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4 Reasons you Should not learn R in 2021
Welcome back! The other day I wrote an article on 5 reasons why you should learn R in 2021, if you want to read that article check out the link below:
Now it’s time to get a bit controversial, let’s talk about 4reasons why you shouldn’t learn R in 2021. First off, I love R, I use it almost on a daily basis, but just like any other programming language it’s not perfect.
Losing Popularity
Starting off, R has slowly been losing a bit of it’s popularity throughout the last several years. Taking a look at the TIOBE Index (which some people do not like) we can see that R has been slowly going down for a little while now:
Is this one chart enough of a reason to believe that R is fading away? Absolutely not, but in my personal experience I have seen that many positions related to data science / data analytics have been requiring more experience with Python rather…
