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Apologies, my bad, but I'm a bit too late to edit. The experts say that R qualifies as a lazy language [1, 2].

My impression was that R was mostly an eager language that somehow allowed for laziness. I will research this further and hopefully suss out why I got confused.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3360579

[2] https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/07/about-lazy-evaluation/