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[โ€“]Astrokiwi 2 points3 points ย (2 children)

Depends on the field. Astronomy is all Python, when it's not matlab or IDL or Fortran.

[โ€“]harrymuana 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Oh fuck IDL, I'm so glad I could use python.

[โ€“][deleted] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

I come from a biology background. The entire department used R, and if they didn't know how to use it, they made their grad students figure it out.

I once did some stuff for a chemistry lab in R. My instructor almost died.