[vegabook]

R just does not have robust software engineering tools for anything that even begins to resemble scale and anybody who says otherwise is denying reality. R can certainly be used in production but the skeleton framework cannot be R. RPC only in my experience with all the structure with something else. R is intrinsically single user / batch with maybe shared database but say goodbye to anything that even starts to approach real time, or multi-node dependent. In my experience the only people who insist that R is robust for production, inevitably have a vested interest. Any objective programmer can see its greatness but also its glaring flaws.

[blahi]

Riiight. Everybody else is a bad engineer and you are the good one. With the single threaded R code...

edit: The comment above has been extended quite a bit. Initially it was a single (abrasive) sentence. I still stand by my answer however. Somebody who did not turn on multi-threading does not get to criticize R. It is the first thing you learn in any book about R. You have to be almost actively avoiding learning about it. It's in every 3rd blog post and SO question.

[vegabook]

perhaps you might not have started your own comment with the erroneous view that 'bad coders' are to blame when R proves to be deficient at extra-design tasks.

Oh I further note your R consulting vocation. There you go. Vested interest.

BTW, I love R. But my love is not blind.