I'd second the R recommendation. It's a particularly exciting time to use R, with the proliferation of package collections like tidyverse (https://www.tidyverse

I'd second the R recommendation. It's a particularly exciting time to use R, with the proliferation of package collections like tidyverse (https://www.tidyverse.org/ https://www.tidyverse.org/) and the development and release of free texts like R for Data Science (https://r4ds.had.co.nz/ https://r4ds.had.co.nz/).