There are GUI statistics apps for people who just want the common case, Dropbox-style: packages like Weka for data mining / predictive statistics, SPSS for descriptive statistics, and a dozen other such things.
The statisticians who choose to use a programming language like R or Python typically do it because they actually do want a programming language. I mean, that's why Bell Labs statisticians invented S (R's predecessor) to begin with.
The statisticians who choose to use a programming language like R or Python typically do it because they actually do want a programming language. I mean, that's why Bell Labs statisticians invented S (R's predecessor) to begin with.