[mespe]

While I agree with many of the negative comments here about issues with how this is implemented, the tone of some comments is... not great. To the point that I would be reluctant to share work I do in R on Hacker News, which is not helping anyone.

Just a reminder: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[h2odragon]

No kidding. Seems like an elegant solution to a potential problem to me. I've only used R at the "poke stick at numbers" level, but this would have been a useful addition to that trivial use.