It's immature to rail on R for things like how its syntax doesn't look like that other language you already know, but yes, it's extremely quirky. And its unchec

It's immature to rail on R for things like how its syntax doesn't look like that other language you already know, but yes, it's extremely quirky. And its unchecked flexibility, while great for experts providing DSLs and such, enables non-programmers to produce garbage implementations. The vast majority of R's myriad community packages (R's biggest strength!) seem to be written by a grad student who read half a tutorial.