I'm totally with you on these points, and it's one of the places where R's genesis as a scheme program has lead to really, really good consequences. Fundamenta

I'm totally with you on these points, and it's one of the places where R's genesis as a scheme program has lead to really, really good consequences. Fundamentally though, both DS Python and R are abstractions over well-tested Fortran linear algebra routines (I'm sortof kidding, but only sortof).