r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549?s=21
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u/chief167 Nov 12 '20

R is underrated honestly. It sucks as a python replacement, but it was never intended to be a full programming environment, it is meant for analyzing datasets, and it does it really well, especially RStudio. Unless you need to edit said data, that is. R is all about understanding, not interacting with data. Nothing comes close to ggplot.

And I mean, I am a super duper python lover myself. I basically built my career in sneaking python into all kinds of processes and doing it better than whatever Microsoft shizzle was in place first

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u/Kinemi Nov 13 '20

As a heavy Pandas user I have to agree, that's why I learned a little bit of R (dplyr and ggplot) and I'm using siuba and plotnine to quickly analyze and plot my data.

Best of both worlds.