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Humble reminder of how easy R is to use. Download and install R for your operating system: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/

Start it in the terminal by typing:

Copy/paste the code from the article to see it run!

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R is my least favorite language to use, thanks to the uni courses that force it

https://github.com/ReeceGoding/Frustration-One-Year-With-R

Can't use R without RStudio. It so much better than the terminal.

Agree RStudio makes R a dream, but isn't necessary for someone to run the code in the article =)

really??? I've developed in R for over a decade using two terminal windows. One runs vim, the other runs R. Keyboard shortcuts to send R code from vim to R.

first google hit if you want to try this yourself: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/turning-vim-into-an-r-ide-...

Sooooooo much better than "notebooks". Hating on "notebooks" today.

>Humble reminder of how easy R is to use.

I had to learn R for a statistics course. This was a long time ago. But coming from a programming background I never found any other mainstream language as hard to grok as R.

Has this become better? Is it just me that doesn't get it?

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