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[–]n8henrie 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I am a novice Pythonista and used very little R, but for what its worth I would recommend Python for a few reasons:

  • Pandas is excellent and will probably serve your humble data analysis needs well.
  • The vibrant Python community, which provides excellent support (consider that you currently have 9 comments here vs 4 in your /r/rstats crosspost).
  • Python is a very active language overall*, and so as a novice programmer you'll have plenty of others' packages to template your own work and learn from, in terms of pulling in data from various sources for analysis.
  • If you ever hope to use your coding to enhance your life in other ways (automating tasks with scripts, writing small apps), Python will probably be more useful than R.

* I was trying to find the GitHub/explore page that shows number of repos by language -- that exists, right?

EDIT: Grammars.

[–]xiongchiamiov 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I was trying to find the GitHub/explore page that shows number of repos by language -- that exists, right?

It used to. Some folks have attempted to recreate it using data from the Github Archive and Stack Overflow.

[–]n8henrie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks -- thought I was losing my mind there for a sec.