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Re:Why I use R by ChrisRackauckas on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:48AM (#21968707)
>But it lacks R's ecosystem, so Julia is a tougher sell.

In the areas I work in (scientific computing and scientific machine learning), you can really only find the packages in Julia while R and Python's ecosystems are quite lacking. R has stats and Python has ML, but the rest of the scientific ecosystems there just aren't as complete.

Re:Why I use R by La1n on Monday January 06, 2020 @09:08AM (#21969186)
R definitely leads in molecular biology too. A lot of the bioconductor tools have no equivalent in both Julia or Python.
Re:Why I use R by cbkeller on Monday January 06, 2020 @12:50PM (#21971218)
I think these folks are working on it: https://biojulia.net/