Really, really confused about your take on documentation. 9/10 you have documentation in the form of a pkgdown site with examples, parameter definitions, change log, articles, etc.
Equally confused about your take on the community. R community is sort of a perfect example of an inclusive community actively trying to include everyone with organizations like “rladies” for women in tech.
As an experienced R programmer that doesn’t do much statistics or have a background in computer science. What language characteristics does R lack that makes it a DSL instead of GPL?
Edit: I found an interesting quote from a guy named Martin Fowler about the subject.
“Languages can have a domain focus but still be general-purpose languages. A good example of this is R, a language and platform for statistics; it is very much targeted at statistics work, but has all the expressiveness of a general-purpose programming language. Thus, despite its domain focus, I would not call it a DSL.”
Regarding first timers, I think that once they’re aware of RStudio and the content they put out, learning becomes much more friendly and modern.
Still, I definitely agree and would appreciate a modern manual on base R.