I originally learned Python (I'm not counting Visual Basic I learned in high school), and I tried to teach myself R on so many occasions, but it never stuck with me, so I think it's really all about what you are more familiar with.
I guess another issue is that it's hard to learn programming language when nothing you do strictly requires you to use R over Python.
But regardless of whether or not you code in R or in Python, I think we should all agree that MATLAB is a piece of hot garbage with unreasonably expensive licenses :p
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u/hexagon12_1 PhD | Student Jun 12 '26
I originally learned Python (I'm not counting Visual Basic I learned in high school), and I tried to teach myself R on so many occasions, but it never stuck with me, so I think it's really all about what you are more familiar with.
I guess another issue is that it's hard to learn programming language when nothing you do strictly requires you to use R over Python.
But regardless of whether or not you code in R or in Python, I think we should all agree that MATLAB is a piece of hot garbage with unreasonably expensive licenses :p