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by semi-extrinsic 3816 days ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm a frequent R user, and it is definitely useful for analysing at simulation results. My point was just that there is a lot of things outside of R's capabilities. Even for analysis there are areas where R is of no use, e.g. when plotting data from 3D turbulence simulations, like Q-criterion isosurfaces:

https://www.nas.nasa.gov/SC12/assets/images/content/Chaderji...

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Yeah, for legacy or speed, you might need to drop down to lower libraries. But R makes that pretty easy.