nanxstats / r-base-shortcuts

⚡ Base R shortcuts: A collection of lesser-known but powerful idioms and coding patterns for writing concise and fast R code
https://nanx.me/blog/post/r-base-shortcuts/
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Final Comments on R-Insight Series #8

Closed brichard1638 closed 1 year ago

brichard1638 commented 1 year ago

With all due respect, I find you to be excessively myopic in your interpretive application of R functions. Your position is that you are only interested in base R functions for the creation and development of production code? That is my interpretation based on your email responses to my R-Insight series.

And you [REDACTED]? I hope your [REDACTED].

You probably don't know this but there is a separate R package that actually provides improved functionality for many of the Base R functions that you are interested in promoting. The functions provided in Base R are nearly a quarter century old but that is what you are promoting on your r-base-shortcuts page? Wow.

I believe your current mindset is grossly marinated in a state of ignorance and static thinking. R has radically changed over the last decade in both its function and its form.

New ways of thinking are being instituted in R on nearly a weekly basis. I am monitoring these changes in near real-time.

I will no longer be contributed ideas to this page as the thinking supporting it is grossly misinformed. The good news is that I will never be competing for a job or a project against you or anyone who thinks like you in such a limited fashion about technology. Anyone who thinks more broadly about these technologies has an extraordinary edge on those who think like you. Your thinking on this matter needs to be seriously adjusted.

And keep promoting the rle function as the function to use for run-length encoding because that function nets you nothing in terms of RLE analysis.

Stay myopic and statically defined by using 25 year-old functions in R.

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