Even further than that, you need faculty to teach with it. I know I use R a lot primarily because that's what I learnt at Cal, it was easy, and it worked. Thing

Even further than that, you need faculty to teach with it. I know I use R a lot primarily because that's what I learnt at Cal, it was easy, and it worked. Things are probably shifting towards Python in schools now, but I think that's the best way you're going to get a lot of users using it persistently in their careers.