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How do I find jobs that use the R language? It's impossible to search the letter "R" on linkedIn or Indeed without getting a bunch of unrelated job postings "R

How do I find jobs that use the R language? It's impossible to search the letter "R" on linkedIn or Indeed without getting a bunch of unrelated job postings "R" is the only programming language I know and I can't find a job that uses a R because job search engines don't allow you to sort by skill "R language" is the closest substitute on linkedin but the results are still a jumbled mess of jobs, some looking moreso for other skills (SQL/Python) I know R-heavy jobs exist but finding them on LinkedIn is virtually impossible

clircle 2y ago
Why would you do that? R is a just a tool for doing statistics or research. You need to search for jobs in your subject area like "ecologist", "econometrician", "green energy reseacher", etc.
- johnnybzane 2y ago
  There are hedge funds that like hiring people who know how to manipulate data in R using dplyr and data.table Looking for a similar job where my desire/interest to spend all day in Rstudio is a value add to a business
  - nickforr 2y ago
    With apologies if this breaks guidelines: https://hymans.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/3525353?cid=2054&t=R-Modeller-Developer https://hymans.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/3525353?cid...
- nerdponx 2y ago
  Because if you work on a team you need to use a language that the whole team can work with. If I'm the one R guy at a Python shop, it's not going to work out well. It depends a lot on org structure of course. But I think it's telling that the jobs you highlight are mostly academic jobs where the practitioner would be expected to be a highly competent individual working largely alone, or in a very small group, carrying out research on behalf of some stakeholders, and not likely to have to put anything "into production" any time soon. For example, I used R (data.table) when I was a solo data scientist working on a consulting project where I needed to work with a dataset on the order of a few billion rows. I had nobody around to constrain my choice of tools, so I went with whatever felt convenient, familiar, and ergonomic for getting the job done. Today, I am on a team of 5 other people, none of which know a lick of R, and my code needs to run in production pipelines that need to at least in theory be debuggable, auditable, fixable, etc. by people other than me. Therefore I use Python, because we are a Python team and that's the language that we use, end of story. (Python also happens to be a good choice on our team for other reasons, but that's not the point here). Maybe the best industry where you are likely to find people doing "production" work in R is some form of insurance. But even back in 2017-2020, things were shifting towards Python at the one P&C company I worked for.
  - vamega 2y ago
    Lots of quantitative research uses R. It’s still very popular in the industry. Insurance is also still using a lot of R. Actuaries I know still use it, and they talk of Python, but I don’t see anyone actually moving to using Python.
Balladeer 2y ago
How does "R language" compare to searching for one of the popular R packages? Searching for "tidyverse", "dplyr", or "ggplot" seems to get a good chunk of hits. That being said, yeah, there does seem to be a trio of skills that often go together (R, python, SQL)
- johnnybzane 2y ago
  If you search specific packages on LinkedIn the number of jobs is usually very small E.g. tidyverse or dplyr is like 20-40 jobs. ggplot is 88. There's definitely way more than 100+ companies looking for R-heavy users.
kagevf 2y ago
I tried using "r" (with quotes) on indeed, and got some hits where R was listed as one of the necessary skills.
dkga 2y ago
Perhaps #rlang would work? Or #tidyverse if you are feeling tibblish :)

clircle 2y ago

Why would you do that? R is a just a tool for doing statistics or research. You need to search for jobs in your subject area like "ecologist", "econometrician", "green energy reseacher", etc.

johnnybzane 2y ago
There are hedge funds that like hiring people who know how to manipulate data in R using dplyr and data.table Looking for a similar job where my desire/interest to spend all day in Rstudio is a value add to a business
- nickforr 2y ago
  With apologies if this breaks guidelines: https://hymans.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/3525353?cid=2054&t=R-Modeller-Developer https://hymans.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/3525353?cid...
nerdponx 2y ago
Because if you work on a team you need to use a language that the whole team can work with. If I'm the one R guy at a Python shop, it's not going to work out well. It depends a lot on org structure of course. But I think it's telling that the jobs you highlight are mostly academic jobs where the practitioner would be expected to be a highly competent individual working largely alone, or in a very small group, carrying out research on behalf of some stakeholders, and not likely to have to put anything "into production" any time soon. For example, I used R (data.table) when I was a solo data scientist working on a consulting project where I needed to work with a dataset on the order of a few billion rows. I had nobody around to constrain my choice of tools, so I went with whatever felt convenient, familiar, and ergonomic for getting the job done. Today, I am on a team of 5 other people, none of which know a lick of R, and my code needs to run in production pipelines that need to at least in theory be debuggable, auditable, fixable, etc. by people other than me. Therefore I use Python, because we are a Python team and that's the language that we use, end of story. (Python also happens to be a good choice on our team for other reasons, but that's not the point here). Maybe the best industry where you are likely to find people doing "production" work in R is some form of insurance. But even back in 2017-2020, things were shifting towards Python at the one P&C company I worked for.
- vamega 2y ago
  Lots of quantitative research uses R. It’s still very popular in the industry. Insurance is also still using a lot of R. Actuaries I know still use it, and they talk of Python, but I don’t see anyone actually moving to using Python.

Balladeer 2y ago

How does "R language" compare to searching for one of the popular R packages? Searching for "tidyverse", "dplyr", or "ggplot" seems to get a good chunk of hits. That being said, yeah, there does seem to be a trio of skills that often go together (R, python, SQL)

johnnybzane 2y ago
If you search specific packages on LinkedIn the number of jobs is usually very small E.g. tidyverse or dplyr is like 20-40 jobs. ggplot is 88. There's definitely way more than 100+ companies looking for R-heavy users.

kagevf 2y ago

I tried using "r" (with quotes) on indeed, and got some hits where R was listed as one of the necessary skills.

dkga 2y ago

Perhaps #rlang would work? Or #tidyverse if you are feeling tibblish :)