I'm learning R for fun at the moment. I'm sure it's super useful for statisticians but it's quite an intricate language! It's an unlikely mix of different parad

I'm learning R for fun at the moment. I'm sure it's super useful for statisticians but it's quite an intricate language! It's an unlikely mix of different paradigms and features mixed together. Not something I'd recommend to a beginner programmer, yet it seems that people love it (even non-programmers). I looked at several tutorials and what worked for me the best so far are the official manuals https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html (esp. the language definition and the "introduction to R"). Moreover, for the programming languages enthusiasts, the following article is pretty interesting: Evaluating the Design of the R Language (Morandat, Hill, Osvald, Vitek). "R is a dynamic language for statistical computing that combines lazy functional features and object-oriented programming. This rather unlikely linguistic cocktail would probably never have been prepared by computer scientists, yet the language has become surprisingly popular. With millions of lines of R code available in repositories, we have an opportunity to evaluate the fundamental choices underlying the R language design. Using a combination of static and dynamic program analysis we can assess the impact and success of different language features."