Ten simple rules for teaching yourself R
Fig 2
Popularity of Twitter discussion for some common scientific programming languages.
While not as popular as #Python, #RStats appeared in around 1,000 tweets per day on average at the end of 2020. Solid lines show 7-day rolling averages; transparent dashed lines show daily tweet counts. Tweets were collected from September 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020, using the R package, academictwitteR [24]. We found a total of 124,852 Tweets with the #rstats hashtag, 303,388 with the #python hashtag, and 2,522 with the #julialang hashtag, within this 4-month period.