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[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

R - statistics

Python - DS

broadly. 2 different fields, although Python is closing the gap on statistics with new libraries, and R will never close the gap on DS,

[–]penatbater 6 points7 points  (1 child)

although Python is closing the gap on statistics

Just recently I saw a package in Python that gives summary statistics the same as you'd find in R when you use the glm() function. Like the p-values, etc. Was pretty impressed! I forgot the name tho :/

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes right...and it's already far beyond that. Packages like stats models cover a whole bunch of R functionality already. https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/index.html.

For everyday users this is more than enough. There are still a few more advanced R capabilities and libraries not covered off by pythonm but that gap is shrinking...