R is i think better for stats, mathematics, data viz and data wrangling. So the dev experience is generally better for many data professionals. But as a general purpose language, it's not great. …

R's syntax contains many ambiguous cases that have to be resolved one way or another. The parser chooses to resolve the bits of the expression in different orders depending on whether …

Nov 25, 2014 · I have seen the use of %>% (percent greater than percent) function in some packages like dplyr and rvest. What does it mean? Is it a way to write closure blocks in R?

Apr 19, 2018 · What is the double percent (%%) used for in R? From using it, it looks as if it divides the number in front by the number in back of it as many times as it can and returns the …

May 28, 2021 · I have recently come across the code |> in R. It is a vertical line character (pipe) followed by a greater than symbol. Here is an example: mtcars |> head() What is the |> …

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Jul 20, 2023 · R's Tidyverse is theoretically impossible in Python. R is a very powerful LISP-like language that gives powerful control over evaluation. Tidy evaluation depends on fexprs, …

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No one has yet mentioned that while <- does backwards-assign, -> also exists for forward-assign. It’s very convenient when you’re working with R interactively because it’s like, “Ah shoot, I …

Apr 2, 2025 · So, to answer your specific questions: The R Language Definition (a manual distributed with R) describes the syntax of a function definition in section 4.1.1. As for …