I am primarily a python programmer, but I sometimes use R. You are either going to use a programming language (or library, etc.) made by a programmer pretendin

I am primarily a python programmer, but I sometimes use R. You are either going to use a programming language (or library, etc.) made by a programmer pretending they know about statistics, or a statistician pretending they know about programming. Oftentimes, as a programmer, the right choice is the former, but not uncommonly (because statistics is even less intuitive than programming), you really really need to know that the statistics have been done right. If someone has ported the relevant code from R to python, great. If not, bit the bullet and use R, it's where the statisticians hang out. You know, I bet statisticians don't think any more kindly of how programmers make stuff. Our use of the '=' sign, for example. We're just used to that kind of thing, so it doesn't look like a problem to us.