"R User or R Developer? This is the question!"

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R is among the most popular programming, scripting, and markup languages. A key factor in its popularity is without any doubt its approachability, also for people without a software engineering background. What does it mean to be an R user? Is there such a thing as an R developer, and (how) does it differ from being an R user? We will discuss this at a Panel Discussion at useR!2021 on Tuesday July 6th at 4 pm UTC ( Abstract available at https://www.conftool.org/user2021/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=38&form_topic=0&form_tracks=8&presentations=show ) and with this form we would like to collect the perspective of the R Community, to be presented at the panel. We would be grateful if you could collaborate by answering these few questions below.

To know more check out our blog post https://mirai-solutions.ch/news/2021/06/18/announce-user2021-panel/

Define R Developer:

anyone who writes R code

someone who applies basic software development concepts to code design

someone who structures code as a package

someone who develops tools for others to use (also domain specific)

someone who extends the R language

someone who doesn't use R as a black box but cares about what happens under the hood

Other:

Clear selection

How do you consider yourself?

R User

R Developer

Clear selection

Is R a programming language for production?

Yes

Other:

Clear selection

Is there a role such as an “R developer” in your company/place of work?

Yes

Clear selection

If yes, what skills are required by your company for the "R developer" role?

None

Sufficient

Medium

Strong

devOps

GitHub

Computer Science or similar background

C++

Shiny

Cloud services

Visualization

Tidyverse

Statistical or similar background

Domain know-how

plumber / API

Clear selection

Is there a role such as an “R user” in your company/place of work?

Yes

Clear selection

If yes, what skills are required by your company for the "R user" role?

None

Sufficient

Medium

Strong

devOps

GitHub

Computer Science or similar background

C++

Shiny

Cloud services

Visualization

Tidyverse

Statistical or similar background

Domain know-how

plumber / API

Clear selection

What makes R an approachable language?

the functionalities available in Base R

a main source for packages ( CRAN / Bioconductor )

interactivity

RStudio

tidyverse

the community

Other:

Clear selection

Where did you find the link to this poll?

RBloggers

R Weekly

Other:

Clear selection

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