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- There is also '->' which can be even more confusing (or helpful if you use pipes)

- Aren't those methods defined by each package/object? Or you mean '@'?

- RStudio (the most used IDE) is one of the reasons that I use R so heavily. Never encountered your problems. I can even git checkout to another branch without problems and the new versions are loaded without problem.

- For a quick descriptive analysis or some tests I don't know something easier, compared to SQL or Python. But that's probably only personal preferences and/or knowledge of the language.