> single-handedly There are many people in the R community working on this together (e.g. Jenny Bryan, Charlotte, etc). > lapply(), sapply(), tapply(), vapply

> single-handedly There are many people in the R community working on this together (e.g. Jenny Bryan, Charlotte, etc). > lapply(), sapply(), tapply(), vapply() each does something different. The apply situation has been standardized through the purrr lib and dplyr for a long time. They are base library functions that aren't mandatory. > two kinds of assignment operators even Consider the custom of using <-. It reduces the kinds of assignment operators to 1. Similar to avoiding from lib import * in python. You can do it, but there are community standards against it.