I'm relatively new to technical writing and the discussion from all of these comments (yours included) has been really helpful for guiding how I write future posts.
HN is (in my experience) a lot more cynical and straightforward than other places[1]. It's something I've learned to appreciate and also take it with a grain of salt.
This is incredibly gracious feedback taking, a lesson in how not to be defensive.
I agree with you where some here don't. I think there are often better tools for any single data cleaning task.
R's strength is being second best at an enormous range of tasks (and often being first to get new techniques) and packaging that with analysis and visualization.
I'm relatively new to technical writing and the discussion from all of these comments (yours included) has been really helpful for guiding how I write future posts.
HN is (in my experience) a lot more cynical and straightforward than other places[1]. It's something I've learned to appreciate and also take it with a grain of salt.
1 = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863