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The lack of data structures in R is a totally fixable problem.

• capnrefsmmat 11y ago
  Sure, through packages, but you'd need to adapt the entire standard library to take advantage of them, so you could pass new data structures to built-in functions and get meaningful results. Generic iterators would also be extremely useful to build in, so it's easy to work with a wide variety of structures.
  • hadley 11y ago
    And generic functions allow you to fill in those missing pieces from a package too.