Maybe it's just me, but I find it difficult not to make analogies between R and JavaScript. Both are dynamic, "script" languages with C-based syntax and with LI

Maybe it's just me, but I find it difficult not to make analogies between R and JavaScript. Both are dynamic, "script" languages with C-based syntax and with LISP-like nature that lurks underneath it. Both have functions as first class citizens. Both are inconsistent in different ways. Just to name a few ... I think that these analogies reduced frustration that I had felt about R once when I "discovered" them and helped me to adopt and learn R.