Quang T. answered 07/30/19
GIS Professional with experience in Python and Data Engineering
R and Python both work pretty well with Excel. The better one will be dependent on your skill level of either scripting languages and what projects you are working on. Python is my preference as it can do many of the tasks R can do and it has a larger community backing. Having a larger community means that there are more third-party packages available to work with Excel and more people/resources to help you if you get stuck