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kylebgorman on Oct 15, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ggplot2 for python

I'd say more that it's approaching "domain-specific language". (I think R's syntax is just horrendous; love the libraries, though! ggplot2 included. Thanks Hadley!)

hadley on Oct 15, 2013 [–]

I think R is a lot like JavaScript: there's a beautiful language at its heart, but it's surrounded by layers of cruft. It doesn't help that most people using r are not programmers.

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