R programming language

“It's an amazing language for answering complex questions using data.”

“R is Lisp with a nice syntax. Much more readable and still very powerful.”

“I love R and the various things people do with it.”

“R was much nicer once you had your data, and if all you had to do was transform it”

“If you primarily care about statistical modeling, then R still wins (easily).”

“the environment to run "R" has quite the learning curve.”

“slowly its strengths are coming through”

“It looked weird to me but I didn't mean to sound so negative.”

“The language itself is also very simple and has defaults that people don't even bother changing”

“Using R for our undergrads in time of LLMs is brilliant.”

“it is the programming language of choice for people who don't assume that their expertise on one domain”

“R is tricky in that regard since it feels like a mix of OOP and DOP variants”

“The R language is just so much more beautiful than Python, in its full lispy goodness, with lazy evaluation.”

“it's still great for data science work”

“A sign of a brilliant tool is when an idiot can get more done with it than an expert can with alternatives.”

“it felt somewhat, more complete, and organized than Python”

“To produce plots out of data files, Python and R are probably the best solutions.”

“R and Python are done in five minutes on the standard worker and it was easy”

“R has much better data structures than Python for data processing”

“It would be the slowest language result on the list.”

“that made caret and glm modules so easy to use”

“No other modern language will compete with R on ergonomics because of how it allows functions to read the context they’re called in”

“It's a lovely language for cleaning and analyzing data, and the core development team keeps making improvements.”

“a much more human legible syntax that doesn’t require huge numbers of nested parentheses”

“part of it's charm, where else can you see the generic function approach to OOP in a language that's still evolving?”

“R is simply badly designed as a programming language.”

“Vectorized-by-default can avoid a lot of boilerplate.”

“R's design purpose is different. it is a general purpose computational language for scientists.”

“I used to do all of my programming in R.”

“Yes, R is a proper general purpose programming language. Turing complete, functional, procedural, object oriented”

“R is overtly and heavily inspired by Lisp which was a big deal in AI at one point.”

“In my experience R is king of happily chugging along spitting out nonsense results when it should have errored 100 lines ago.”

“Even established packages have bugs caused by R weirdness.”

“I'd actually see this as a disadvantage of R because you suddenly have to jump through loops”

“In my limited experience, Using R feels like to using JavaScript in the browser”

“R is a serious general purpose programming language that is great for building almost any type of complex scientific software with”

“R's the best, bc it's been a statistical analysis language from the beginning in 1974”

“R is pretty convoluted as a language.”

“R is so good in part because of the efforts of people like Di Cook, Hadley Wickham, and Yihui Xie”

“There are many data-science tasks I’d much rather do in R than in Python.”