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Another big thing that R has an edge over python (and I guess Julia, but not sure) is making quick yet presentable plots of data that contain different factors that you want to show together. The matplotlib equivalent requires tracking different indices and manually adding layers for different indices.

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Julia has plenty of plotting solutions that are better for stats than matplotlib:

https://github.com/JuliaPlots/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl https://github.com/queryverse/VegaLite.jl https://github.com/JuliaPlots/StatsPlots.jl

Gadfly is amazing too, and Makie is the future.

Here's a neat website that captures this: https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/

If you click into any of the plots and scroll down you can see how little code is needed for most of these plots.

For example: https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/135-stacked-density-graph.ht...

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