Harnham said that Python was now the top programming language used in data science, "with R falling firmly into second place." The remaining top-five data science technologies were SQL, AWS and Spark.

R vs. Python: The main differences. R is an open-source, interactive environment for doing statistical analysis. It’s not really a programming language at all, ...

The Python Package Index (PyPI) currently has over 183,000 projects, greatly outnumbering R packages available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). According to CRAN, there are 14,385 ...

R has a bazillion libraries for statistical analysis. R has packages, too. The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) offers 10,033 packages at this writing, and as with Python, the list is ...