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Hadlye Wickham has done some amazing work in R (ggplot2, plyr and dplyr). Despite R being a bit weird and annoying at times, his packages continue to make it the most compelling option for data analysis (though Julia is catching up!). Thanks, Hadley, for all the hard work.
Hadlye Wickham has done some amazing work in R (ggplot2, plyr and dplyr). Despite R being a bit weird and annoying at times, his packages continue to make it the most compelling option for data analysis (though Julia is catching up!). Thanks, Hadley, for all the hard work.
This book gives you the tools to compose your own data tools using the building blocks Hadley uses. That is a big deal. Everybody should buy 5 copies.
Hadlye Wickham has done some amazing work in R (ggplot2, plyr and dplyr). Despite R being a bit weird and annoying at times, his packages continue to make it the most compelling option for data analysis (though Julia is catching up!). Thanks, Hadley, for all the hard work.
Hadlye Wickham has done some amazing work in R (ggplot2, plyr and dplyr). Despite R being a bit weird and annoying at times, his packages continue to make it the most compelling option for data analysis (though Julia is catching up!). Thanks, Hadley, for all the hard work.
I was just thinking today that I have very mixed feelings about Hadley, despite not knowing him -- on the positive side, his works (in my mind) transform R from a horrific language to a tolerable one, which is an astounding feat. On the negative side, if he hadn't made such momentous contributions, maybe people would have abandoned the bloody thing by now and we'd be using Julia instead.
Hadlye Wickham has done some amazing work in R (ggplot2, plyr and dplyr). Despite R being a bit weird and annoying at times, his packages continue to make it the most compelling option for data analysis (though Julia is catching up!). Thanks, Hadley, for all the hard work.
I was just thinking today that I have very mixed feelings about Hadley, despite not knowing him -- on the positive side, his works (in my mind) transform R from a horrific language to a tolerable one, which is an astounding feat. On the negative side, if he hadn't made such momentous contributions, maybe people would have abandoned the bloody thing by now and we'd be using Julia instead.
All the prior tutorials and courses I've seen presume and utilize a background in the domain of statistics and a require a fairly strong one at that. I strongly believe R should be sprung free of that encumbrance so as to find a wider audience and this is a really good effort in that direction.
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Well yes, but the interface to the site is much more annoying than the book (which is rather cheap for a textbook of this sort). YMMV, but I got much more from the book than from the site, and was also able to give hadley some money in the process, so its win-win :)
Personally I prefer the website because I can normally remember which chapter something is in, and then I can find-in-page to quickly jump to what I was thinking about.
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I was just thinking today that I have very mixed feelings about Hadley, despite not knowing him -- on the positive side, his works (in my mind) transform R from a horrific language to a tolerable one, which is an astounding feat. On the negative side, if he hadn't made such momentous contributions, maybe people would have abandoned the bloody thing by now and we'd be using Julia instead.
I'll choose to take that as a compliment :p
Quick question: what would you tell the Julia guys as a recommendation? Even though they are "competition", you probably have strong feelings about what features of R must be in any language that aims to replace.