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I would say about 90% of the posts / articles / comments I see on the internet which discuss R are usually of the "meta" format. They talk about R's strengths o

I would say about 90% of the posts / articles / comments I see on the internet which discuss R are usually of the "meta" format. They talk about R's strengths or weaknesses, about the difference between R and Python, about how much they love or hate R, or any other high level subject. I can't remember the last time I saw a project someone did in R, or a tutorial on how to do something in R, get very much traction anywhere. It seems the only time people talk about R on the internet is to discuss the language itself (which is definitely frustrating), and it's getting old. Even this awesome, comprehensive document, which I would usually be foaming at the mouth to read, has me going "meh". I'm tired of the subject.

disgruntledphd2 5y ago
This is definitely true on HN, at least. I think the vast majority of R-users are just plugging away on their domain specific problems daily, and tend not to participate in these conversations. Dark-matter statisticians, I guess?
hadley 5y ago
They don't often come with code, but one of my recent sources of R programming joy is the folks posting their generative art to twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23rstats%20%23generativeart&src=typed_query&f=top https://twitter.com/search?q=%23rstats%20%23generativeart&sr...
mellavora 5y ago
> I can't remember the last time I saw a project someone did in R, or a tutorial on how to do something in R, get very much traction anywhere. well, you know, I'm not very active in C++ any more, and I haven't seen an article in over a decade on C++ which received any traction at all. So I guess C++ isn't getting any traction any more either.