What are you talking about? Of course it was written in lower-level, compiled languages. Is it any different than Python? Javascript? Perl? As for the "easy it

What are you talking about? Of course it was written in lower-level, compiled languages. Is it any different than Python? Javascript? Perl? As for the "easy iterop with other languages": [1] So, how is R different from Python? Also, it's not true that R wasn't designed for writing software. Even a critical "pamphlet" by Pat Burns [2] states otherwise. For writing statistical software, yes. -- [1] https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratingPythonWithOtherLanguages https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratingPythonWithOtherLangu... [2] https://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Present/infernoishR_annotated.pdf https://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Present/infernoishR_annotat...