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What are the things you dislike about R? (self.r_programming)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by CthulhuDreamer to c/[email protected]

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I will start:

a) as.Date("2022-Jul-01", format ="%Y-%b-%d") will or will not work depending on os language

b) how R handles diacritics and encoding differently on Linux and on windows

c) Rstudio :D

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[–] morcution 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Re: c) I will be a dirty shill for VSCode and R lol, example here. I find it much better for R shiny development, projects with multiple people and projects with multiple languages. Notebook support is less good out of the box, you will have to get a jupyter kernel set up - but I use scripts more so than notebooks anyway.

Anyway, onto the question! Base R. Yeah, I said it! Whenever I have a weird enough situation where tidyverse functions won't work due to poor quality data, then I shed a single solemn tear and quietly wish I had done the project in python as I start writing a for loop in what will no doubt be the most hacky solution ever.