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Hey, I always found it a strength of R compared to many other langaugas that simple things (running a script, doing something interactive, writing a function, using lambdas, installing packages, getting help, ...) are very very simple. R is a commandline statistics program that happens to be a very elegant, simple and consistent programming language too. That beeing...

In R scripts (as opposed to packages), even in reproducible scripts, it seems fairly conventional to use the global workspace as a sort of main function, and thus R scripts often populate the global environment with many variables, which may be mutated. Although this makes sense given R has historically been used interactively and this practice is common for scripting languages, this appears to