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Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Re: Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by IndianAstronaut »

wodenokoto wrote: post #13
phren0logy wrote: post #2

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 thought Julia was still way behind both R and Python when it comes to plotting and stat packages.

When I started using Python, it was pretty far behind R. No dataframes, barely any stats, etc. It caught up fast. Julia will do the same.

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Post by nothunttroll »

As someone that likes lisp, I enjoyed a lot reading this. My first try when reading about functional programming was to try: Filter(Negate(is.numeric),c(1,2,"hello","bye")) just to receive something unexpected, then in freenode someone answered that c cast types to the more general type, here strings. So I have to begin reading from the beginning about types.

I think that Hadley can gives a very sharp opinion about what is needed to transform julia in a better R, if that is possible. Julia is about speed and no so much to make a big community, people use R because there are a lot of packages and is easy to install and well supported. Python with pandas show that you cat catchup is you try. So the question is if julia will receive some strong support or will be always a second rank players, time will reveal.

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Post by pamparosendo »

I understood functional programming reading this website; thanks for that! And ggplot2 aesthetics was the way to better understanding many of javascript plotting libraries available. I personally still find data.table package more confortable to use than piped dplyr, but I believe "this sane competition", let's say, between packages is contributing enormously to R.

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Post by sonabinu »

I've had the most amazing opportunity to meet Hadley at a Users group meeting. He is fantastic and very down to earth. Our group refers to his packages as the Hadley stack and I've heard that reference elsewhere as well. He has made a very powerful impact on how R has been evolving!
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