Ah, you make really good points about non-programming people not thinking about R as a "programming language" and thus approaching it without fear.
I'm familiar with exactly the same phenomemon in the hardware verification world, where new tools and languages keep being invented just so that validation engineers can relax that they're not expected to "program" in a real language.
I'm familiar with exactly the same phenomemon in the hardware verification world, where new tools and languages keep being invented just so that validation engineers can relax that they're not expected to "program" in a real language.