R is a horrible language. But is, indeed, the statistics gold standard. Mainly for the same reason as python, which is the only language worse than R. (Bcs PERL

R is a horrible language. But is, indeed, the statistics gold standard. Mainly for the same reason as python, which is the only language worse than R. (Bcs PERL graciously died.) Both are piss slow (until you hit their C libraries.) But you can directly call python from Julia, so you get the libraries for free. Dunno about calling the R libraries, but that would be great.