[SoftTalker]

R is the most haphazard programming environment I've ever used. It feels like an agglomeration of hundreds of different people's shell aliases and scripting one-liners.

I'll grant my only exposure has been a two- or three-day "Intro to R" class but I ran screaming from that experience and have never touched it again.

It maybe worked against me that I am a programmer, not a statistician or researcher.

[pxc]

When I used it I was a computer science student. But I wasn't reading anyone else's code or trying to maintain anything complex, which is why I asked what I did. I'm sure there are quirks I never had to deal with.

So is it just that the stdlib is really big and messy?