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"R is very popular with stats people but new PhD candidates are beginning to write python implementations of R things (sort of how like DataFrames/pandas happened)."

People have been saying this since I was an undergraduate.

I'm submitting my tenure packet this year.



> People have been saying this since I was an undergraduate.

> I'm submitting my tenure packet this year.

That doesn't mean it isn't happening. If anything, the fact that the rate of adoption is slow over a long period of time would tell me that there's more stating power here. If suddenly 20% used python that would be a warning sign. If there was .5% year over year for decades.... That's different.


I'm just saying I have spent my entire career in "The year Python unseats R."

and also "The year R unseats Python."


> R dropped from 8th place in January 2018 to become the 20th most popular language... At its peak in January 2018, R had a popularity rating of about 2.6%. But today it’s down to 0.8%, according to the TIOBE index.

https://www.datanami.com/2019/08/15/is-python-strangling-r-t...


I'd suggest the TIOBE index really isn't the proper metric to be using.


A similar trend is on Github

https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2014/1

R has halved in percentage since 2018




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