I’d say one of the major problems I have with R is when people try to use it as a general purpose language. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It jus

I’d say one of the major problems I have with R is when people try to use it as a general purpose language. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It just wasn’t designed that way. I’ve seen a lot of R code that would have been trivial to write and execute significantly faster in another language. But for its domain, I think R is great. I guess when all you have is a hammer...