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Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 7 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Non-standard evaluation makes functions hard to write and debugUnreviewed
20202026- Non-standard evaluation is confusing when writing new functions, even in base R2021-07-11
- Non-standard evaluation with symbols is hard to build on and manipulate2020-09-09
- Non-standard evaluation makes functions hard to write, confusing for newcomers, and bug-prone2020-01-06
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 9 complaints
- Must learn new verbs and symbol interpolation systems that keep changing2024-01-09
- Chained joins produce 4-5 warnings that push results off screen2023-04-09
- Hard to learn and look up how to use specific functions2022-03-22
- Documentation is impenetrable and hard to understand2022-03-22
- Building new functions on it needs repeated lookups of changing NSE quoting approaches2022-03-22
- Core reshaping functions were extremely confusing, forcing a later API change2021-12-17
- Non-standard evaluation is confusing when writing new functions, even in base R2021-07-11
- Non-standard evaluation with symbols is hard to build on and manipulate2020-09-09
- Non-standard evaluation makes functions hard to write, confusing for newcomers, and bug-prone2020-01-06