Is R hated by anyone else? Do you have any advice on how to overcome it?

I’m in graduate school right now, and we use R for my statistics course. The lack of a universal syntax is something I detest. It seems disorganized. When I realize I need to use R, I roll my eyes and then run it through chatgpt before debugging; occasionally, I’ll just do it by hand in Python. Any advice?

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The main reason I enjoy R is Tidyverse’s consistent syntax and abundance of amazing packages.

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In addition, there are parallels between SQL and Dplyr verbs. In contrast to pandas syntax

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Especially with the snytax inconsistencies of Pandas in comparison.

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I was about to mention that although I dislike R, I enjoy Tidyverse enough to be a content user of the language.

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This is how I feel about Python Polars! I used to believe that I detested Python, but it turns out that my soul was shattered by pandas instead.

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Maybe I should switch to Polars…

I fucking hate Pandas