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Re:How to find R-lang heavy jobs? by shortrounddev2 on Thursday September 19, 2024 @04:22PM (#41596030)
The R programmers I've met (3 of them) have all worked in government or science (two for the EPA, one for the DoE). All other data scientist or statistics heavy jobs I see people using python because the tooling tends to speed things up
Re:How to find R-lang heavy jobs? by johnnybzane on Thursday September 19, 2024 @04:30PM (#41596093)
data.table/R is definitely faster than Pandas/Python

https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/

Re:How to find R-lang heavy jobs? by shortrounddev2 on Friday September 20, 2024 @08:58AM (#41601559)
I didn't mean runtime efficiency, I meant speed of iteration. People time costs more than computer time