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R vs Python

What is R? R is a programming language that is specifically for statistical computing and graphical computation. R project is an extension of the S language that was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers and his colleagues. It is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Statisticians make use of R programming language to analyze the data and carry out statistical analysis through graphs and other types of visualizations. R allows the users to perform analysis on large datasets. This language is continuously growing with thousands of packages that can be used readily for many applications. There are various statistical and graphical techniques that R provides such as linear and non-linear modeling, statistical testing, time-series analysis, classification, regression, clustering and many more. The main strength of R is its well-publicized quality plots that we can produce using its many functionalities ...