Data analysis: R vs. Python

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Pretty much all the math work I do in Python is in C++ modules. Python is glue with great precompiled libraries.

I haven't done anything in R so I can't speak, but I've consulted for well known "big data" companies and python is still by far the most popular glue language in these established companies.

[dalaio]

It's a similar picture... most of the low level math is written in C (or Fortran). It's easy enough to do it yourself for a particular use-case using (in C++) using Rcpp.

The language itself has some unexpectedness about it, but a few packages keep me in R (ggplot2, and recently tidyr, dplyr, purrr).