Comment by MostlyStable
Comment by MostlyStable a day ago
I'm someone who enjoys figuring out the details of making a nice looking plot (in base R, I can't stand ggplot), but even as someone who enjoys it, LLMs are pretty much good enough that if I explain to them how I want the plot to look and how my data is structured, they can generate code that works first shot. It seems to me that, at this point, if you are already doing some coding in one of the above languages but either don't like or aren't comfortable making the plots using them, that LLMs can solve it for you. Unless they are significantly worse in the non-R options (which could be the case, It wouldn't surprise me if R has more plotting examples in the training set than the other languages).
Sorry for the off-topic question but would you mind to elaborate on why you can't stand ggplot? I personally haven't spent too much time with the r base functions but have come to absolutely adore ggplot for graphing and am thus very interested in learning about potential reasons to use r base plotting functions instead!