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There can be a difference between IDE choice among professionals and the role of an IDE in introducing people to the ecosystem. On ramps don't start at the targ

• usernam 10y ago
  For what I see, the first and foremost initiating factor for a statistical package is education, and second it's available methods/packages. You have universities where you can clearly see that the predominant taught package is Stata, or R (and in the latter, the choice of UI is mostly arbitrary). In the end though, unless you want to reimplement methods, you can count on having R packages for any method you can think of. Few statisticians though spend the time to evaluate different IDEs than what they where taught. I've "converted" many still using Rwin.