[aub3bhat]

Having spent last 4 months interviewing at several companies for ML roles, I can assure you that no one doing PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning, Vision, Data Mining) uses R.

I also dont understand what you mean by "exceedingly high value work". For both production as well as research (ICML/NIPS/CVPR) the languages used are in most cases Python/C++/Lua.

Also Stats PhD (who I believe are the sole users of R) aren't typically hired into Machine Learning roles.

R is okay for wrangling tabular data, applying statical model for hypothesis testing and generating pretty charts for papers. But not suitable for state of art Audio, NLP, Vision or Reinforcement Learning.

[minimaxir]

> Also Stats PhD (who I believe are the sole users of R) aren't typically hired into Machine Learning roles.

FWIW, I used R for my undergrad, and still use R for personal projects afterwards. (with modern R, dplyr/ggplot2 are an order of magnitude easier to use, in my opinion, than the Python equivalents)

[jfpuget]

Lua isn't missed, read the article again. it is just that it just that Lua appears in exactly 0% of the job offers on indeed.com.

[frozenport]

Similiar experience. The only people using R were technology illiterate, mining existing datasets, mostly in life sciences.

This is very different than trying to recognize street signs.