R seems to have taken Perl&#x27;s &quot;there&#x27;s more than one way to do it&quot; as a credo, all of the official documentation I&#x27;ve seen seems to be an exercise in trying to say as little as possible with as many words as can be managed, all of the syntax seems to be deliberately designed to make no sense whatsoever and I can give it a task that JMP (no speed demon it) can finish in under an hour and not get results back after letting it churn for nearly a day. Everything about R makes me wonder what I&#x27;ve done with my life to end up using it.