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by BrokrnAlgorithm 1545 days ago
I used to do R intensly. What I found, after moving to more "SE"-centric languages such as Python or C++, was that R becomes quite frustrating when you need to build something maintainable. Which is basically a definition that should apply to every package. As soon as S3, R6 and whatnot comes into play at multiple levels, I'm better off moving to C in order to minimize interacting with R's class system and having that done only at the topmost layer.