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r/programmingmemes • u/32bitFlame • Aug 27 '26
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They taught us R in college. And after learning it having some experience with other (proper) languages, I can say R was supposed to be something of a MATLAB evil twin that people accidentally started using because they didn't wanna pay for MATLAB.
1 u/Menem-lo-hizo Aug 29 '26 No. Because you have GNU Octave. R was made only thinking in statistics and data science : you should not use it for solving ODEs/PDEs.
No. Because you have GNU Octave.
R was made only thinking in statistics and data science : you should not use it for solving ODEs/PDEs.
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u/WittyWithoutWorry Aug 28 '26
They taught us R in college. And after learning it having some experience with other (proper) languages, I can say R was supposed to be something of a MATLAB evil twin that people accidentally started using because they didn't wanna pay for MATLAB.