[wodenokoto]

R is a great language with a powerful, but very dated standard library.

But don’t worry about R bringing science down - the scientific community can also write terrible python code.

[xvilka]

This is why static analyzers, various linters, etc should become accessible and enforceable. Python or R, Julia or Fortran. It is time to force scientific developers to live in the same world the rest of development lives.