R vs Julia - reflections of each whilst studying
August 20, 2025
R is designed to allow a person to quickly generate scripts, with professional standard charts and outputs in PDF and HTML formats. One can easily perform exploratory data anaylsis (EDA) with R and being a statistical language it supports statistics and machine learning very well. I used R for 4 years whilst studying, for my MSc project though I chose to use Julia. Whilst R has some very good strengths it also has some shortcomings, most notably: