Sounds you like have a very OO background. I'd strongly encourage you to learn more about functional programming (FP). I personally believe it's a very good fit

Sounds you like have a very OO background. I'd strongly encourage you to learn more about functional programming (FP). I personally believe it's a very good fit for the types of programming you commonly encounter in data science, and it leads to elegant and readable code. I've written a bit of an intro at http://r4ds.had.co.nz/iteration.html#for-loops-vs.functionals http://r4ds.had.co.nz/iteration.html#for-loops-vs.functional...