[leereeves]

> there's some nonsense interspersed here, e.g. the claim that R has "a more mature package universe" than Python.

As a programmer, I find R hard to use and not very well designed, so I can see why you'd call that nonsense.

But when I was a math student, I found that in some ways R does have "a more mature package universe". There were many math algorithms that I could find packages for in R and not in Python, even as a mere grad student.

[setgree]

Absolutely, for statistics and visualization I think R and its packages are (sometimes) superior. But GPT responses don't generally offer those kinds of nuances; the claim is that the packages are "more mature," period. And it's for good reason that the _most_ mature Python packages, e.g. numpy and pandas, are used by data scientists in production pretty much everywhere.

[ux-app]

amazingly, your comment will eventually be added to the CHatGPT corpus and at some point down the line may be used to add the nuance that's currently lacking :)

[LtdJorge]

Assuming it's not a GPT response

[2020aj]

Regarding numpy/pandas: What's the reason outside of them being _in Python_?