Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 18:56:50 UTC No. 16183124

>>16183121
Only if your workplace requires it. Usually they don't. Most people use Python. Very rarely do you encounter niche languages like R, Julia, or Matlab .

Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 18:56:55 UTC No. 16183125

If you want to make pretty pictures from your data then yes.

Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 19:02:51 UTC No. 16183140

>>16183121
It's a smarter person's Python, very good for stats. Python is a horrible language, but is used because it has a large amount of libraries. I hope Julia is the successor to both.

Mathematica is a god tier alternative to consider as well.

Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 19:06:25 UTC No. 16183148

>>16183140
Thanks. What's a good intro book for beginners?

Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 19:10:26 UTC No. 16183158

>>16183148
In which language? I'd only recommend Julia or Mathematica. If you have previous programming experience, for Python you don't even need a book, just the intro on the web page and the standard library docs.

Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 19:19:15 UTC No. 16183174

>>16183158
For Python. I have zero experience. Just looking to learn a programming language.
I'll look into Julia as well.

Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 19:23:43 UTC No. 16183181

>>16183174
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-0001-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-in-python-fall-2016/
See the syllabus for the textbook they're using. There's so many "Python for Retards" books out there, you might as well read one worthy of your time.

Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 19:29:38 UTC No. 16183188

>>16183181
Holy shit. This looks amazing for a starter course.
Thanks.

Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 21:05:24 UTC No. 16183314

>>16183140
>it's smarter person's Python
>Python is a horrible language
So by transitivity, R is horrible language

Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 21:22:43 UTC No. 16183333

>>16183314
Correct, and both are still better than javascript.

Anonymous at Mon, 20 May 2024 16:58:37 UTC No. 16184717

>>16183124
R is not a niche language.

Anonymous at Mon, 20 May 2024 19:29:47 UTC No. 16184940

>>16183121
R is nice BUT not good if it is the very first language you are learning.

Anonymous at Mon, 20 May 2024 20:02:25 UTC No. 16184991

>>16183121
R has incredibly goofy syntax. The user defined functions are terrible, I do not know how some one can run a pipeline after making some form of transformer. It is good for straight stats however. I would learn python over R, but, I will say, R is much better for straight stats.

Anonymous at Mon, 20 May 2024 20:15:35 UTC No. 16185005

>>16183124
I have encountered correctness bugs with Python stats packages that had existed for years, and no one noticed because no everyone uses R for any kind of advanced statistics. R is the academic and industry standard. I will never use Python for statistics again.

Anonymous at Mon, 20 May 2024 20:22:35 UTC No. 16185013

>>16183124
>Matlab niche
Dude, every boomer scientist uses matlab

Anonymous at Mon, 20 May 2024 20:34:10 UTC No. 16185037

>>16183121
If you plan to stay in academia, embrace it
If you plan to go to industry, just pick Python

Anonymous at Tue, 21 May 2024 10:15:01 UTC No. 16185979

>>16183121
I wish I learnt it. I am stuck with matlab in my phd studies

Anonymous at Tue, 21 May 2024 19:12:29 UTC No. 16186594

>>16185979
What are you doing with matlab? R is great for statistics and drawing plots, but not much else. It's certainly not a replacement for matlab.

Anonymous at Tue, 21 May 2024 19:13:33 UTC No. 16186595

I learnt R but when I graduated I found out that nobody uses it and everyone uses python instead

Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 00:56:21 UTC No. 16187100

>>16183140
Mathematica is accurate, but it is syntactically garbage.

Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 19:13:19 UTC No. 16188336

Bump

Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 20:17:51 UTC No. 16188446

>>16186595
It's used in statistical domains where python is behind or lack completely, e.g. non-linear mixed effects, generalized linear mixed effects e.g. regression modeling. But yeah, Python and its libraries are usually sufficient

Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 22:47:42 UTC No. 16188638

>>16183121
just use python.

Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 02:05:22 UTC No. 16188844

>>16183121
University research and start-ups use R. No one else does.

Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 10:13:39 UTC No. 16189257

>>16188844
I do research independently outside academia and I use R

Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 10:47:10 UTC No. 16189295

>>16183121
Why is it everyone avoid the most obvious choices?
Learn: Java, JavaScript, Python

Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 10:50:46 UTC No. 16189300

>>16183121
You don't really get to decide if you need to learn R or not. You'll either find yourself required to use it or you won't need it, depending on what you do for a living

Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 10:57:30 UTC No. 16189307

>>16189257
That's because you're cheap.

Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 19:03:36 UTC No. 16189898

>>16189307
I also use other free software (free as in freedom)

Anonymous at Thu, 23 May 2024 23:17:34 UTC No. 16190336

>>16189898
we all do.
so what's next in this autistic dick measuring contest?
$ sudo yum list installed | wc -l

Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 11:38:57 UTC No. 16190960

>>16190336
Post neofetch

Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 23:50:07 UTC No. 16191847

>>16190960
>Post neofetch
for the mail server or the tor node?

Anonymous at Sat, 25 May 2024 06:49:40 UTC No. 16192210

>>16184940
This