Sometimes packages have functions that don’t do the things the way you want them to do them and you have to either re-build the function, or work with it as-is and add code around it to solve your issue.

People use R for lots of reasons: “It’s great for the models I need”, “I like the functional approach”, “It’s the tool I’m most comfortable with”.

Now that we have some datatypes, we can start learning what we can do with them.