I code in R. Some people may roll their eyes and say that R is not “programming” in the strictest sense of the word. Fair enough. Call it scripting, data analysis, applied bioinformatics, computational statistics. But in the end, it is still code: you write instructions, build functions, organize data, fix errors, and try to make a machine do something that, until a moment before, existed only in your head. And I have spent a lot of time with R. During my PhD, I was practical