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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by Animats on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:31AM (#17309756)
HN is predisposed to hate R because everyone here is coming from a "real" programming context.

There is that. Matlab has the same problem.

One problem with "real programming languages" is that programmers who grew up with C don't see any need for built-in multidimensional arrays. This is one reason FORTRAN is still around, and why array work is straightforward in Matlab and R.

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Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R by int_19h on Thursday June 14, 2018 @04:13AM (#17310196)
It seems to be partly because they're rarely used in general purpose code even when they are there. Just look at C#.
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