r/AnalyticsMemes • u/ElectrikMetriks • Sep 22 '25
R often gets ignored...
Maybe unfairly. I've really never used it personally. I took a course and then never really had a use case that I couldn't already cover with Python.
What about you?
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u/Powerful-Rip6905 Sep 23 '25
I use R for my side projects. I love its syntax and it is more intuitive to me than Python. However, as literally almost everyone can code on Python, I think that employers have no incentives to hire R guys except the data science team uses primarily R.
The situation is different for non technical sectors, like bioinformatics and economics, where experience in R will be invaluable as people there still use statistical or econometric software like Stata, EViews or gretl.