Title: I&#x27;ve read a lot about the APL languages, but never used them because I felt they were too specialized. Recently, I&#x27;ve been roped into some projects using R. I fully understand why R is so popular in statistics departments, but programming in R has been the most migraine inducing experience I&#x27;ve ever had with a language.<p>Since R is an array language, I though maybe an APL family language would work as a replacement. It wouldn&#x27;t have the multitude of libraries that R has, but would have a clean design. Note that I am not thinking of this as an alternative for the typical R user, who is a non-programmer and for whom R is their first and possibly last language. I&#x27;m thinking of a moderatly experienced programmer who is faced with a data analysis task.<p>Some APL derivatives, like J and Dyalog APL, have had their capabilities extended well beyond simple array juggling. How are they, compared to R, as data analysis environments?
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