> R is too specific and it lacks the vast ecosystem of Python That's the first time I've ever heard this criticism of R: most staunch R critics will acknowledg

> R is too specific and it lacks the vast ecosystem of Python That's the first time I've ever heard this criticism of R: most staunch R critics will acknowledge R's vast breadth and depth of statistical libraries outclasses Python. Python has far more general use programming libraries (so deploying models is easier) and used to have a slight advantage in ML specific libraries, but there aren't major differences nowadays between the two ecosystems.