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Re:Don't Enforce R as a Standard by hadley on Friday April 03, 2015 @10:46PM (#9319714)
Badly written R is impenetrable. So is badly written R. I suspect your standards for so-so R code are vastly different to mine.

R and Python really are very similar as languages. R is more functional, but that shouldn't impede your ability to understand code (once you master some of the basic idioms of FP)

Re:Don't Enforce R as a Standard by rjurney on Friday April 03, 2015 @11:37PM (#9319802)
I can't actually comment on what is good/bad R code, because I've never seen any R code beyond a few lines that I could follow.