Asking for library/software recommendations is explicitly off topic. See: help center, How to Ask. — AMC 21 secs ago

@GetSet we're all programmers i know, some of us are seniors and others still learning, the only difference between all of us is human decency, there's those who criticize based on correct judgments, and others who criticize because they've been criticized so much that they wanna do it to everybody for no reason. — wassim 50 secs ago

@Skullomania: you can ask this question on: softwarerecs.stackexchange.com — Hooman Bahreini 17 secs ago

The backslash is the MAIN example... R is such a "borked-up" language, and the pandemonium persists. How many bad languages does it take to screw up many generations of programmers? Python solves this so easily and nicely with the r'string' notation. Why can't the R core community just adopt a ( r"\New" ) notation that works? — Rich Lysakowski PhD 18 secs ago

So why hasn't somebody done it? Or why haven't people implored the R compiler writers to include Python-like raw strings in the language specification? What a breakthrough and a new social justice that would be for the R masses !! In the meantime Pythonistas are spending / wasting less time than R Programmers trying to escape (literally) silly string problems or asking questions hopeful questions on StackOverflow. Instead, Pythonistas are moving on to solving bigger problems at an ever-increasing rate. — Rich Lysakowski PhD 35 secs ago

Of course programmers work in (insert any subject here). — GetSet 59 secs ago

Is there a good place to ask this question to a community of programmers? — bubblewrap 53 secs ago

Wrong site, maybe try SoftwareEngineering — Michael Randall 24 secs ago

@RobG I see. I thought keeping it simple is what we programmers should try and aim for. If this solves the issue, why do you need the date library? Anyway I am pretty sure an onSubmit/onClick is required to do any sort of preprocessing. — Rutwick Gangurde 28 secs ago

Overly complex and memory hog are also things however. Learning to be precise and code carefully are also worthy goals, and depending on the application might be required. A blanket "don't do it" for something simple like array manipulations seems wrongheaded to me as a mentor and teacher of new programmers. — ggb667 54 secs ago

Here's a nice thread that covers this topic softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/120355/… — rhowell 40 secs ago

Expanding on Eljay's comment above: Why should C++ programmers minimize use of 'new'? — user4581301 44 secs ago

This strikes me as a question more appropriate for the software engineering SE — osuka_ 29 secs ago

I don't disagree that it appears that way ... but if this is ever productionized (used in an automated fashion where it is feasible that it is just mylist <- c("TI - a", "AU - b"), then I argue it's much better to be defensive up-front. Also, with "budding programmers", I find it best to recommend solutions that are more robust ... or at least note the assumption in the answer. I personally would be interested in some "agent" in R that looks for the use of 1:length(...) and produces a message or warning, to warn of potential problems ... perhaps that's the "Hal9000" of R parsers :-) — r2evans 39 secs ago

Your last sentence will get your question closed. Do not ask for software recommendations. Please delete that part. What topics can I ask about here? — Rob 49 secs ago

Note that software recommendations are offtopic here. This may be appropriate on the software recommendation site, or a site like Reddit. — Carcigenicate 28 secs ago

Asking for software recommendations is explicitly off topic. See: help center, How to Ask. — AMC 13 secs ago

Microsoft are using their confused non-standard version of it, while at the same time displaying confused warnings when using well-documented, perfectly safe standard functions. Maybe the worlds' C programmers can do a fundraiser to arrange lots of free booze for the MS people, every night before a C2x community meeting? :) — Lundin 40 secs ago

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“I am trying to avoid writing this at all by finding something that already exists” – StackOverflow is mainly about writing your own code. Asking for software recommendations is off-topic. — Stefan 54 secs ago

Please note that Stack Overflow is for programming questions only. You may want to try over at Software Recommendations. — kaylum 7 secs ago

@qwerty_so thanks for the typo. About ECB and MVC, it's true htat there are similarities. But I'd me more careful as I explained here — Christophe 28 secs ago

Your code will be easier to understand by most python programmers if you use PEP8 naming standards (ie: data should be Data). — Bryan Oakley 30 secs ago

Don't dynamically name variables based on the values of other variables. Not only is that not python best practices, that's against software engineering in general best practices. That will make your code a nightmare to debug and maintain in the future. — Rashid 'Lee' Ibrahim 7 secs ago

Programmers never use utf-8 symbols in path. As well as spaces. — Nikolay Shmyrev 15 secs ago