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I’m (usually) a fan of the R programming language, though in a few ways it lacks features computer scientists expect. For example, R lacks many data structures provided by high-level languages, such as trees, queues, and stacks. This is somewhat complicated by R’s functional nature–R programmers expect data structures to be “persistent,” such that previous versions of the structure are available even after insertions or deletions. Fortunately, data structures in purely-functional languages (gene...