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Comment author: Matt_Simpson 04 March 2011 04:40:20PM 0 points [-]

Why in python instead of R? R is used much more widely among people actually doing statistics, as far as I know.

Comment author: jsalvatier 04 March 2011 05:01:30PM 0 points [-]

I know, but R is really really terrible, and I hate working in it while Python is a joy to use and develop.

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 05 March 2011 09:03:55PM 0 points [-]

out of curiosity, what don't you like about R?

Comment author: jsalvatier 05 March 2011 11:40:46PM 3 points [-]

The biggest thing is probably it's lack of good debugging tools. Their tracebacks are not very informative. Their handling of arrays is significantly inferior to NumPy. For example, R has a tendency to have separate functions for applying functions along different dimensions of an array whereas numpy almost universally has uses an argument to specify along what axis to apply a function. Also doing much of anything non-statistics is a royal pain.

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