There's a difference, in my mind, between "Programmers" and "Invokers of Code". R is a terrible programming language. It's not a bad language for invoking cod

There's a difference, in my mind, between "Programmers" and "Invokers of Code". R is a terrible programming language. It's not a bad language for invoking code, because for many of those people, they're not taught the concepts behind any language, so it's all semi-arbitrary symbols. model <- lm(outcome ~ variable1 + variable2 + variable3, data=data) summary(model) Isn't any more complex than anything else. And what R does have is a network effect - at this point, for almost any statistical task I've ever encountered, there's R code for it.