A.4. The takeaway

In our opinion, the R ecosystem is the fastest path to substantial data science, statistical, and machine learning accomplishment. Other systems may have more advanced machine learning capabilities (such as Python’s deep learning connections), but these are now also available to R users through an adapter called reticulate.^[11] No data scientist should expect to work forever in just one language, or with just one system; but we feel R is a good place for many to start.

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For an example, please see François Chollet and J. J. Allaire, Deep Learning with R (Manning, 2018).