Just a slight technical note -- Ben gave you a good answer already, imo. The note is: R is Turing complete, which mean that *anything* any language can do, R could be programmed to do also. The point is what can be done well in R and what can be done (often much) better with other tools, as Ben explained.
Cheers, Bert On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 5:17 AM akshay kulkarni <akshay...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > dear Members, > I have recently started studying SQL and MySQL. > My question is, what exactly is SQL used for? That is, whatever can be done > by SQL, like subsetting and filtering of data sets, can also be done by R. > What's, then, the advantage of SQL? It is OK if you tag this question as > offtopic, but I could'nt find any info on the web. Can you please refer me to > some online resources that shed some light on this? Finally, how does SQL > complement R? Are both dependent? > > THanking you, > Yours sincerely, > AKSHAY M KULKARNI > > [https://s-install.avcdn.net/ipm/preview/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif]<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > > Virus-free.www.avast.com<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
