• Troy
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    497 months ago

    Somewhere in a backroom, there’s a hamster named Julia. In a hamster ball.

      • Troy
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        187 months ago

        Don’t forget the centipede crawling around in the sewer pipes named Fortran. We’ve all been trying to kill it for years and yet, somehow, it keeps going.

          • Troy
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            147 months ago

            Jokes aside, I encounter Fortran in the applied physics community still fairly often. And have never encountered M in a professional context.

    • @finestnothing@lemmy.world
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      27 months ago

      I loved Julia in my data science classes. Codes like python, runs like c. Can also use it with bash by piping values in

  • @Bye@lemmy.world
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    237 months ago

    I love R, we are best friends. Life is wonderful when basically every function is vectorized by default.

      • @Bye@lemmy.world
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        57 months ago

        I used to love it, but all the non-standard evaluation started to give me a headache.

        It’s easy enough to just not use it at all, except for ggplot which recently deprecated aes_() which fucking kills me; they really are dead-set on forcing tidy evaluation.

  • @Darkraisisi@feddit.nl
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    177 months ago

    Probably barking up the wrong tree here, but boy do I hate R. The documentation is the worst, combined with the poor r studio experience. Vscode makes notebooks a bit better but lost a lot of functionality as far as I could tell.

    Laughed so hard when I this course once they told us to do ML in R with Keras … By calling the python API.

    • Outback9973
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      27 months ago

      I’ve made such course and still feel sorry for the students. Was some legacy code just laying around.

  • @diseasedolm
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    167 months ago

    Oh how I wish this was the data scientists I work with

    • Zewu
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      27 months ago

      This post was sponsored by the Matlab gang

    • @fossilesqueOPM
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      117 months ago

      DON’T HURT THE SIMPLE CHILD

  • @The_Ferry@lemmy.world
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    147 months ago

    I like and despise R… WHY DO I HAVE TO COPY THE TEXT FROM MY CONSOLE INTO A SCRIPT TO ACTUALLY SAVE IT AS AN .R FILE???

    • @Acters@lemmy.world
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      167 months ago

      Because it’s a console, not an IDE. But I see your frustration and does seem ridiculous

      • @The_Ferry@lemmy.world
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        87 months ago

        Maan, I am way too much of a himbo chemical engineering student yo understand what IDE means, had to channel my inner parent and ask a software guy for help

    • @flyos@jlai.lu
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      27 months ago

      You don’t really have to. You could save the workspace along with the history of you commands to load it at a later time, and never have a script at all.

      The reason nobody really does that (except maybe if they use R once in every decade) is that it’s not really viable in the middle-term. That is because it doesn’t distinguish between failed attempts and actual, final code and so quickly becomes a mess.

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      67 months ago

      It’s more because when ds has to hand over their work to the eng team the eng team doesn’t want to fuck with r

        • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

          Meh lots of python stacks out there now, especially data pipes.

          then typescript front ends.

          Point is no one wants to support r in production

  • @Artyom@lemm.ee
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    I considered looking at R once. As a data scientist and an experienced Python user, maybe I’ll see something useful. Then I learned that R uses <- for variable assignment and = for equality evaluation, and I stopped learning because I would make that mistake if I learned to switch back and forth for the rest of my life.

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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    67 months ago

    I remember trying to get shiny working for a statistician. Bad tooling. This was about 3 years ago.

    I really wanted it to be severless but at the time it wasn’t really possible.

    I have since seen a cool web assembly method where it runs all the shiny stuff in the browser