Python has really extensive libraries. Here is the Nearest Neighbor one I've used in the past: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.neigh

Python has really extensive libraries. Here is the Nearest Neighbor one I've used in the past: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.neighbors.NearestNeighbors.html https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.ne.... ... Prior articles I've read point to R's startup time and memory footprint as disadvantages relative to Python. I don't have any experience with R so I'm not in a position to comment on it personally.