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Why I Dislike R
Welcome back! So the other day I talked about Why I Love R, well now let’s look at some of my frustrations with this language. First off, I love this language! it is one of my favorite programming languages I use, but it isn’t perfect, so let’s look at some of my least favorite things about this language!
The Slight Syntax Differences
If anyone has coded in R you know exactly what this is, within R there are some syntaxes that are so minor to code out, but are so major they may break the project, let’s take a look at this following code:
= or <- or <<-All three of those symbols pretty much do the same thing, they are left assignments, the opposite would be:
-> or ->>For some reason these things always throw me off, when I have questions and I Google them, i’ll end up replicating a lot of that code and when I look over the code, I have a bunch of <- / <<- / = all over the place, making my code very inconsistent. This is definitely an issue for me as a coder but is still a pretty annoying thing for sure.
