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>For the same reason, I don’t see Python or Julia building up a huge code repository comparable to CRAN. CRAN has 5,566 packages. PyPI has 44,024. I recognize
by bendmorris 12y ago
>For the same reason, I don’t see Python or Julia building up a huge code repository comparable to CRAN.
CRAN has 5,566 packages. PyPI has 44,024.
I recognize that the author is trying to make a point about statistics packages specifically, but the R community is simply dwarfed by Python, so I don't think it's so farfetched that Python could overtake R even in its own little niche. It's also much easier to add your package to PyPI than CRAN, which is curated by a small and sometimes opinionated team.