I use R at least a couple times a week. It gets the job done and I will be forever grateful for the tidyverse. That said, R can be goddamn frustrating at times

I use R at least a couple times a week. It gets the job done and I will be forever grateful for the tidyverse. That said, R can be goddamn frustrating at times because of the way the documentation is written. It would be nice to simply be able to query about a function and get a cogent help file that explains THE BASICS of how to use the function for the most common use-case(s). Instead, the help files try to be "canonical" and front-load a bunch useless technical detail-- like that something is an "S3" object. Still haven't figured out what that really means and, I expect, that knowing something is "S3" will NEVER help me out when I am in a jam and need a little help to do something simple because I forgot some data manipulation detail. Instead, I end up googling all the time connecting the dots all over the internet to get very simple stuffs done. At least now we have stackoverflow which, as vicious as it is, seems like Mister Rogers' Neighborhood compared to the old R mailing list.