I agree, the tooling can be clumsy. I'd wish for a language-wide standard to help with replicable R environments. Perhaps using conda makes sense here. But whe

I agree, the tooling can be clumsy. I'd wish for a language-wide standard to help with replicable R environments. Perhaps using conda makes sense here. But when you say the language isn't great, what exactly is the problem? IMO, R is a fascinating language from a programming perspective. The combination of first class environments, lexical scoping, non-standard evaluation and metaprogramming allows for extremely performant and expressive domain specific languages, e.g. data.table, tidyverse and ggplot.