Comment by blubber

3 days ago

No, it's not. Even established packages have bugs caused by R weirdness. I like it nevertheless.

Yes, R is a proper general purpose programming language. Turing complete, functional, procedural, object oriented.../

  • Just in case someone reads this far and sees blubber's confident "No." Blubber is definitely wrong here. I used to do all of my programming in R. Throw the question into an LLM if you're wondering if R has a package like ___ in python.

    • I know people who used Visual Basic for all of their programming. I'd say No either way unless people explained to me without bursting out into laughter that they also have extensive experience with, e.g., Kotlin, Rust, C#, Java etc. and still prefer VB or R for non-trivial programs.

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