An opinionated view of the Tidyverse "dialect" of the R language, and its promotion by RStudio.
Verfasst: Do Sep 26, 2019 2:24 pm
Ich bin mehr oder weniger zufällig auf einen Artikel von Norman Matloff gestossen, der fast exakt (und besser, als ich es formulieren könnte) meine Meinung zum "tidyverse" wiedergibt!
Hier ein paar Appetitanreger:
Hier ein paar Appetitanreger:
... I absolutely don't consider RStudio to be some evil cabal. I state at various places in this essay that I think their actions have been well-intentioned. Nevertheless, I believe that RStudio took a wrong turn when it decided to promote the Tidyverse, which has led to a situation in which the unity and health of the language is at stake.
In heavily promoting the Tidyverse, especially in the education realm, RStudio, with its dominance in the R field, is developing an entire new generation of R users whose skills in base-R are superficial at best, and who -- most importantly -- feel that R is the Tidyverse. This will shape the evolution of the language itself, in undesirable ways.
... RStudio is essentially operating as a monopolist. It's not a monopoly in the financial sense -- Tidyverse is not directly enhancing RStudio's profitability -- and, as noted, is not intentional. But the result is classicly monopolistic, in the sense of one product dominating a market, stifling innovation etc. The adverse impacts are very serious and worsening.
Bei Interesse findet Ihr den ganzen Artikel hier: [url]https://github.com/matloff/TidyverseSkeptic[/url]One key example of the pernicious effects of this monopolistic situation is that RStudio's promotion of the Tidyverse has alarmingly impeded the progress and adoption of technologically superior packages, notably data.table.