The R programming language has long been used for statistical analysis, though it tends not to be used directly within business intelligence (BI) applications, Bajuk-Yorgan said.

All of R’s programming libraries are free, but Revolution Analytics makes its business from its service packages, which give customers access to the libraries the company develops in-house.

Regardless of the reasons, R is still on track to become TIOBE’s programming language of 2020, an accolade bestowed to the language that earns the highest rise in ratings over the course of a year.

If you’re considering moving to a role in statistical programming, now is the time to invest in your skills, expand your knowledge beyond SAS and embrace the power of R, Python, AI and ML.

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Suresh has benchmarked statistical programming language R's fread, Pandas' read_csv for Python, and Julia's CSV.jl CSV parsers and reckons that Julia comes out on top. "Julia's CSV.jl is 1.5 to 5 ...