> "What advantages does Python have over R for basic statistics work?"
The advantage of Python is that it's a nice, well designed general purpose programming language. But in basic statistics work you don't need to develop large, well organized programs, so in practice I'd say there is no advantage.
R provides a larger collection of all kind of statistical routines out of the box.
The advantage of Python is that it's a nice, well designed general purpose programming language. But in basic statistics work you don't need to develop large, well organized programs, so in practice I'd say there is no advantage.
R provides a larger collection of all kind of statistical routines out of the box.