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Yes.

Base R is OK, but dplyr is magical.

For instance, integer indexing in base R is df[row,col] rather than the iloc pandas stuff.

plot, print and summary (and generic function OOP more generally is really underappreciated).

Python is a better programming language, but R is a better data analysis environment.

And dplyr is an incredibly fluent DSL for doing data analysis (not quite as good for modelling though).

Seriously, I read the original vignette for dplyr in late 2013/early 2014 and within two weeks I'd switched most of my new analytical code over to it. So very, very good. Less idea-impedance match than any other environment, in my experience.




I was actually using data.table The syntax can be bit cryptic, but you get used to it.




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