We found in a previous post that Python has a solid claim to being the fastest-growing programming language in terms of Stack Overflow visits.
The same analysis showed that that the R programming language has shown remarkable growth in the last five years as well. In fact, R is growing at a similar rate to Python in terms of a year-over-year percentage, though this growth is “easier” because it started from a smaller share of traffic.
In another post, we found that much of the growth of Python can be explained by the expansion of data science. Since R is primarily used for statistica …