For me, both are horrible. I use Stata a lot and thought a lot about switching to R (there is even a nice tutorial by Matthieu Gomez at http://www.princeton.edu

For me, both are horrible. I use Stata a lot and thought a lot about switching to R (there is even a nice tutorial by Matthieu Gomez at http://www.princeton.edu/~mattg/statar/ http://www.princeton.edu/~mattg/statar/ ). However, I believe that moving to R is not the answer, as you will still be riddled with a lot of the problems that you faced in Stata such as a quirky syntax (except backticks. I hate those backticks). Maybe Python will catch up (I doubt it, what we need is a DSL, not something too general that requires loong commands to do a simple regress). My best bet would be Julia, but it's still a long way to go regarding things like missing values.