I'm a data engineer who works in an R-centric engineering team, which is quite unusual. Our experience has been that R works well for our use cases and lets us

I'm a data engineer who works in an R-centric engineering team, which is quite unusual. Our experience has been that R works well for our use cases and lets us work closely with our analysts and data scientists who are all R users. There are no silos due to different teams speaking different languages. That said, am I still writing Python whenever possible? Damn straight. I'm well aware of how peculiar our team is and, like the post says about modelling, Python (+ SQL) is the default language of the data engineering world. If I want another job, I need Python.