Itt: user doesn't know how to use a non-general functional language and spergs out

nt CIA nigger, but I won't fall for your tricks

wrong kind of autism. R is a specific tool for specific jobs; quit trying to do front end webdev in it, quit trying to write a shitty game in it. might as well try to "have fun and dick around" in coq or atelier b after you master R

Because statistics is one of the normalfag STEM shit along with Applied Math and Psychology ayy.

kek i'm just doing heavy data processing for company that can't be bothered to give me the data in a reasonable format first

You have to be an idiot not to use Julia, it has intuitive python-like syntax, C-like speed, designed from ground up to handle matrix programming to replace R and Matlab

Would R be useful for analyzing trends in data?

Why use it over c++/eigen?

Where did you get an R job? I like R.

I am learning it in University for statistic usages

lots of proper statistics courses use R, but thats about it

>C-like speed
ur steppin' over the line mate.

a compiled language for data mining, youre real smart arent you?

R is not meant to be used for general purpose programming.
It suffers from the usual scripting language problems:
It is slow, uses a lot of resources and if this matters, you are using it wrong and if you look at online guides on how to do stuff, you find that a lot of people load a ton of libraries.

It is meant to be easy to write, making it easy to calculate stuff.
I have written analysis that took days to complete, because I wanted to use it for more, but this is not really where it excels.

What is good about it:
Documentation is usually really good.
Language syntax is really good and most people instantly get it.
These things is Important for scripting languages you don't use all the time.

For me, it is an alternative to matlab.
Matlab scripting is terrible.
I don't write it all the time, so I easily forget syntax things and that makes it hard to read and harder to write.

Are you claiming it couldn't be done or that it would be a hassle to spend a second to compile it?

oh, right, youre one of those use-C++-for-everything retards that infests every programming thread...by all means, use C++ for data mining, I wont talk you out of it

What's a serious option here?

I've got some accountant's cluster fuck of an Excel macro I need to replace and was just thinking about looking into R when I saw this thread.

Shit runs for fucking hours and whole point of my next few weeks is to make it fast.

I'm fairly sure no one in management will tolerate something named "Julia" without having heard of it.

r is great for dealing with matricies, if you arent doing large matrix operations dont bother

it depends on what is running for hours and how often you need to run it.
R can store data to disk, easier than any other scripting language I have used.
You can gain something by switching to a faster language, but you can often save a lot more time by optimizing the algorithm.

I could be more specific if you were.

C++ is fast as fuck

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