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Is it easier to learn R or Python?

June 7, 2019 By editor

Andy Kirk at Visualising Data ran a Twitter poll about the relative accessibility of R and Python to non-developers.

59% said that R was more accessible.

Obviously, the poll is far from scientific, but the comments he received reflect my own experiences of teaching both languages—such as the significance of the RStudio IDE and the tidyverse packages in getting people off the ground.

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