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paultopia on June 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis ...

The thing that makes me sad about R is textmining. TM makes me sad, strings-as-factors makes me very sad. But maybe I'll try tidytext...

disgruntledphd2 on June 10, 2017 [–]

Yeah, Python is way, way better for text. And I say that as a long-time R user. R really doesn't like things that can't be represented as datasets.

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