R, unfortunately, is also one of the most ill-designed yet popular programming languages in existence. I would strongly recommend people to steer away from it. If you cherish your sanity stay away from using R!
Moreover after seeing what my colleagues publish as scientific R programs, I came to believe that science itself is bottlenecked by the large scale adoption by R and the sloppy, inconsitent and bug-infested programming practice that it encourages.
R does a few things well - cross-platform, plotting works on all platforms, packaging works well. But for actually programming it is atrocious.
Moreover after seeing what my colleagues publish as scientific R programs, I came to believe that science itself is bottlenecked by the large scale adoption by R and the sloppy, inconsitent and bug-infested programming practice that it encourages.
R does a few things well - cross-platform, plotting works on all platforms, packaging works well. But for actually programming it is atrocious.