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title: "R vs Python"  
description: "R vs Python"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2018-06-25  
updated: 2018-06-26  
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# R vs Python

[Difference](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/157114/good-news-or-bad-news-and-the-difference-is) and use in [R vs Python](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/327047/the-war-between-r-and-python-programming) in Data science ?

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## Replies

### Reply by Prakash nidhi Verma

R vs [Python](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/75378/simple-yet-useful-tips-when-using-python) in Datascience :

identify, represent and extract meaningful information from given data sources is deals in Data science. Its uses machine learning, statistics, probability, linear and logistic regression for finding some meaningful data.

![R vs Python](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickforums/a90bcb1b-316d-440c-adde-fb1adf828020/images/21f721fe-fddb-42e4-ac48-ee4c24666272.jpg)\

Python with the help of libraries like SciPy and packages while R having packages.R and Python are equally good for finding outliers in a data set but for developing a web service and database enabling , Python is better. People have built modules to create websites, interact with a variety of databases, and manage users in Python.

Difference between R and Python :

R :

- R is a free software environment for statistical and useful programming language.It is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis.

- R has inbuilt functionalities for data analysis.

PYTHON :

- Python is an Interpreted high-level programming language for general purpose programming. It was created by Guido Van Rossum and was first released in 1991. Python has a very clean and simple code syntax.

-Python is a general purpose programming language. NumPy, panda is there some non in-built function.\


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