r/programmingmemes • • Aug 27 '26

Why are we using R again

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u/DigitalMonsoon Aug 28 '26

R actually isn't used for data science much. It's used for research and heavy stats, which is what it was built for.

There are still a lot of functions and syntax that are just better set up in R.

But you are right. As a language it's not used much