What Are Some of the Pros and Cons of R?
With just about any program out there, there are going to be advantages and disadvantages. Your interviewer is not necessarily looking for all of the pros and cons, nor is he or she necessarily expecting you to name specific features. Your interviewer is just using this as another question to test the extent of your knowledge, so be sure to know some pros and cons before heading into your interview. For example, you can say that many programmers like R because it’s free, widely accessible, and has built-in functionality via R packages. For disadvantages, you may want to point out that there are some security flaws, and that it is also open-source, which some people even consider a disadvantage. Keep it simple by thinking about what you personally like about R, and what you don’t.
