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by geomark 3866 days ago
Is your assessment based on using recent R packages? I recently learned about dplyr, magrittr and rvest in a couple of recent data science courses and it seems to me that data munging is a pleasure with R. For example, I had a rough time scraping Wikipedia using Python/BeautifulSoup (I might be a little weak using them tbh) but knocked it out with rvest and magrittr. I never wrote it up but this guy[1] did something similar and wrote a nice post about it.

[1] http://opiateforthemass.es/articles/james-bond-film-ratings/