Tradition among experienced S programmers has always been that loops (typically 'for' loops) are intrinsically inefficient: expressing computations without loops has provided a measure of entry into the inner circle of S programming.
-- John Chambers
Programming With Data, p. 173 (1998) #Rstats
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