My background:
I am a biologist coming to R via Bioconductor. I have no computer background in computer sciences and only basic undergraduate training level in statistics.
I have used R with great pleasure and great pains. The most difficult thing is to know what functions to use - sometimes I know that one function is most likely available, but there's really no easy way to get it (yes, even going to the archives and reading the help files). I feel that more examples in the help files would definitely be a good way to fully understand the potencial of the functions. I know how difficult this is to do and how much of a time sink it must be.
One thing I defeinitely think would be a great improvement is to have a beefed up Object Explorer as Splus does. I think it's the great advantage of Splus when compared to R is to have much easier access to what type of object, col names, classes and so on there are. And how much easier it is to change all these attributes in Splus. I think R 2.0 in Mac did a lot to improve this, but I think that for someone that very frequently needs to know whether the object created turned out to be a vector or a list, the easy access to objects is very, very, very important and would be a great improvement in the ease of use of R.
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