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by lottin 723 days ago
Maybe because it already does what it intends to do reasonably well? I mean, what do you think needs to be improved?
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smcin 721 days ago
Here are 14 years of HN discussions/criticisms of R: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

"Does what it intends to do reasonably well" is going to be widely subjective, depending on whether the user's use-case is statistical/life-sciences vs more general purpose coding and relying on many packages; prototyping/experimentation vs production code; whether the user uses base-R, or tidyverse/data.table, etc.

Here are two of those many posts:

* An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R language (July 5, 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362626

* The R programming language: The good, the bad, and the ugly (epatters.org, 2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35571659 -> https://www.epatters.org/post/r-lang/

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aydyn 723 days ago
If youre unironically asserting that R already does everything well enough Im not going to take you seriously.
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skotobaza 723 days ago
Yet you haven't provided any substantial points against it and assume that others will take you seriously...
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lottin 723 days ago
I'm asking what needs to be improved, in your opinion.

That's a normal follow-up question that you should be able to answer. Otherwise, why are you even commenting?

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aydyn 722 days ago
No you arent, youre clearly asking in a rhetorical way. Re-read your post.

Any criticism brought up you'd dismiss. Heres one: lack of native 64 bit integers.

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lottin 722 days ago
No, I was just asking out of curiosity. You're overthinking too much.
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aydyn 721 days ago
No, you were clearly asserting that R already does everything needed. Stop trying to gaslight.
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dang 720 days ago
Please don't cross into personal attack or name-calling, and please especially avoid this sort of tit-for-tat spat with another user. It's way against the site guidelines and makes for boring reading.

I know it's not always easy to extricate oneself but it's helpful to remember that the only way to 'win' is to stop.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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lottin 721 days ago
You're crazy.
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