I teach R in a graduate course. As long as you teach the concept of vectors right, and it’s not hard, you’ve overcome R’s main cognitive hurdle, in the eyes of

I teach R in a graduate course. As long as you teach the concept of vectors right, and it’s not hard, you’ve overcome R’s main cognitive hurdle, in the eyes of computer science people. The rest of R is beautiful, assuming a focus on the Tidyverse. Python feels like a mess by comparison. As a computer science type myself, my tribe’s provincialism towards “languages like C”, like Python, just gets old.