birken has made this point already but as a more general one. If you are already using Python in any way then use that instead of R, you will be much happier.

birken has made this point already but as a more general one. If you are already using Python in any way then use that instead of R, you will be much happier. If you are not already using python then it still might be the right tool over using R. R has great functionality but my god are there ever warts in the R language and ecosystem. Also: I'll add my support to the opinion that you need to be very careful that you understand the statistics you are doing or you will be asking your tools to lie to you and not know it. A whole lot of the statistics you are going to want to do will be more advanced than stats 101.