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by Annatar 2612 days ago
"It doesn't make sense to invest time into R if one already knows python unless one specifically focusing on academia pure stats type stuff."

Ha! I knew it! So it is familiarity with Python then!

R does have something else going for it: phenomenal documentation and consistency. Replicating R's thousands of available libraries will be a gargantuan effort. It is cheaper and more efficient to master R.