[arminiusreturns]

I see a lot of people hating on R or on R-studio. For those people, I'm curious what you would posit as an alternative?

I have liked R because I use it simply, inside emacs org-mode code source blocks which use either R to generate plots or gnuplot. Based on comments, now I am afraid I will reach some ceiling in R. What else is there? Octave? Sage? Julia?

[malshe]

If you read the comments, it’s just one guy giving his opinion on every comment without any supporting evidence.

[xvilka]

Not hating the R, but from what you listed Julia comes the closest and the best designed of all. Octave is bound to be MATLAB compatible, this prevents language innovation. Sage is bound by being "a middle ground" for all third-party languages and frameworks it incorporates. Julia language is cleaner.