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> - The ide crashes once an hour and does not detect file-changes which forces you to restart it manually.

There's more than one IDE for R [0], and strictly that's not a problem with R itself, but the people who built the IDE.

> - People say R is the best and optimized for data-analytics which is simply not true. It's a marketing-lie spread by the creators. There is no data-analytics-task that you cannot do with the same ease in other programming languages.

I think there's very little marketing behind R. It's predominantly a statistics package, but clearly a lot of statisticians are using it for data analysis. So I think it's people that using it for data analysis that talk about it, not bloggers paid to write about it.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1097367/what-ides-are-av...