"Why do we use R rather than Excel?"
excel python r · 25 comments · 550 words · read ~19,607 times.
I recently had cause to take a beginners course in R - a language I'm fairly familiar with. One of the other students had never used it before, so we were buddied up in order for me to show them the ropes. The first lesson of R is always the same. Read a CSV, manipulate it a bit, draw a graph. We did it all without much fuss - and a graph appeared on screen. Nifty! "I don't get it," the student said, "Why wouldn't you just use Excel for this?" To a programmer, it seems obvious - but it's…
Continue reading →