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On the other hand, base R has to maintain (some degree of?) compatibility with S. Which means that all the strange design choices and weird behaviour in base R
by 0xd171 7y ago
On the other hand, base R has to maintain (some degree of?) compatibility with S. Which means that all the strange design choices and weird behaviour in base R have little hope of ever changing. No number of additional packages can fix this.
- tylermw 7y agoThere is one nice thing about R core's focus on maintaining backwards compatibility, however: code from a decade ago (more often than not) will run without a hiccup on current versions of R. Related tweets: https://twitter.com/hrbrmstr/status/1124016682413039616 https://twitter.com/hrbrmstr/status/1124016682413039616 https://twitter.com/hrbrmstr/status/1122186751987073025 https://twitter.com/hrbrmstr/status/1122186751987073025