The points the author mentions are fair but something feels amiss. I have used R heavily and still use it from time to time and I never use most of the function

The points the author mentions are fair but something feels amiss. I have used R heavily and still use it from time to time and I never use most of the functions mentioned in the post. For instance I have never used switch(). R is for data manipulation. 90% of what I do in R is manipulate dataframes or matrices and then run machinelearningmodel(mydataframe) or ggplot(mydataframe). And for this it is incredibly efficient. You can rightly argue that some elements of the language are quirky but that's missing the point. > Asked over 100 Stack Overflow R questions. As a tangent I find a hundred questions asked the first year for a very mature language is a lot.