Nope. R's advantage is that the language is extremely expressive and makes many things about it's implementation extremely transparent to it's users. The huge package count for a niche language is a direct result of that.
200% agreed. I switched from python to R for data science machine learning and data visualization and found that python is far behind .
I am able to generate and test and make machine learning models easily and in standardised manner using its tidymodels libraries while I am unable to generate models in python scikit-learn etc libraries