[Lyngbakr]

R has been part of my stack professionally for around 16 years and in that time I'd estimate maybe 15% of my code had anything to do with statistics. I've used it for numerical modelling, data viz, ETL pipelines, deploying APIs, building dashboards, amongst many other topics. To reduce R to statistics is doing it a disservice.

[williamstein]

“The R Project for Statistical Computing”

[Lyngbakr]

Regardless of the official title, it long ago spread far beyond statistics.