On 29/12/13 10:45, YuHong wrote:
In my opinion, the best usages of Python and R should be for different
type of tasks respectively. For example, Python is good for
automating miscellaneous tasks, while R is good for list data
processing and statistical modelling. Therefore when you become more
familiar with Python and R, you shall not use the two for exactly the
same thing.
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That makes sense. The point I was trying to make really concerned the
structure of conditional statements, as well as statements such as
"print" and the declaration of the variables. I wasn't actually
referring to any programming similarities. In any event, this opinion
was made by someone with little experience in programming, so from the
"outside" the similarities are more apparent probably than to someone
with the more sophisticated awareness of the "inside" dissimilarities.
My original intent had been to use Meadows' models to try to get my hand
in for modelling and since I know a (very) little about Python I started
off with that, which gave me a rough idea of how I could approach such
tasks, and it worked; R is something else I'd like to learn, so thought
that I would try to do the same thing in R which is where I ran aground
and hence was very appreciative of Ishta taking the time to demonstrate
how to do such things in R.
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