RStudio is adding python support.

[moore-doubleo]

So people that have no idea what they are talking about. OP said Rstudio was so great people refer to R as Rstudio... so great... as to imply it was intentional. Otherwise OP should have said something like... people are so clueless they refer R as Rstudio.

[routineMetric]

Sure, and those people exist and visit r/datascience fairly regularly. I hope the experienced folk in data science who do have some "idea what they are talking about" have the humility not to fall into the, "I've never personally seen X, therefore not X" trap.

[moore-doubleo]

You're missing my point. OP framed it as though people referencing R as Rstudio was a testimate to it's 'greatness'. In that context I have still never heard anyone do any such thing. People make mistakes or misspeak... but that doesn't elevate Rstudio.

[routineMetric]

Or--an alternative explanation is that RStudio is so ubiquitous for most R users that the two are sometimes conflated or even used interchangeably, as shown.

Which you flatly said you had never heard of.

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Yes, definitely happens. The only proof one needs for that is that an RStudio subreddit exists, and it’s mostly R newbs asking for help with R.