Student of mine (CS) recently said she loves R because "you can tell the community is mostly non-CS. Everything is documented and explained so well".
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@odr_k4tana
That of course makes sense if one understands the history of R and its ancestor S... created at Bell Labs long ago, led by John Chambers, in part motivated to help researchers who (usually) were not also CMPSC folks do statistics.
I.e., in that era, they were mostly doing stats in Fortran.
Here's oral history John did for us in 2022:
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102792763/
That's discussed in transcript, starting ~page 7:
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102792762/,