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C vs R: What are the differences?

Developers describe C as "One of the most widely used programming languages of all time". . On the other hand, R is detailed as "A language and environment for statistical computing and graphics". R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible.

C and R belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

"Performance" is the primary reason why developers consider C over the competitors, whereas "Data analysis " was stated as the key factor in picking R.

AdRoll, Twitch, and Redis Labs are some of the popular companies that use C, whereas R is used by AdRoll, Instacart, and Verba. C has a broader approval, being mentioned in 64 company stacks & 251 developers stacks; compared to R, which is listed in 128 company stacks and 97 developer stacks.

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What is C?

What is R?

R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible.

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Why do developers choose C?

Why do developers choose R?

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Performance
37
Low-level
28
Portability
26
Hardware level
13
Embedded apps
10
Pure
5
Ubiquity

62
Data analysis
50
Graphics and data visualization
42
Free
32
Great community
30
Flexible statistical analysis toolkit
21
Access to powerful, cutting-edge analytics
18
Easy packages setup

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What are the cons of using C?

What are the cons of using R?

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Low-level
2
No built in support for concurrency
2
No built in support for parallelism (e.g. map-reduce)

4
Very messy syntax
1
Tables must fit in RAM
1
Messy character encoding
0
Messy syntax for string concatenation
0
Messy syntax for array/vector combination
0
No push command for vectors/lists
0
Poor syntax for classes

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What are some alternatives to C and R?

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

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benyomin uses

What are my other choices for a vectorized statistics language. Professor was pushing SAS Jump (or was that SPSS) with a menu-driven point and click approach. (Reproducibility can still be accomplished, you publish the script generated by all your clicks.) But I want to type everything, great online tutorials for R. I think I made the right pick.

papaver uses

been programming in c for over a decade, since learning it in college. still use it for various low level projects. used it recently to develop an embedded application for a custom board.