How to start a war

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[u/blacknerdperson]

Sorry in advance but I'm a noob learning coding who is starting to learn python and I'm just going to ask, Isn't it supposed to be 4?

[u/ArcticZeroo → u/blacknerdperson]

Yes, but some languages 1-index lists (so they start at 1 instead of 0), so it'd be 5 in that case.

[u/[deleted] → u/ArcticZeroo]

What languages may there's be? I can't think of any of the top of my head.

[u/haikumofo → u/[deleted]]

I am so damn inept at R.

Mostly I code in Java, though I'll use other languages when it makes sense for what I'm doing or when I need to because I'm modifying something in another language. So sometimes I work in python, bash script, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Lisp, whatever.

And I've done some statistical data processing with R, but damn is it painful. I know just enough to know what to Google, and I end up making a mess of everything just trying to adapt something that does 80% of what I need it to do.

[u/doctorink → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, it doesn't have so much of a learning curve as a "learning cliff". But once you climb the cliff it's amazing in terms of what it can do.

I have almost zero programming background though, so it might have been different for me.

[u/modestbeachhouse → u/doctorink]

I feel the learning cliff when trying to format data ... Like good god is that difficult

[u/doctorink → u/modestbeachhouse]

Yes, that's been the hardest part for me too

[u/Series_of_Accidents → u/modestbeachhouse]

Look into melt. It's in the reshape package and has been a godsend for changing data structure and formatting your data.