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Comment by latent-person

17 hours ago

> The bare R experience is not that great

Why do you say that? Base R is arguably nicer to work with data than pandas is for example. Happy to provide specific examples to prove my point if you want.

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lowmagnet  15 hours ago

my main frustration with pandas was certain idioms did not work efficiently because they escaped the pandas kernel, causing memory copy and other bad behavior.

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