I think what people miss about R is that if you go on with an object oriented for loop way of writing code like a lot of python devs tend to do, you are going t

I think what people miss about R is that if you go on with an object oriented for loop way of writing code like a lot of python devs tend to do, you are going to have a bad time. You write functional code and make use of various apply functions instead of loops, it’s going to be very performant. A lot of it is wrapping C.