@anacondainc position in this issue is shameful, but RStudio isn't the R community and Anaconda isn't the Python community. Never has been R vs Python.
I'm transitioning my computational biology class to R for many reasons. One of them is that most of my students are women and/or URM and the #rstats community response to sexual assault has been much stronger than python's. If they want to get involved in a community, R is betterhttps://twitter.com/anacondainc/status/1124029706502909955 …
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I certainly agree that Rstudio isn't the R community and conda isn't the Python community. But I do think I'm tapping into something given the replies to this post:https://twitter.com/gdequeiroz/status/1117968309851279360 …
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I think Jupyter is doing more creative and community-driven work to make computing accessible to the masses than basically anyone, and I'll continue to teach with it. But I also really do feel that the swift response by a lot of prominent R users & developers is inspiring.
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You are! I really enjoyed the articles you posted to the Carpentries slack about RStudio on Digital Ocean. I teach in the cloud a lot, too, to meet my students tech needs (https://paleantology.com/2018/09/05/plan-c/ …). Glad you're on team Carpentries!
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Thanks a lot!! The #1 skill is to distinguish heroes and villains, and it's really nice to read that you know the difference and that you are in the academia. I teach too, and I always tell my students that respect and collaboration are more valuable than code :)
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And here is a post that explains how to install R in Ubuntu, Mac and Windows. It includes videos. https://blog.pacha.hk/2019/04/07/how-to-install-r-on-mac-ubuntu-and-windows/ …
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There's a pyopensci getting started. I hope they embody the same community spirit: http://www.pyopensci.org/ I think more of this type of thing where you can get help at the novice --> intermediate junction will make the community more equitable, so I'm jazzed to see this!
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Wow. Feel sorry for your students. R is a pain-in-the-ass compared to Python. It's like sentencing them to unending purgatory.
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Having taught and developed in both, I disagree. And given that R is more common in evolution, ecology and behavior literature, I needed justifications to teach in Python. Python is my first love, but R has eaten its lunch in a lot important ways for the learners I serve.
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It is the first choice for biostatistics
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