&gt; what&#x27;s wrong with comparing R to Pandas&#x2F;Numpy<p>Absolutely nothing.<p>I was referring to the article title that is was an R vs. Python comparison. Python is so much more in terms of a general purpose language than R is. Similarly, R is much more in terms of stats (built-in) than Python. I just thought that it would be more accurate to call the article an R vs. Pandas&#x2F;NumPy comparison.<p>Even though both of them need an extra plotting library to make publication quality plots. Matplotlib isn&#x27;t bad by any means - and it&#x27;s gotten better over the years. But R&#x2F;ggplot2 produces nicer plots (IMO). I&#x27;m not sure that I&#x27;d export data from Python into R just for ggplot, but I might.