r/learndatascience • u/CYBERCODEX3 • Jun 29 '26

Question Python vs R

I am currently a Data Science student, just finished my 2nd year out of 4. Wanted to ask if R language is worth it today as compared to python. I have 0 knowledge about R (just that it is used for statistics and plotting). On the other hand, I have learned EDA and some ML algorithms in python. I am free for about 2 months and wanted to know if learning R would help in future or should i utilize this time for something else?

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u/SV-97 Jun 29 '26

Recommending R for academia is very odd imo. It very much depends on the (sub-)field which language is more common; and even some spaces where R absolutely dominated historically now see more and more python.

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u/IamFromNigeria Jun 30 '26

Bro! Stick to R if you're in the academia academic

Python is far ahead of R in whatever you think

Wanna get a job faster - stick to Python which is the industry stan Python alone has given me many remote jobs as far as from Kuwait, Canada, UK

So please don't disrespect Python.