Tom Doris
If you're interested in UI work, ideally we'd have something similar to RStudio as an environment, a simple set of windows encapsulating an editor, a repl, a plotting panel and help/history, this sounds superficial but it really has an impact when you're exploring a data set and trying stuff out.
I agree, this sounds really nice.
I really disagree that we need a data frame type structure; they're an abomination in R, they try to accommodate event records and time series, and do neither well.
Just to clarify (since I think the original suggestion was mine), I don't want to copy R's data frame (which I never quite understood, anyway), but I'd like some standardized data structure, ideally with an option to label columns, and functions to slice and join. The underlying structure can just be a list of columns (Vector) or whatever. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants