a_statistician

Pola.rs is a Python package to interface with a Rust library, but it's evidently coming to R as well.

As I understand it, Polars is an alternative to wrangling libraries like data.table and dplyr. This book compares the syntax of the 3 libraries.

In the interests of making this community home for those of us who are reddit refugees, let's go ahead and introduce ourselves.

Some suggested things to comment on/include in your introduction:

• Tidyverse, base, or data.table?
• Are you primarily a user, a developer, or in between?
• How long have you been using R?
• What other languages do you use?
• What do you use R for? Statistics? generative art? data wrangling?
• Are you using R primarily for work, fun, hobbies, or something else?
• Are you a hex sticker collector? Why or why not?
• Where are you on the data engineering <----> pure statistics continuum?
• What's your favorite obscure package?

Here's the textbook I use for my classes in R and Python (used to be R and SAS, and I couldn't just drop SAS without adding something else, so now I teach students both). Hoping it's helpful to anyone who is trying to learn R.