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Whoa, you know this is hacker news right? You don't get to call R elegant around these parts.
I think R is elegant, what's inelegant in it (other than the code lots of non-programmers write with it)?
Hi everyone, member of the Livebook team here. We’ve been investing a lot in making Elixir great for data exploration. Today we’re taking one step further in this journey by contributing to the Explorer library and integrating it with Livebook. Explorer is an Elixir dataframe library built on top of Polars (from Rust) and inspired by dplyr (from R). Its integration with Livebook (open-source code notebook for Elixir)…
Can you make a pitch to a Python/R user to give this a try? What you’ve built looks very nice and heard nothing but good things about elixir elsewhere, but would take a lot to leave those much more robust ecosystems. Do you hope to grow into that over time? Is there enough in terms of viz, statistical models, and ml to survive?
They do a lot of prototyping from CSV/parquet sources in Python and R.
I've waited to show them Livebook because Elixir syntax is somewhat alien to many, but now that the Livebook team has integrated ML models and dataframes (Explorer through polar.rs) as smart cells, I think they have a killer feature in their hands, much like Liveview was for Phoenix framework.
Let's see how it goes, I'm fairly optimistic about it.
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I think R is elegant, what's inelegant in it (other than the code lots of non-programmers write with it)?
It has 4 ways to do object orientation if IIRC, none of which are compatible.
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It has 4 ways to do object orientation if IIRC, none of which are compatible.
S3, S4, R6, and reference classes. To be fair they are situational and not one size fits all. The stricter ones are mainly used in biostats where significant metadata makes more sense in OO. S3 is nice and easy, primarily just a list with dispatches. Everything else is less so.
Whoa, you know this is hacker news right? You don't get to call R elegant around these parts.
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I think R is elegant, what's inelegant in it (other than the code lots of non-programmers write with it)?
The type system is so abhorrent, it makes me wonder if it's actually proper to call R a real programming language
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The type system is so abhorrent, it makes me wonder if it's actually proper to call R a real programming language
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."
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The type system is so abhorrent, it makes me wonder if it's actually proper to call R a real programming language
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."
[1] "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."