> I can only guess that jey's comment was downvoted because R is more prevalent language for statistics and data mining when compared to Python I'd imagine he

> I can only guess that jey's comment was downvoted because R is more prevalent language for statistics and data mining when compared to Python I'd imagine he was downvoted for coming into a "Here's how to do this thing in language X" thread and spouting about why everyone is using their own favourite toy instead of his own favourite toy.