[JVerstry]

I learned R coming from Java, Node, PHP and Python and I love it !!! It is awful as an application development programming language, but it was never designed for that purpose. It was designed for STATISTICS. Try to achieve advanced statistics with your traditional software engineer's preferred language and see which language you hate then. The only tricky R concepts to learn for newbies are: recycling, formulas and vectorized functions. Add RevoScaleR to R and it kicks major ass when dealing with big data manipulation. Oh yes, big time !!!

[AlexCoventry]

I'll take python over R any time.

[curiousgal]

Any recommended ressources for Learning those concepts?

[sdabdoub]

Hadley Wickham's R for Data Science[1] is a generally good starting reference.

[1] http://r4ds.had.co.nz/