I think ... - tabularhttps://blog.kmonsoor.com/2016-02-08T08:02:00+06:00R vs Python — A Summary Comparison2016-02-08T08:02:00+06:002016-02-08T08:02:00+06:00Khaled Monsoortag:blog.kmonsoor.com,2016-02-08:/R-vs-Python/<p>A tabular, objective, comparative summary view between R and Python programming languages. Facts matters.</p><table>
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<th>..</th>
<th>R</th>
<th>Python</th>
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<td>Home</td>
<td><a href="http://r-project.org">http://r-project.org</a></td>
<td><a href="http://python.org">http://python.org</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://githut.info/">Birth</a></td>
<td>1993</td>
<td>1991</td>
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<td>Designer</td>
<td>Ross Ihaka, Robert Gentleman</td>
<td>Guido van Rossum</td>
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<td>Package count</td>
<td>7,798 (<span class="caps">CRAN</span>)</td>
<td>73,402 (PyPI)</td>
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<td>Purpose</td>
<td>statistical computing</td>
<td>General purpose</td>
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<td>Paradigm</td>
<td>array, object-oriented, imperative, functional, procedural, reflective</td>
<td>object-oriented, imperative, functional, procedural, reflective</td>
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<td>License</td>
<td><span class="caps">GPL</span></td>
<td><span class="caps">MIT</span></td>
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<td>Platform</td>
<td>cross-platform</td>
<td>cross-platform</td>
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<td>Implementations</td>
<td>Main, <a href="https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin">Rejnin</a>, <a href="https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr">FastR</a></td>
<td><a href="https://github.com/python/cpython">cPython</a>, <a href="https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy">PyPy</a>, <a href="http://www.jython.org">Jython</a>, <a href="https://github.com/IronLanguages/main/wiki">IronPython</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html"><span class="caps">TIOBE</span><sup><span class="caps">TM</span></sup> index</a></td>
<td>19</td>
<td>5</td>
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<td>Dev. <span class="caps">IDE</span></td>
<td>R Studio, Tinn-R, Architect</td>
<td>PyCharm, IPython/Jupyter, Spyder, Komodo <span class="caps">IDE</span></td>
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<td>Graphics support</td>
<td>built-in, ggplot2, lattice, Vistat, googleVis</td>
<td>matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Bokeh</td>
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<td>Machine-learning</td>
<td>e1071, rpart, igraph, nnet, kernlab, caret</td>
<td>scikit-learn, PyML, PyMC, Shogun</td>
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<td>Deep-Learning</td>
<td>H<sub>2</sub>O, Darch</td>
<td>TensorFlow, Theano, Decaf, <span class="caps">PDNN</span>, Keras, Caffe</td>
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<td>Image-Analysis</td>
<td>Raster, EBImage, imager</td>
<td>scikit-image, OpenCV, scipy.ndimage</td>
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<td><a href="http://githut.info/">Github project count</a></td>
<td>34,268</td>
<td>164,852</td>
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<td>Latest release</td>
<td>2015-12-10 (Main: R-3.2.3)</td>
<td>2015-12-21 (cPython: Python 3.4.4)</td>
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<p><strong><span class="caps">N.B.</span></strong>
* Time-dependent data are up-to-date as of: <strong>2016-02-08</strong> * </p>
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