“They’ll take your soul if you let them — don’t let them.” (Carole King, You’ve Got a Friend) Photo by Jelleke Vanooteghem. I used R for almost every single computational task I do on my computer in the past ten years. I use R for things that are not simply statistics (pun intended), but everything related to data, or everything that can be done programmatically. Recently, I found a fascinating thread posted in the r/rstats …