I’m actually not being ironic here at all, but why worry about tidyverse when R base is literally fine
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Many tidyverse users would be shocked at personal efficiency gains to be had using R base + data.table. What do I know .. I've only been using the language for 4 decades ... #rstats
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Which language? #rstats was invented 29 years ago.
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Replying to @ulrichatz @f2harrell @ashtroid22
S, of course. Which dates back to May 5, 1976, at Bell Labs and what followed. You may find the excellent article on "S, #RStats, and Data Science" by John Chambers in the ACM HOPL issue interesting if all this new to you: doi.org/10.1145/3386334

S, R, and data science | Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

Data science is increasingly important and challenging. It requires computational tools and programming environments that handle big data and difficult computations, while supporting creative,...

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Mar 16, 2022 · 8:00 PM UTC
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