> because apparently everything data mining/ML related in R is actually just python I think it is apparent only to you. The most popular package for ML in R is

> because apparently everything data mining/ML related in R is actually just python I think it is apparent only to you. The most popular package for ML in R is `caret` and it has nothing to do with Python. Similarly, `mlr` also has no Python. In fact, except for tensorflow and keras, I can't think of any major ML package that needs Python. Even torch package which brings pytorch to R doesn't need Python (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/torch/index.html https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/torch/index.html). What confuses me even more is that you were learning statistics but using R packages that use Python as backend. In my experience, almost all the new statistics and econometrics methods are first released as R packages by the researchers. Can you name any data mining R packages that you used that required Python? I am really curious to know.