I've been using R for 20 years, and I think the history does matter. R is an open source clone of S, which had some traction with rigorous statisticians via Bell Labs. So it had stats at its core. R was just a version…
I've been using R for 20 years, and I think the history does matter. R is an open source clone of S, which had some traction with rigorous statisticians via Bell Labs. So it had stats at its core. R was just a version…