I spent a few weeks a few months ago learning R. It&#x27;s not a bad language, and yes, the plotting is currently second-to-none, at least based on my limited experience with matplotlib and seaborn.<p>There&#x27;s scant few articles on going from Python to R...and I think that has given me a lot of reason to hesitate. One of the big assets of R is Hadley Wickham...the amount and variety of work he has contributed is prodigious (not just ggplot2, but everything from data cleaning, web scraping, dev tools, time-handling a la moment.js, and books). But that&#x27;s not just evidence of how generous and talented Wickham is, but how relatively little dev support there is in R. If something breaks in ggplot2 -- or any of the many libraries he&#x27;s involved in, he&#x27;s often the one to respond to the ticket. He&#x27;s only one person. There are many talented developers in R but it&#x27;s not quite a deep open-source ecosystem and community yet.<p>Also word-of-warning: ggplot2 (as of 2014[1]) is in maintenance mode and Wickham is focused on ggvis, which will be a web visualization library. I don&#x27;t know if there has been much talk about non-Hadley-Wickham people taking over ggplot2 and expanding it...it seems more that people are content to follow him into ggvis, even though a static viz library is still very valuable.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;ggplot2&#x2F;SSxt8B8QLfo&#x2F;discussion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;ggplot2&#x2F;SSxt8B8QLfo&#x2F;...</a>