I agree with the concerns about lists. They're a poor substitute for structs in a language with static typing. By now I've accumulated lots of knowledge and hel

I agree with the concerns about lists. They're a poor substitute for structs in a language with static typing. By now I've accumulated lots of knowledge and helper functions. You can dramatically simplify your life by using lists with lapply and related functions. I teach students with no previous programming experience to do some things that would otherwise be far too complex, but I also have to write a helper function to convert the output into a usable form for further analysis like plotting.