> install RStudio and are off to the races, with a helpful package installation GUI. Unless the package needs a native component like libcurl of particular ver

> install RStudio and are off to the races, with a helpful package installation GUI. Unless the package needs a native component like libcurl of particular version then it can turn into couple of hours of blindly trying everything you can think of. > Another great example: in R, data types are pretty fungible, everything is a vector, Unless it's a dataframe or factor or string or s3, s4 or s5 or a couple of other things. And the documentation will tell you the reference paper that you can read and some completely impractical example. Ugh, feels better now, sorry for the rant.