[Chicago] Thursday ChiPy

[Yarko Tymciurak]

Talk would be great (or at minimal - o.k.)

R itself is mathematically / functionally nice, architecturally an evil
hack.

I tried to put up a web services site for R functions and went down many
"existing" paths before I came to hate it.  You basically cannot separate a
request from an instantiation, so this either really taxes server resources
or limits what you can do.

It looks to me like its stuck being a single user desktop app.

Look at Pandas or Julia or other stuff, use it (as part of a non-desktop
single user solution) only when you really, really have to.

That was my experience with it - a mathematician's hack, a useful oddity -
not a good component for systems; limited.

YMMV.

My opinions are my own.

Regards,
Yarko
On Mar 11, 2014 9:07 PM, "Jared Nash" <jarednash0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 R for Python Programmers!
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> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:11 PM, John Blischak <jdblischak at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> I could give a quick talk on Software Carpentry<http://software-carpentry.org/>and the PyCon
>>> workshops <https://us.pycon.org/2014/events/software_carpentry/> we are
>>> offering at PyCon. ChiPy members attending PyCon may be interested in our
>>> workshops on "How to teach programming to novices" and "R for Python
>>> Programmers." Would this be appropriate for a lightening talk?
>>> Alternatively I could just make a quick announcement.
>>>
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>> I would love a lightening talk 5-10min on each. There will be quite a few
>> R folks from the Deloitte and Loyola side in the audience.
>>
>> --
>> Brian Ray
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