andioop@programming.dev to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agoWhat's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language?message-squaremessage-square134fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down14
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minus-squareatomkarincalinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoR. because it’s really easy to work on spreadsheets. i know there’s pandas for python but at that time RStudio made it look really attractive. i will do anything not to work on excel.
minus-square__ghost__@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoWhen I took biostatistics in college I asked to use python instead of R to do my assignments and they said no My only real complaint at the time was using <- to define variables but I felt really strongly about it and that I wanted to use fancy snake language
R. because it’s really easy to work on spreadsheets. i know there’s pandas for python but at that time RStudio made it look really attractive. i will do anything not to work on excel.
When I took biostatistics in college I asked to use python instead of R to do my assignments and they said no
My only real complaint at the time was using <- to define variables but I felt really strongly about it and that I wanted to use fancy snake language