> I see R users (typically PhD students and post-docs) doing "science" in R by playing with parameters to functions in poorly-understood packages and publishing

> I see R users (typically PhD students and post-docs) doing "science" in R by playing with parameters to functions in poorly-understood packages and publishing papers on which parameters are "best" for data generated from some specialty source. That's a lot of bioinformatics, and not specific to R. It is a huge issue with anything vaguely pushbutton in the bioinformatics domain.