Looking for a similar job where my desire/interest to spend all day in Rstudio is a value add to a business
For example, I used R (data.table) when I was a solo data scientist working on a consulting project where I needed to work with a dataset on the order of a few billion rows. I had nobody around to constrain my choice of tools, so I went with whatever felt convenient, familiar, and ergonomic for getting the job done.
Today, I am on a team of 5 other people, none of which know a lick of R, and my code needs to run in production pipelines that need to at least in theory be debuggable, auditable, fixable, etc. by people other than me. Therefore I use Python, because we are a Python team and that's the language that we use, end of story. (Python also happens to be a good choice on our team for other reasons, but that's not the point here).
Maybe the best industry where you are likely to find people doing "production" work in R is some form of insurance. But even back in 2017-2020, things were shifting towards Python at the one P&C company I worked for.
Insurance is also still using a lot of R. Actuaries I know still use it, and they talk of Python, but I don’t see anyone actually moving to using Python.
E.g. tidyverse or dplyr is like 20-40 jobs. ggplot is 88. There's definitely way more than 100+ companies looking for R-heavy users.
"R" is the only programming language I know and I can't find a job that uses a R because job search engines don't allow you to sort by skill
"R language" is the closest substitute on linkedin but the results are still a jumbled mess of jobs, some looking moreso for other skills (SQL/Python)
I know R-heavy jobs exist but finding them on LinkedIn is virtually impossible