[jasonpbecker]

>> As someone who basically uses R as a nice LISP-y scripting language to orchestrate calling low-level compiled code from other languages

Except... this is exactly was R was created to do, with a focus on mathematical/statistical libraries written in things like FORTRAN.

R is great as a glue language for these purposes if the purpose of calling that low-level compiled code is largely to work with data and especially if that data is not so large/computationally intensive to work with that it does not need to be distributed across hardware.

[setgree]

I think I got a little confused by the language here, my mistake