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by jghn 4220 days ago
1) can always use environments! :)

Okay, I'll stop at 1).

Having used R for over 15 years now, the one "feature" which still makes me shake my head is the partial evaluation of function arguments. If function foo has an argument 'blah' and you say foo(bl=5), it'll autocomplete that to 'blah' if there's nothing better to use.

The number of bugs I've found due to that ....