Oh no, R as a general purpose language, argh! I mean yeah whatever floats your boat but I find it torturous for anything other than as a specialist platform fo

Oh no, R as a general purpose language, argh! I mean yeah whatever floats your boat but I find it torturous for anything other than as a specialist platform for doing linear algebra - aka statistical analysis. I got a nice half hour meeting with one of the core R developers a few years ago back when I was pretending to be an academic - he was a regular collaborator with one of the senior academics in the business school that most of my work was coming from at the time.