STATISTICS

Not a major post here, just me posting about realising I’ve been making a large mistake. I’ve been struggling with R (A statistical programming language) recently, and I believe I have discovered why: I’ve not been treating it as a programming language! It’s all very well me knowing it’s Turing-complete, but I’ve been treating it as a glorified calculator with a rather poor syntax. Today, whilst struggling to write a foreach loop, a realisation as to why “apply” is better than looping has finally led to me treating it as a programming language! This has made making progress today so much easier. The fact this makes me very happy means I’m a massive nerd and that makes me even happier!