the biggest concern I have heard from friends who work in stats and mathematics academia is that it is much, MUCH easier to publish a package in CRAN than to PyPi.<p>I think most users of Python are that... &quot;users&quot;. But R is used by creators of algorithms who find it very easy to create and distribute code.<p>In fact a lot of them talk about how difficult it is to install packages in python, while any R script has &quot;install.packages&quot; right in it.<p>I&#x27;m willing to bet if Pandas&#x2F;Numpy&#x2F;Jupyter built a CRAN-PY and made the packaging system similar to R, the adoption would be much different.