As a proficient R user, though, you probably agree that it makes a certain sense when you get into a rhythm. I think it surprisingly makes a lot of sense to so

As a proficient R user, though, you probably agree that it makes a certain sense when you get into a rhythm. I think it surprisingly makes a lot of sense to social scientists, in spite of seeming backwards to computer scientists. I remember being in school and using STATA, and just plugging in numbers to get through exercises too quickly to bother understanding what the labs were about. R seems to make you stop to realize what you are doing at the right moments, then uses a lot of magic to abstract away almost everything else.