Is python necessary to learn machine learning?

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Shiny

I don't know where that idea comes from, but R (like Julia) is a "full-fledged" programming languages by any stretch of the definition. Even if we leave aside the things R is great (arguably, the best) at (i.e. Data wrangling, plotting, statistical modeling, and scientific/technical publishing), you can do anything you want with R. Be it building dashboards or back-ends, MLOps, or even creating games. Granted, using R (or Python) to create a game is a stupid idea.

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MC Stan

Even if RStudio & the Tidyverse have mostly been promoting a functional programming style in R, it has full support for OOP (see R6 or R7 for more modern implementations of it). Let's not even mention the excellent Stan ecosystem for Probabilistic programming / Bayesian modeling, or Bioconductor, the biggest repository of bioinformatics packages & tools of any language.

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