Why you shouldn’t use R
Welcome back! R is one of my favorite languages out there, I even made this article talking about why it’s awesome:
Now, it’s time to be a bit critical of this language, let’s talk about why you shouldn’t use R. Personally, I use R all of the time, but it’s not perfect, so let’s see why you shouldn’t use it.
Niche Capability
This specific portion is one that I personally have experience with on an everyday basis, essentially the capability behind R (although powerful) is fairly niche. Essentially, R is very good at data related tasks, if you want to clean some data, graph those outputs, or even develop a data application (RShiny) you have that capability, the problem is when you want to do anything outside of that. Compared to a language like Python, you have far less capability in a language like R outside of data related tasks, is this a reason to not learn R? Absolutely not, but it’s still a little annoying.
