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I use python for more data engineering, large scale processing, and PyTorch.

In my experience, the specific things R does well, python does it in a clunkier way.

Statistical software written by statisticians in academia, bioconductor, and quick prototyping is still much faster in R than in python.

My use case is to prototype in R, then move to python if things become more production rather than exploratory.



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