What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of R?

+ Open-source Runs on all major platforms Large and active R user community = ample online resources Developed by statisticians specifically for data analysis One of the top programming languages for data science - Its performance depends on your machine's memory resources (in particular, your RAM) Because of that, it may be slower than Python for data-intensive operations Some of us experienced difficulties loading certain packages - package compatibility issues and conflicts between different packages (e.g. tidyverse and ggplot2) are a drawback