32 engineers on Hacker News describe using R first-hand: 8 endorse it, 5 regret it, 4 are mixed.
“At my company we switched from using Python to using R for most analytical data science work”
endorse · production · mshron · 2021-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I got my graduate degree in Statistics and, after working for several years in such a role, made a similar vow to Never Again™ touch R (or SAS).”
regret · production · taoffhand · 2021-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use R both in development and production environments. We use it for pricing, spatial contractual obligation, claims assignment”
endorse · production · 3 yr · meztez · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You should try using R; the real world performance is actually better than Julia in every way that matters.”
endorse · production · scottlocklin · 2020-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have also found R in production to be a nightmare.”
regret · production · truculent · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For our workload and type of work, R has been a godsend.”
endorse · production · meztez · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using R on and off for a decade... R is unlike any other programming language that I have used before”
regret · personal · 10 yr · glofish · 2019-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love using R for modeling and statistic.”
endorse · personal · anthony_doan · 2019-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“occasional silent crashes where it would simply stop and exit with a successful status of 0”
regret · production · olooney · 2018-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Please don't use R in production. Please don't use R for any serious work... Performance was terrible.”
regret · production · neya · 2017-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We actually have a fairly hard policy against R in production or in client deliverable code.”
mixed · production · cannonpr · 2016-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It has one huge flaw, being slow but otherwise is fantastic to work with and has a vibrant community.”
mixed · production · B1gred · 2015-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm liking how it illustrates my data from the csv file.”
endorse · production · MojoJolo · 2013-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using R daily for nearly 8 years now... I've never had any problems at all.”
endorse · production · 8 yr · withme · 2013-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Otherwise for data munging, wrangling, connecting to databases, doing unit testing, etc - R is a giant PITA.”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · id_ris · 2012-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“vim works just fine, as do R, matlab, python, scipy, bash, awk, sed, etc”
endorse · production · earl · 2012-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have found myself turning to R for certain specific things, though. Mixed-effects models, repeated-measure ANOVA, Fisher's Exact Test”
mixed · personal · stevenbedrick · 2010-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with a smattering of Python and R in between.”
neutral · production · YeGoblynQueenne · 2024-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Wrote and debugged a lot of R and Python, fair bit of Spark too.”
neutral · production · FridgeSeal · 2022-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had multiple versions of R working with multiple versions of Shiny running in production.”
neutral · production · Bootvis · 2022-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the majority of my current employer's codebase is actually in R”
neutral · production · dotandimet · 2022-06-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we have a few rest API in production for live prediction.”
neutral · production · meztez · 2019-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My job is pretty much only writing R code and managing R models running in production.”
neutral · production · psv1 · 2019-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The implementation I used in R had a number of parameters to tune, but my interpretation of the visualization changed with those parameters”
neutral · personal · SubiculumCode · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Where I work atm (it's a big corporation) we use about 50% R, 50% Python”
neutral · production · alexgmcm · 2018-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using R off and on for a while now but Advanced R was a real revelation.”
neutral · personal · ropeladder · 2017-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“(I used to do R but Python largely caught up, thankfully.)”
neutral · personal · lmeyerov · 2015-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if I never again have to use base reshape, stack or gsub then it would be a good thing.”
neutral · personal · disgruntledphd2 · 2015-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“has been using R since ~2001 and who is a normal software developer in their day to day job”
neutral · personal · 13 yr · jghn · 2014-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to program solely in R, but after discovering pandas I really have no need to go back to R.”
neutral · personal · elliott34 · 2014-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You can rig up code on your Mac in R, Python, etc. and then hand it over to the cluster fairly effortlessly, at least in my experience”
neutral · production · Fomite · 2013-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In R, sum(replicate(1000,sum(rexp(3000,1/50)))) / 1000 returns ~150000”
neutral · personal · andrewla · 2011-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?