By an odd coincidence, my sister and I will both be learning #R this summer.
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@peterdrake Nice for doing some mathy stuff, horrible as a programming language though
@freemo My sense is that people who come to data science from stats like R, but the ones who come from computer science like Python.
@peterdrake I would say thats sort of true. But replace "like" with "taught first"/ No one in their right mind would build a product with R, but its often all statisticians know since they arent taught to build products.
This is all very relative to what im doing now as I am in charge of a team that includes a software division of statisticians who started out knowing just R and I have literally needed to teach them to code in python from scratch. .While they know R better even they would admit its a horrible language to build concrete apps out of.
@freemo @peterdrake though it is a nice challenge like writing apps in #haskell
I have the fun this semester to learn machine learning in R.
