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by YWall39 760 days ago
Could not agree more

> I'll be happy when we have a successor language for R, but it won't be 2024 Python.

When it comes to statistics, and especially having to program stats analysis instead of just calling libraries, R is a much better language than Python or Julia. When it comes to other things, they are better than R. I use all 3 daily.
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Onawa 760 days ago
And with Quarto being available, why wouldn't you switch to whatever language is best for the current task? I'm throwing ObservableJS in there now too with the Quarto compatibility. You can do your data cleanup in R/Python, then use native web libraries for displaying pretty plots in the browser.
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padthai 760 days ago
It is clear that R is not doing as well as Python. It is not clear that it is not doing well overall. It is still the best in statistical analysis and interactive usage (sklearn, statmodels, etc are not good enough). Maybe there is a healthy community that can thrive. For the moment being it seems that they are trying to eat SAS userbase.
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