nutshell42

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1. 1.▲
   by nutshell42 3y ago

   > The distinction between warning, stop etc seems odd. The option to stop on warnings isn't useful because older packages seem to abuse warnings as messages. Use suppressWarnings() to silence misbehaving functions or withCallingHand
2. 2.▲
   by nutshell42 3y ago

   > Functions like sapply vs mapply are tricky to reason about from the documentation alone. Could you please expand on that? It's unclear what you're referring to. > The values NA vs Null vs integer(0) are all used as standin
3. 3.▲
   by nutshell42 3y ago

   Finally a real reason. A lot of the stuff above was complaining about issues where Python is a lot worse than R, about non-issues or with a fundamental misunderstanding of the language. I'd given up hope of seeing a real weakness named