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Cookbook: Polars for R (ddotta.github.io)
 

Pola.rs is a Python package to interface with a Rust library, but it's evidently coming to R as well.

As I understand it, Polars is an alternative to wrangling libraries like data.table and dplyr. This book compares the syntax of the 3 libraries.

Subreddits you are going to miss? in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not a subreddit, exactly, but I'm going to miss /u/poem_for_your_sprog and /u/Schnoodle_Doodle_Do. They made browsing so much better - I loved unexpectedly coming across one of their poems.

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Introduce yourself! (programming.dev)
 

In the interests of making this community home for those of us who are reddit refugees, let's go ahead and introduce ourselves.

Some suggested things to comment on/include in your introduction:

  • Tidyverse, base, or data.table?
  • Are you primarily a user, a developer, or in between?
  • How long have you been using R?
  • What other languages do you use?
  • What do you use R for? Statistics? generative art? data wrangling?
  • Are you using R primarily for work, fun, hobbies, or something else?
  • Are you a hex sticker collector? Why or why not?
  • Where are you on the data engineering <----> pure statistics continuum?
  • What's your favorite obscure package?
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Textbook: Statistical Computing using R and Python (srvanderplas.github.io)
 

Here's the textbook I use for my classes in R and Python (used to be R and SAS, and I couldn't just drop SAS without adding something else, so now I teach students both). Hoping it's helpful to anyone who is trying to learn R.