Which is the best language to learn for statistics

>>57574013
academic circlejerking or real world?

R

Nobody uses SAS in statistics research, it's either R or a compiled language. It's also ugly and gross.

Python is an also-ran if you just absolutely refuse to learn R, but fuck that. R was literally built for doing statistics. You'd be stupid to use Python instead.

>>57574013
Use R

>>57574076
While Python is handy for general scripting, I agree that for statistics, R is a lot better. If I am forced to use Python for stuff, I tend to rely on rpy and rpy2 for R bindings.

>>57574054
>Python is an also-ran if you just absolutely refuse to learn R, but fuck that. R was literally built for doing statistics. You'd be stupid to use Python instead.

Real World jobs

>>57574076

Thanks for the advice I'm actually learning R right now.

>>57574076
>in statistics research

aka cherrypicking