Comment by UniverseHacker
4 days ago
No, R is a serious general purpose programming language that is great for building almost any type of complex scientific software with. Projects like Bioconductor are a good example.
4 days ago
No, R is a serious general purpose programming language that is great for building almost any type of complex scientific software with. Projects like Bioconductor are a good example.
Perhaps a in a context of comparison with Python?
In my limited experience, Using R feels like to using JavaScript in the browser: it's a platform heavily focused on advanced, feature-rich objects (such as DataFrames and specialized plot objects). but you could also just build almost anything with it.
No, it's not. Even established packages have bugs caused by R weirdness. I like it nevertheless.
Yes, R is a proper general purpose programming language. Turing complete, functional, procedural, object oriented.../
Just in case someone reads this far and sees blubber's confident "No." Blubber is definitely wrong here. I used to do all of my programming in R. Throw the question into an LLM if you're wondering if R has a package like ___ in python.
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Care to give some examples?
I already did in my comment