I‘ve had few problems with R on my 2020 13’ Macbook but several of my coworkers have struggled with R on theirs. Some of them are very new to programming and likely get stumped by what I would consider “simple“ bugs.
Installing even common packages like data.table require mucking around with R's makevars. There's no common set of variables that "just work", since different packages need different compilers to install.
