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by vore 1819 days ago
I think the behavior is so wildly inconsistent that it's not really justifiable, regardless of being a statistician or not: https://github.com/tidyverse/design/issues/13#issuecomment-4...
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I mean compared to other languages these sorts of quirks might seem like big deals, but they rarely come up. You see that error, you copy paste and find a stack overflow thread explaining it, you know what to do next time and move on. R is certainly no C.