Yes, and this is why R has become so dominant in the data and statistics spaces. R is free, and has gained so much momentum that it often has packages that no other language has. Yesterday I found out that there was just no way to easily reproduce mgcv::gam in python. There are loads of similar examples.

As someone who likes both R and Python, and had the misfortune to learn Stata; I am very glad to see R winning over these expensive dinosaurs. Maybe one day it will even displace matlab!