[clircle]

There is a reason that statisticians love R. It's because the alternative to R for statistical work is SAS, not python. Compared to SAS, R is a godsend.

[salamandersauce]

Honestly compared to python for statistical work R is a godsend. Pandas is kinda clunky and ggplot2 is IME more enjoyable than matplotlib.

[ptaken]

There's more to python plotting than matplotlib. Check out plotnine for example

I do agree though that pandas can be a pain sometimes...