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		sumzup on Aug 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia,... >Eventually, I hit a point with R where I was trivially doing pretty complicated things that would have been... ugly in Python. I'm curious; can you give any examples?

peatmoss on Aug 8, 2013 [–]

There have been others, but this was a pretty good example of 1.) munging data easily 2.) having libraries available that did what I was looking for

https://gist.github.com/pschmied/5903410

I make no guarantees about the quality of my hackish code :-)

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