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Comment by vegabook

Downside of all the ggplot-alikes in languages other than R is that they lose the enormous number of amazing add-on libraries[1] available for the original. Personally, where it's better I do a lot of data crunching in Python, then export to R and do all my graphics there. I feel like the statistics crowd just appreciates graphics more and has spent more time getting it perfect. Another plus is that Copilot really helps with R-based ggplot semantics and options because it's got so much to learn from. Not sure that would be true for the subtle differences in the ggplot clones.

[1] https://youtu.be/7UjA_5gNvdw

parent vegabook 3 years ago

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