<story><title>A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science</title><url>https://github.com/rnorm/book_sample</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billfruit</author><text>I sometimes wonder is there any reason to learn R at all, since python eco system has absorbed most of its advanced statistical functionality, coupled with the factor that python environment is much more general, with capabilities to fetch, decode&amp;#x2F;encoded data,work with binary data databases, web frameworks for presenting etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>I use both Python and R. tidyverse&amp;#x2F;ggplot2 alone are enough reason to use R, and are &lt;i&gt;substantially&lt;/i&gt; faster for tasks that utilize those packages than the equivalent in Python (in my opinion).&lt;p&gt;Although I haven&amp;#x27;t had as much reason to use &lt;i&gt;base&lt;/i&gt; R. For more ML-related tasks I do go back to Python.</text></comment>
<story><title>A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science</title><url>https://github.com/rnorm/book_sample</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billfruit</author><text>I sometimes wonder is there any reason to learn R at all, since python eco system has absorbed most of its advanced statistical functionality, coupled with the factor that python environment is much more general, with capabilities to fetch, decode&amp;#x2F;encoded data,work with binary data databases, web frameworks for presenting etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anthony_doan</author><text>&amp;gt; since python eco system has absorbed most of its advanced statistical functionality&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t true at all...&lt;p&gt;Also all advance statistical books are either SAS or R. If it&amp;#x27;s R then there is always a package that the author created.&lt;p&gt;Just look at Chapman &amp;amp; Hall&amp;#x2F;CRC or Springer publisher and look at their books.&lt;p&gt;Go here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jstatsoft.org&amp;#x2F;index&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jstatsoft.org&amp;#x2F;index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Count the number of R packages in those papers versus Python.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t even need a source. I&amp;#x27;m a statistician and I&amp;#x27;m going to get a paper there and publish a R package for my master thesis.</text></comment>