You’ll get no argument from Bajuk that R and Python are good at different things. R has been around longer than Python and has a more mature group of statistical packages and libraries associated with ...

Yes, the Python community is much bigger and is more likely to pull R packages into the Python ecosystem than the reverse, but which you’ll use may ultimately be a question of and, not or.

The Python Package Index (PyPI) currently has over 183,000 projects, greatly outnumbering R packages available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). According to CRAN, there are 14,385 ...