Maybe because it already does what it intends to do reasonably well? I mean, what do you think needs to be improved?
"Does what it intends to do reasonably well" is going to be widely subjective, depending on whether the user's use-case is statistical/life-sciences vs more general purpose coding and relying on many packages; prototyping/experimentation vs production code; whether the user uses base-R, or tidyverse/data.table, etc.
Here are two of those many posts:
* An opinionated view of the Tidyverse “dialect” of the R language (July 5, 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362626
* The R programming language: The good, the bad, and the ugly (epatters.org, 2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35571659 -> https://www.epatters.org/post/r-lang/
That's a normal follow-up question that you should be able to answer. Otherwise, why are you even commenting?
Any criticism brought up you'd dismiss. Heres one: lack of native 64 bit integers.
I know it's not always easy to extricate oneself but it's helpful to remember that the only way to 'win' is to stop.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I know it's not always easy to extricate oneself but it's helpful to remember that the only way to 'win' is to stop.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.