It's ok R, we still love you for diagrams.

Somewhere in a backroom, there's a hamster named Julia. In a hamster ball.

And rolling around behind it is a smaller ball called M.
- Don't forget the centipede crawling around in the sewer pipes named Fortran. We've all been trying to kill it for years and yet, somehow, it keeps going.
I loved Julia in my data science classes. Codes like python, runs like c. Can also use it with bash by piping values in

I love R, we are best friends. Life is wonderful when basically every function is vectorized by default.

The tidyverse is my favorite place
- I used to love it, but all the non-standard evaluation started to give me a headache.
  
  It’s easy enough to just not use it at all, except for ggplot which recently deprecated aes_() which fucking kills me; they really are dead-set on forcing tidy evaluation.

Probably barking up the wrong tree here, but boy do I hate R. The documentation is the worst, combined with the poor r studio experience. Vscode makes notebooks a bit better but lost a lot of functionality as far as I could tell.

Laughed so hard when I this course once they told us to do ML in R with Keras ... By calling the python API.

I've made such course and still feel sorry for the students. Was some legacy code just laying around.

Oh how I wish this was the data scientists I work with

This post was sponsored by the Matlab gang

Not me!

DON'T HURT THE SIMPLE CHILD

I like and despise R... WHY DO I HAVE TO COPY THE TEXT FROM MY CONSOLE INTO A SCRIPT TO ACTUALLY SAVE IT AS AN .R FILE????

Because it's a console, not an IDE. But I see your frustration and does seem ridiculous
- Maan, I am way too much of a himbo chemical engineering student yo understand what IDE means, had to channel my inner parent and ask a software guy for help
I am currently arguing with par() and coming back here to shitpost when I get too angry.

EDIT: OMG https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56497422/using-jupyter-r-kernel-with-visual-studio-code finally an IDE with SENSE
You don't really have to. You could save the workspace along with the history of you commands to load it at a later time, and never have a script at all.

The reason nobody really does that (except maybe if they use R once in every decade) is that it's not really viable in the middle-term. That is because it doesn't distinguish between failed attempts and actual, final code and so quickly becomes a mess.

I feel like some people are using python just so they can say that they use python

I considered looking at R once. As a data scientist and an experienced Python user, maybe I'll see something useful. Then I learned that R uses <- for variable assignment and = for equality evaluation, and I stopped learning because I would make that mistake if I learned to switch back and forth for the rest of my life.

You can also use = to assign variables in R it’s just not good practice

I remember trying to get shiny working for a statistician. Bad tooling. This was about 3 years ago.

I really wanted it to be severless but at the time it wasn't really possible.

I have since seen a cool web assembly method where it runs all the shiny stuff in the browser

Oooo do you have a link to that web assembly method?