R and Rstudio have been my primary bread and butter maker. You might argue that Rstudio has financial interest in growing R community but it's fair and it has h

R and Rstudio have been my primary bread and butter maker. You might argue that Rstudio has financial interest in growing R community but it's fair and it has helped overall R as a language entirely (not just as statistical one). Hadley Wickham's tidyverse is an amazing example of how one can simply get stuff done. Along with %>% pipe it is almost like idiomatic python. The ecosystem is amazing, I can write a web scraper in a couple of lines of code as simple as beautifulsoup. I think that's the strength of R. The intuitive UI and easy setup of RStudio just help someone get started with no hassle. That's a key I believe. I have also trained non-programmers and they managed to do data analysis in R using tidyverse in a matter of a month or two max.