I feel like the R ecosystem was there first; but perhaps two completely separate groups of people. Ecologists, researchers working with geological or geospatia

I feel like the R ecosystem was there first; but perhaps two completely separate groups of people. Ecologists, researchers working with geological or geospatial data use R and have been using R for a long, long time. The 'old 'standard library 'maps' is decades old by now, with maps v3 now being 8 years old. maps v2 goes back to 2003, about the time of Python 2.3? I can't even find the sources of maps v1. https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/maps/ https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/maps/ I believe that maps v1 was for R's predecessor, S, so from the late 90s, about the time Python 1.5 came out. Was anybody even using Python then? OP's post uses the slightly fancier tidyverse-versions of these decades-old libraries. I think it's safe to say that map-making libraries are older in R than in Python.