You can save your workspace (state) in R. It's generally bad practice to do so. R is VERY VERY good at handling tabular data. Python can get kind of close with

You can save your workspace (state) in R. It's generally bad practice to do so. R is VERY VERY good at handling tabular data. Python can get kind of close with Pandas but IMO, it's still more awkward than base R data frames and way worse than data.table. R also has a lot of built-ins geared for statistics and built by statisticians. If you're do it statistics there's value in not having to find a library or libraries that do that.