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I use both for my data analysis (though I'm not doing anything too fancy these days). R is great at statistics (that's what it was designed for) but a bit of a

by bjoerns 13y ago

I use both for my data analysis (though I'm not doing anything too fancy these days). R is great at statistics (that's what it was designed for) but a bit of a terrible programming language. So I combine the two, do all the IO stuff etc in Python and run the actual statistical analysis in R (RPy is a great Python interface to R).

bjoerns 13y ago
...although even at the risk of getting laughed at, Excel is an awesome tool for a lot of quick and dirty data analysis stuff (depending on what you do). Throw in a little Python/R (e.g. via datanitro) and it's even more powerful.