I've written some R both for small interactive scripts and running in production, it wasn't the first language I learned - R gets some things done very well; it

I've written some R both for small interactive scripts and running in production, it wasn't the first language I learned - R gets some things done very well; it also has some idiosyncracies, there is stuff that is clearly patched up together and exists for backwards compatibility, and there are many ways to do the same thing in R. If you don't expect it to be perfect, it gets the job done - nothing to write home about and certainly not a language that you should avoid at all costs.