At Springboard, we pair mentors with learners in data science. We often get questions about whether to use Python or R – and we’ve come to a conclusion thanks to insight from our community of ...

Compare the Python programming language and R to see how they differ and which is better for data science.

Programming languages Python and R are often pitted against each other over which is best for data science and analysis. Both are popular, although Python appears to be much more widely used, at ...

The language R is in the midst of a sizzling resurgence this summer. One might hypothesize that this growth is coming at the expense of Python, by far the dominant language for data science. But some ...

As programming languages go, there’s no denying that Python is hot. Originally created as a general-purpose scripting language, Python somehow became the most popular language for data science. But is ...

Positron is Posit's new, free IDE for data science. Users can work with Python and R. It explicitly does not replace RStudio.

Reticulate is a handy way to combine Python and R code. From the reticulate help page suggests that reticulate allows for: "Calling Python from R in a variety of ways including R Markdown, sourcing ...

Programming languages: Julia touts its speed edge over Python and R Benchmarks suggest programming language Julia may be the best choice for big-data analysis using CSV format files.

R Markdown isn’t going away. But the Quarto publishing platform is as friendly to Python, Julia, and Observable JavaScript as it is to R.