R was the first thing we had in our syllabus for (shallow)Machine Learning. the ease of doing `model <- lm(speed~dist, cars)` and then `predict(model, data.fra

R was the first thing we had in our syllabus for (shallow)Machine Learning. the ease of doing `model <- lm(speed~dist, cars)` and then `predict(model, data.frame(dist = c(42)))` is unparalled.