While I am not an expert in R, My observation about the specific features that I use often in R and its equivalence in Perl is as follows.
- The *apply functions, Technically it is similar to Perl's map/grep and friends. - Magrittr: Perl5 has no equivalent function, Perl6 has the pipe operator ==> - the tidyverse set of packages, Python has stolen some of the features from this package (ggplot and dplyr) I am not aware of any equivalent package in Perl. - Literate Programming via knitr ( Python has Jupyter) The nearest equivalent I find in Perl is one of the template engines but it is really not the same... I suspect that while P6 has the nuts and bolts of being a great language for DataScience, It does not provide a complete out of the box experience. For me to consider P6 instead of R for my Data Analytics, At a minimum I would prefer to have the equivalent of the tidyverse package,Leaflet and associated GIS packages and knitr(Which already supports Perl) Regards Vijay On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:36 PM, yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote: > A bit of a digression around marketing/evangelizing > > >> When I wanted to learn DataScience, courses using R and Python were >> readily available. Even though I had been using Perl for 20 years, I did >> not even know where to start in the Perl ecosystem! >> > > I've wondered why PDL isn't more popular, more of a thing in the wide > world of science. https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL > > And PDL was very much in mind during the early & mid design stages of > Perl6. There's a huge opportunity for Perl6 to be a great platform for data > science if it can add PDL's data-crunching performance & expressiveness to > its already wonderful concurrency models. > > -y > > -- https://www.facebook.com/vijayvithal.jahagirdar https://twitter.com/jahagirdar_vs http://democracies-janitor.blogspot.in/
