What are the things you dislike about R?

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

1 comments

That no one knows it. For many ML algorithms they rather get published first in R than in Python still, although I believe this is not true for deep learning, but rather stuff like tree based models.

Sometimes I can’t implement what I want to because I don’t have time, let alone skill to port a library from R into Python and make it sklearn compatible. But I also don’t want to be the only person in my team who understands the code. So Python it is.

Edit: just realized this is 7 months old, but I guess maybe we can boost activity by also answering to old posts?