Qtime Qr_experience Qhow_to_learn_r Qreason_to_learn Qr_use Qtools Qobstacles_to_starting Qr_year Qr_learning_path Qr_reason_experienced Qmost_difficult_aspect Qr_how_often_used Qr_OS Qused_for Qr_enjoyment Qrecommend Qtools_with_r Qtidyverse_learning Qtidyverse_today Qlike_best Qlike_least Qr_problems Qr_discover_packages Qr_share Qr_change Qrobot_test Qrmarkdown Qrmarkdown_apps Qrmarkdown_change Qshiny Qshiny_use Qshiny_change Qpython_use Qpython_apps Qpython_tools Qpython_enjoy Qpython_recommend Qpython_change Qcoding_languages Qfirst_language Qyear_born Qgender Qethnicity Qdegree Qcountry Qindustry Qtitle Qwork_title Qteam_r_users Qr_community Qevents Qhear language 2020-12-11T09:07:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Data Manipulation is easy Server can be quite slow for big data sometimes Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to decrease Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau R 1995 Female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Singapore Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T09:08:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SQL R 1991 Non-binary White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Professional and Business Services R Developer Software developer NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:08:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Shiny,IDE, environment and package ease of use Constantly having to sell value of R to others General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, R, Tableau Visual Basic 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities NA IT 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:11:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 3 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Reproducibility, streamlined workflow (i.e. not using multiple pieced of software to complete data cleaning, analysis, reporting). Decoding error messages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1972 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Education System Research Leader Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:12:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually large community so there are answers / solutions to everything (nearly) NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, i create html pages and print those pages as reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1990 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Health Care and Medicine statistician Statistician 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:12:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Community and tidyverse Working with text files that are not delimited data General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Learnr modules for education I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Text processing, Medicine Visual Studio Code, HPC 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Matlab 1988 Female Ashkenazi Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Academia: education and research Assistant Professor Academic: Researcher AND educator 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:13:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Google Sheets Yes Usually Functional programming; the community Memory constraints General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Google Sheets I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1984 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Canada Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:13:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Easy reproducibility and automation of analysis workflows Difficulties with rlang and similar packages when installing packages with remotes::install_github() General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1990 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor of Psychology Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:13:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, GIS 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shinyproxy Yes Usually Consistency and piping operation Too many packages that does the same thing and the would love R to be more performant (speed, memory, etc) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Companion graphical interface to some R function. I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R, Elisp Caml 1985 Male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Senegal Non profit humanitarian organization Statistician Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:13:54Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Tableau C/C++ 1994 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:13:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating explanatory docs I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month General programming Anaconda 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R C/C++ 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Market research analyst Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:14:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) System set-up issues unique to my institution (proxies, admin rights, etc.) Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis, Causal inference 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Diversity of packages / methods, community Industry stigma General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Documentation, R books, GitHub repos CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R Views monthly blog, RWeekly, Twitter Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Twitter I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Documentation with vignettes, interactive templates, control documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Self service visual querying I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month API wrapper packages, ETL Databricks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R Java 1993 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Senior Analytics Manager Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:14:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Community Tensorflow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 9 I expect it to increase R Java 1997 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Transportation Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T09:14:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Very convinient and simple to use, very powerful, huge community, which allows to find answers to questions NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Stata Stata 1996 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Research PhD student Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Facebook English 2020-12-11T09:14:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Simple, powerful, libraries are great for visualization and the tidyverse is the best thing ever. Thank you Hadley. Built in documentation is generally unhelpful. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Stata Excel 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD Candidate and Consultant Researcher 5 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:14:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud Yes Usually Open source Open source: abundance of packages makes learning the coding language difficult General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Virtual reality programming Anaconda, Matlab 3 6 I expect it to decrease Excel, SAS, SPSS R 1988 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Clinical Psychologist Researcher 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:15:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Procrastination, recreational mathematics 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually The friendliness and supportiveness of the online community (e.g. Twitter), along with the enthusiasm of other community members with regards to sharing their knowledge "Obscure error messages, obscure behavior/conventions from historical baggage, portability with regards to using R on less common platforms such as FreeBSD, and the hell that is R on Windows (for macOS/Linux people at least). Most importantly: Fonts! (Related to plotting and RMarkdown, related to LaTeX etc.) especially regarding cross-platform compatibility." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, bash Matlab 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Not Employed NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T09:15:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1994 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:16:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Hungary Research Statistician Statistician NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:17:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect Yes Usually intuitiveness date format management Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Financial Services and Activities fund analyst Financial professional 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:17:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, Tableau Yes Usually it is simple NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda 5 8 I expect it to decrease Python, R, Tableau R 1999 female White Some college or university, no college degree Russia Research NA Student NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:18:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1990 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Natural Resources and Mining Research Assistant Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:18:54Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses figuring out if I could just use R for specific analytical tasks vs. if I needed to learn to program in R (write custom functions, packages, etc.) and (therefore) how to prioritize which features/functionality to focus on More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Readability of code; extraordinary breadth of high-quality open source packages; community culture, especially re: tidyverse developers/maintainers. (Personal) impression that some industry professionals feel R is inferior/inadequate for taking models/applications into production. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Conda 2 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, perl Java 1986 male White MD/PhD United States of America Health Care and Medicine Resident Medical professional 2 No, not really R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:19:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually The online community When code breaks after updates General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Visual Studio Code 2 6 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1996 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Research Assistant Student 4 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:19:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Usually being able to create reports in Rmarkdown having to deal with SAS users Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R pascal & cobol 1960 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Insurance actuary Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T09:19:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested used native R command line and didn't know about R-studio More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the community and support is growing NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, powerpoint I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1985 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Modeler Data scientist or analyst 8 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T09:20:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data management and data visualisation Nil General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel NA Female Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Malaysia Health Care and Medicine Dr Medical professional 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:20:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The ability to go back and see exactly what you did and change a small aspect of it Usually the errors are fairly transparent, but certain packages can obscure that by throwing a low level error and requires a high level fix, which complicates things. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1985 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:20:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Community, including R4DS Slack and Meetups The Datacamp controversey Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Azure connections to Databricks and geospatial tools Databricks 1 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Applesoft BASIC, then PASCAL, then FORTRAN. Toss in Lotus 123 1970 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Program Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:21:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Statistics More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Spatial data handling NA NA Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Occasionally Mix between interactivity and programming / scripting That there are data.frames, data.tables and tibbl when there could just be one thing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Code documentation I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Python APIs Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 3 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Bash Java 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Phd environmental informatics Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:21:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually R Markdown! Package updates - run I run today might not work tomorrow (I know about Docker but haven't invested time to learn effectively). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Researcher 100 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:21:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating reports I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, R Excel 1986 198 1996 Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Research Professional Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:21:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually IDE Rstudio NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three plus two Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1980 Male Latin American Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analyst Management 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference Facebook English 2020-12-11T09:22:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Rarely That it can be both back-end and still perform powerful calculations without compromising computation speed. The existing IDEs are not very flexible for my work setup. More reactivity resources and examples. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R C/C++ NA Female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Philippines Financial Services and Activities Intern Software developer 1 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:22:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Text processing Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1997 Male Asian One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research PhD student Student NA Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:22:15Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually IDE—python made environment management complicated So much to know. Documentation hard to parse. Large learning to do basic tasks. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None I am just getting started learning programming 1981 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) NA Financial Services and Activities NA Consultant or Advisor 5 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:22:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Text processing, Web Scrapping JupyterHub, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to decrease Python, R, Elixir R 1999 Male Black/African, Hispanic/Latinx High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Brazil Research Research Assistant Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:22:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect No Usually Broad scope of applications nothing bad really General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, Python, R, SPSS C/C++ 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Natural Resources and Mining Resource Modeller Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:22:50Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The friendly community and available documentation. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 2 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1993 Woman White Some college or university, no college degree Canada Health Care and Medicine NA Student NA Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:22:58Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Stats, easy to use NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R, Tableau Python 1992 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Data analyst Statistician NA Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:22:59Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually N N General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1986 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Uruguay Professional and Business Services Advisor Consultant or Advisor 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:23:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The supportive community The error messages and documentation are still pretty technical Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Easier commenting/documenting of personal analyses; reproducible reporting I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Matlab, R R 1997 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Database Specialist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:23:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Visualizations, R online community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Scraping Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Stata NA 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:23:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 3 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The usability of the Tidyverse It is so hard to figure out what types base R functions use General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R, Visual Basic, C# Visual Basic 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Research Scientist Researcher 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:23:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses web app development that doesn't cost an arm and a leg I don't use R any more Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Databricks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually depth of statistical packages difficulty in building production API / using shiny server. Pricing and licensing are prohibitive for startups General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Java, Javascript, R, Scala Python 1992 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Data Scientist / Engineer Software developer 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:23:55Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 3 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Being able to Google a question and finding good clear answers Unclear about the flexibility (fonts, style) of using Rmarkdown as a word processor General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel NA NA NA NA NA Research NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:24:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually Iteration with purrr Trying to stop a computationally heavy command, typically have to go to task manager and quit R/RStudio session entirely. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, PowerPoint decks, dumping data out into Excel. I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Simply creating HTML deliverables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Replacing existing company Excel tools with Shiny apps. I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SAS 1991 NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Market Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:25:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ 1993 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Education Researcher and Statistician Statistician 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:25:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD student Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:26:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I thought it would allow us to improve analysis at work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Super efficient data manipulation with tidyverse Less integration with cloud computing than python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month I'm learning Colab 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SQL SQL 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:26:22Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, #TidyTuesday 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community!! Nothing. I just need to allot more time to study it. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS SPSS 1998 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Philippines Financial Services and Activities Analytics Associate Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T09:26:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Occasionally Functional programming! NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Shiny Server/RMarkdown I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase PHP, R Visual Basic 1995 M Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Hong Kong Education Research Assistant Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:27:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1985 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T09:27:17Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Swirl package I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally It's so easy to do statistics. Without RStudio, I would be lost. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R I am just getting started learning programming 1997 Male Asian, Indian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Not Employed NA NA NA NA NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:27:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse Debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 6 I expect it to increase R, SPSS C/C++ 1992 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Turkey Not Employed NA Statistician NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:28:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Simple and easy to learn as its syntax is much more like generalized. Sometimes the wroor messages are diffult to figure out what they are propmpting. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel C/C++ 1981 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) India Utilities Manager Engineering Management 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:28:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Microsoft Excel, PyCharm 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Python 1988 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:28:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 8 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Pro No Usually Packages for everything NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week I develop ode based models and I use shiny to make those models accessible to non modelers. I also use shiny to automate common analysis and reporting workflows. I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, R, Fortran C/C++ 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Director of clinical pharmacology Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:28:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 3 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud Yes Usually Stats analysis options Debugging errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel Excel 1995 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Research virologist Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:28:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job We hade problems, we could not solve in the exsisting solutions, had to change Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro, SPSS Yes Usually Shiny Error Messages, and the frustration. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Professional and Business Services Middlevel Manager Ipsos Sweden Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:28:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Occasionally CRAN; the community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, R 3 9 I expect it to stay the same R Stata 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Research Postdoc Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:29:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) No Usually Easy to accomplish what I’m trying to do. Doesn’t feel like I’m fighting the language syntax (esp using dplyr) The source of errors in complex scripting settings are hard to find and the errors themselves are largely unhelpful General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, RStudio documentation pane General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R, Rust Python 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Arts and Entertainment Developer Software developer 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T09:29:35Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Continous improvement 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Statistical analysis Programming General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts N/A I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Spider 2 7 I expect it to increase None Excel 1971 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Manufacturing Consultant Management 0 Neutral RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:30:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Applesoft Basic 1969 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Senior Research and Planning Associate Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:30:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work NA More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually It provides straightforward end-to-end functionality The name General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, R 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Python, R, Visual Basic Java 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Insurance Risk modeling manager Financial professional 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:30:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Occasionally The data visualization tools and the focus on formula-based modeling. The data structures can be a bit non-intuitive for me, because I spend much more time with Python. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Julia, Python, R BASIC 1987 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Lecturer Educator 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:31:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It is intuitive and there is a huge active community with many packages that get the job done for projects or for work Sometimes understanding the errors is tough due to many layers of dependencies among packages and function. Understanding documentation and experience are the only way to overcome this. However it can be frustrating when the same error pops up with different use cases. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R, SPSS C/C++ 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Financial Services and Activities Junior Data Analyst/ Data Scientist Intern Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:31:10Z None By myself using a book or online documentation that is not part of a formal course I think knowing R would open new career opportunities Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis Microsoft Excel, Python Finding proper packages to use NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1974 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Information Technologies NA Software developer NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:31:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Usually Easy, powerful and versatile package Help and training materials are in English only. Please add a function to use the Google Translate function. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Shiny app. I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 2 3 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, SPSS Matlab 1975 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Korea, South Manufacturing Data Analyzer & Solution Developer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T09:31:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Clear structure, data.frames are super robust assigning multiple values to different objects like in python (like x,y = (3,4) ) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research NA Researcher 4 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:31:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 7 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and ability to do different statistical analysis using a single tool NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 6 I expect it to increase R SPSS 1988 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Malaysia Research Graduate Research Assistant Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Facebook English 2020-12-11T09:31:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually The community. Too many ways to do the same thing. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Sahred network drive I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau, SQL Excel 1978 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Business Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:31:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It seemed easier than SPSS and wouldn't destroy the budget Data in R without RStudio More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Data Visualization Memory issues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Powerpoint I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, spyder 4 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Visual Basic Basic (not visual... Commodore basic and gwbasic) 1978 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Transportation Senior Consultant Consultant or Advisor 20 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:32:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually How data centered it is/interactive. Convincing people you can build production ready things in it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SQL & Power BI R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Malta Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Facebook English 2020-12-11T09:32:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R Markdown ecosystem, R Studio, tidy*, community It’s not Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Generating md for another publishing platform I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R Atari Basic ;-) 1969 I have XY chromosomes White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education 2nd Career PhD student, Instructor, Entrepreneur x2 Educator 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:32:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2001 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Variety of packages available Poor documentation on some packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, R C/C++ 1961 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:34:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Documentation and community Hard to find R Developer/Programmer jobs - more interest and investment for SAS in the Pharma industry General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Html and Word outputs I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Email processing; Web brower automation with Selenium R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Atom 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1992 Cis male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Clinical Trials Principal Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral R Medicine conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:34:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Domino Yes Usually The tidyverse and Rstudio's IDE sometimes scraping documents isn't as easy as python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, Tableau, Visual Basic, SQL C/C++ 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Data Science Manager Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:34:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job (including teaching it!) We chose to build our data analytics pedagogy around it "Distancing myself from older methodology, esp. becoming literate in tidyverse and ggplot2 and un-learning ""base R"" techniques" More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis, Network analysis 5 10 "Matlab, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, We're a college; we'd love to use some of the ""Pro"" options but, well, $$$..." Yes Usually "I've become ""fluent,"" so being able to quickly crank out solutions to ""life's problems"" ;)" Teaching newcomers how to decipher error messages is a challenge. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Google leads to Stack Overflow... Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Googling some description of what I'm trying to do, and then seeing how others have accomplished it --- and esp. if they've used special packages Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, We maintain both internal and external (public) Shiny Servers... I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, A triplestore, e.g. Stardog or Blazegraph 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Matlab, Python, R You need to adjust this list for us Old Farts! My first language was BASIC circa 1974!!! 1962 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Dir. of Research Operations Educator 12 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:35:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS Excel 1995 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:35:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Learning by doing during a thesis project I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and open source Inconsistent syntax and poor documentation of some packages Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Genomics Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 6 I expect it to increase R R 1996 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Sweden Research NA Student 5 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T09:36:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Ease of use, abundance of libraries NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase R R 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Ireland Financial Services and Activities Settlements Analyst Financial professional 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:36:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 SAS No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS SAS 1972 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Principal Statistician Statistician 5 Neutral UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:37:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Fast results, give me confidence to avoid erros, avoid repeating thinks, reproducibility Working with lists General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SQL SQL 1965 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Portugal Professional and Business Services Consultant Consultant or Advisor NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:37:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I find it readable and consistent with how I think about data Simple hitches can be hard to find answers to General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R HTML 1987 woman / fluid White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Graduate student, isotope geochemistry Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:39:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Rarely Syntax Classes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io 5 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1993 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Azerbaijan Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:39:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It's the first language I learnt and I like the fact that it isn't limited to statistical analysis. Error messages are quite confusing, even if I recognize them with time. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Twitter I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1998 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research NA NA NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:39:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Tableau Yes Usually (1) Extensibility - so many new R packages because of the (2) friendly and productive community (1) On Windows, I experience odd challenges sometimes. And then (2) Debugging - error messages sometimes not helpful. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Suggest adding rseek.org to R-specific search websites even though it is Google based General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS Basic 1980 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:39:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Once you understand the syntax, it's really intuitive "Different packages don't maintain same criteria (for example in "" "")" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel 1983 female White, Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Uruguay Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Researcher 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:40:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually a huge number of aimed packages putting models in production stacks General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, LinkedIn Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R C/C++ 1969 male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bosnia and Herzegovina Telecommunication Head of Department Management 5 I'm not sure NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:40:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1998 Female Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) France Not Employed NA Student NA No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:41:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Package Development 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, VSCode Yes Usually The community is always developing new cool packages NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to decrease Javascript, Python, R R 1990 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Algeria Education PhD student Educator NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:42:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually efficient and readable code with tidyverse strange object orientation and inconsistent names (read.csv, group_by, na.rm) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Java, R, Fortran Turbo Pascal 1982 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T09:43:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 3 6 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Never Simplicity of its syntax and the variety of packages. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1998 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Nigeria Not Employed NA None 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:43:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took programming thinking Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Sublime Text 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, Rust C/C++ 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Construction Data Specialist Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:43:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually ability to control the whole process (get data, clean, explore, model, and report) feeling that I should also be spending the time getting as good with python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau actionscript 1981 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Education Head of Analytics Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:44:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, c# C/C++ 1997 male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Nepal Not Employed NA Software developer NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:44:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1998 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io No Usually Makes clear what the defaults are, easy to write out a statistical workflow. Too many things change too quickly, what used to work stops working. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Bioconductor slack channel. Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript Pascal 1954 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Research Professor Researcher 100 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:46:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to apply statistical analysis Compiling package in Linux General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 2 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1996 Male Hispanic/Latinx High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Brazil Research NA Student NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:46:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Databricks, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually That it's made for data analysis That there are so many different ways to do things. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1990 Male Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Sweden Consulting Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:47:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA Lack of naming standards in base R - read.csv! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, Fortran! Fortran 77 - don't judge 1978 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education NA Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:47:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2001 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 1 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely Nothing, it is necessary evil! There is nothing to like about R! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month analyses I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda 2 10 I expect it to increase None BBC Basic NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Research NA Researcher 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:47:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Tidyverse and community NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), Shinyapps.io 4 9 I expect it to increase Tableau R 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Student Student NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:48:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually Picking it up there isn't all that Comp Sci guff you have to learn with most other programming languages and I can just get on. Especially data munging, it's horrible in Python for example "Having to wait for the ""R Version"" of something when a Data Science tech or technique is being developed (See Apache Arrow, Torch, Neuro-Prophet etc.)" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to increase R BBC Basic 1979 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United Kingdom Information Technologies Lead Product Manager - AI Systems Data scientist or analyst 30 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:48:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually dplyr my colleagues don't use R Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating internal printable reports I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, transactional systems I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, QlikView C/C++ 1981 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Manufacturing Deputy General Manager Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:48:36Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The online community amd support The learning curve from Excel General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to decrease Excel, SPSS C/C++ 1990 Straight Cis Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Student Student 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:50:17Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), OpenOffice Sheets Yes Usually It can do almost anything Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, PSPP Basic 1980 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Instructional Lead Administration 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:51:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Modeling, statistical analysis Deep learning General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, App I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1984 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Energy Data scientists Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:52:19Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 EMACS ESS mode, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually integrated pipeline for entire statistical analysis up to publication-quality documents sometimes with the fast-moving nature of things in things like reproducible research/knitr/documents it's really annoying to get search results from 2016 or get pointed to defunct packages when the current best state is different. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, SAS R 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education visiting assistant professor Researcher 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:52:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Flexibility Inconsistent conventions for functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Store/share all of my code, share as HTML usually I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Policy Analyst Researcher 12 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T09:53:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually tidyverse for data cleaning and visualization NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, I find it generally helpful to organize chunks of code and haven't looked back! I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda 3 5 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R R 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:53:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Managing packages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1992 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Indonesia Research NA Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:54:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Dplyr is much better than pandas Sklearn is better than tidymodels General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Sql Java 1991 Male Asian, White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Non profit Director Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T09:54:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 6 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually All data loading, manipulation, and analyses with a record of everything I did in one place Huge learning curve, difficult to teach and remember commands off the cuff General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, My R Ladies chapter's Slack forum General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS MS-DOS prompt commands 1982 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Research Associate Statistician 2 No, not really Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:55:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau, Google Sheets Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Slack I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Glueing r scripts together, querying apis, legacy NA 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau QBasic 1986 Man White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Education Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:58:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually RStudio IDE and community support NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1953 Male White Some college or university, no college degree Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Property appraiser/negotiator Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:58:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job MS Excel and MS Access could not hack it Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 5 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io, nvimr No Rarely speed, capacity, documentation, community, scripts, logic, consistency, order some documentation and some error messages are too hard to understand General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, documentation, traceback() General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, screen share I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, experimental, report for self I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Visual Basic 1974 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Arab Emirates Transportation data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:58:19Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 As a part of IAI Actuarial Exams I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Copy Paste in Word Document I expect it to increase three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Java, R, SQL Excel 2000 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA I'm not sure NA Email English 2020-12-11T09:58:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested None More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually NA NA R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase R R 1976 NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Information Technologies Professor Educator 5000 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference, R Finance conference, PyCon conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T09:58:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1991 Cis female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Public health planner Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T09:58:34Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python Yes Usually Easy language Debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization Anaconda, Conda 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1994 Female White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Spain Research Research assistant Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:59:08Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Data wrangling is easy Putting into production isn't that straightforward Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data Pipeline and Orchestration R, Shiny Server, Airflow 4 8 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R Java 1977 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Singapore Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:59:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, R, Stata, LaTeX Excel 1994 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Liechtenstein Research Research Associate Student 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T09:59:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually problem solving and plotting complex data manipulation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation R, ArcGIS 3 NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Ruby Python 1992 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Virgin Islands Research research analyst Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T09:59:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Tableau Yes Usually Rstudio Base R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 3 7 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R, SAS R 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 9 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T09:59:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually The flexibility, and by now i've really learned how all of the methods and classes work Nothing to speak of General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS SAS 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 3 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:00:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Pascal 1985 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Health Care and Medicine Data scientist Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:00:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning to write functions Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Complex Analyses Writing Functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau SPSS 1975 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Analytics Coordinator Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:00:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS SPSS 1991 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:00:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel NA NA NA NA NA Insurance NA Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:00:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of use That more people don't use it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, Visual Basic Java 1982 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:01:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Tableau Yes Usually R is best at what it does. All the packages increases the ease of use and help get the task done in the most efficient manner. Better guidance for using some python packages like Keras and Tensorflow with R Studio. More help/guidance in some technical things which doesn't require writing code. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase """five""" I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, Tableau R 2000 MALE Asian High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) India Not Employed NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:01:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Very open and helpful community Remembering how to read documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Business Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:01:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I can create everything what I need strange errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1989 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Education assistant professor Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:01:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually great community and online resources nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Stata Stata 1983 female Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Information Technologies CEO Consultant or Advisor 8 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T10:02:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1999 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Love R some old R basic features General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views I don‘t I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Perl 1968 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Austria Professional and Business Services NA Consultant or Advisor NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Finance conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:02:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities The complexities of possibilities and uses means there are a lot of different entry points. Choosing the right one and getting confused by others was a major hurdle More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually reproducibility learning threshold makes it difficult to introduce wider in my organization General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating html page reports I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research Senior Research Analyst Researcher 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:02:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never Community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS R 1990 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Insurance Actuary Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:02:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Medicine 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA Constant breaking (well, warning) changes in tidyverse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA R, SAS Basic? Pascal? High school was a long, long time ago 1966 NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Researcher NA Neutral NA NA English 2020-12-11T10:03:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, R, Stata Visual Basic 1990 NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Research Post-doctoral Researcher Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:03:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Very dynamic, you can do almost anything data-related NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:04:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning syntax, which includes data structures and decoding errors More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The smug sense of satisfaction when I beat it into submission and accomplish what I am trying to do. The time it takes to achieve what should be simple General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Course materials in classes I teach I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, creating code for courses that is more easily readable that regular r scripts I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month I have been exploring other people's shiny apps to see what I might do with it. I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Perl 1962 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research and Education Professor Researcher and Educator - equally both, not one or the other 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:04:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Speed, readability, community Package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R I am just getting started learning programming 1984 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Natural Resources and Mining Senior Financial Auditor Financial professional 5 Neutral RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:04:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, LibreOffice Calc No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, official reports of my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda 3 NA I expect it to increase R R 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France "non profit sector (in a french ""association"") for doing research" chargé d'étude Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:04:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually many packages, free difficult to find relevant packages that ease life General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R Java 1992 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Information Technologies Research associate Researcher 2 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:04:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Mathematica No Occasionally Flexibility, statistical capabilities whilst still being a programming language, community Documentation, errors, General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Julia, Python, R, Wolfram language Python 1998 Male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) United Kingdom Not Employed NA Student 10 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:05:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Julia Yes Usually As a statistician it has all the tools for the job mostly deployed in C code so it’s fast. Also the ggplot and its extensions are great! I am the only weirdo that uses it Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Julia, Python, R R 1987 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Associate Professor Researcher 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:05:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 6 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually The statistical analysis is explicit rather than hidden. I work a lot with parsing pdfs, and wish there were more facility for this (aware of pdftools). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, CSS, HTML, STATA Excel NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:05:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Skill transfer from S then S-Plus, learned during grad school since mid 1990s I wanted to do statistical analyses early on - less solid documentation than S-Plus. Later on, frustrating lack of consistency of functions, now stability of tidyverse as a new dialect makes it challenging to teach. More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis, teaching statistical and machine learning methodology 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), SAS No Usually Once I learned it (was a SAS user first), S language has always felt more natural. Movements made in direction paralleling tidyverse are only helping with this. "Breaking changes and the challenge to convince my students that even though tidyverse is unstable, it is absolutely worth their efforts to adopt. ""English is a living language, too..."" argument is a bit of a stretch." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, For my clients, Rmarkdown into Word or HTML, for students into ioslides. I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Reports for clients in word. I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS Basic on a TRS-80, then Pascal and Fortran 77 1965 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Stats consultant and instructor in Faculty of Health Sciences (med, dentistry, pharmacy, etc.) Senior Biostatistician Statistician 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:05:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Ggplot2 visualisation Basic visualisation is a bit ugly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Hong Kong Research PhD student Researcher 2 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:05:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 NA No Never Visualization and RStudio low speed Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, FORTRAN Excel 1986 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Research Postdoc Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:05:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually RStudio IDE Documentation format in alphabetical order. I was used to the Stata standard, which is much better, imho. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month testing formatting I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month course exercises. i hate python. Jupyter Notebooks 1 1 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Stata BASIC 1968 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Professional and Business Services Managing Director Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:05:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually That it is a programming language I still don't understand how some of the base objects work. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda 3 5 I expect it to increase Visual Basic Visual Basic 1966 male White, Native American Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Not Employed NA Consultant or Advisor 2 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:05:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1997 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Workplace not allowing R or requiring use of other systems such as SAS or Power BI. R not available in the employer's Azure instance. No buy in for RShiny or other R infastructure More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually "RStudio and RShiny. The ability to get ideas implemented. No ""ceiling"" as in SAS. Non constricting. Please save me from Power BI." The implementation of non standard evaluation seems overly complicated. 2) R and RStudio is pushed aside for Microsoft, SAS or some other thing. Use of RStudio or tidyverse such as sparklyr instead of SparkR is frowned upon. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, I have to put the result on microsoft Teams. So it is very limited. This is a corporate decision because we are a Microsoft Shop I expect it to increase 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Medicine Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS BASIC. before Visual BASIC (1982) 1965 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Consultant Biostatistician Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not at all R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:06:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy and convenient Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1981 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Nigeria Information Technologies Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:06:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The things I can do with it the sometimes dicey interaction between blogdown, hugo, and netlify Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE), PyCharm 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Manufacturing Senior Engineer Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:06:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I like that it speeds up my work and that the work I do is repeatable That it's hard to get others in my field to use it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month automated text data extraction I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month geospatial arcgis 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R NA NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Natural Resources and Mining Geologist Researcher 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:06:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Flexibility to manipulate the language (first-class functional language) Debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Image processing Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code, Virtual environments 3 7 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Stata Excel 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Health Care and Medicine Doctoral fellow Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:06:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Read R inferno :) Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA the. inconsistency. - e.g. there are three languages - base, biconductor and tidyverse. I've had interviews where I've used tidyverse when they were expecting base, or I've used data.table when they were expecting dpylr General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code, sublime text edit 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Go, Julia, Python, R, mathematica, delphi programmable hp calculator NA NA NA NA NA a mix data scientist/ engineer Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:07:05Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1989 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Analyst Management 2 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T10:07:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Open source All is good General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1991 Woman Asian One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Indonesia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Junior Researcher Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:07:16Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Medicine 1 4 RStudio Desktop (IDE) I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is Its very efficient NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA Email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning, Medicine Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 2.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python Java 1998 Male White Some college or university, no college degree Germany Health Care and Medicine Doctorate Student of Medicine Researcher 2 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:07:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually The ability to clean, visualized and automate analysis Difficult to navigate relevant packages to your area of interest. Also multiple packages with incompatible outputs General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1986 Male Black/African Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) NA Health Care and Medicine Public Health Expert Medical professional 0 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:07:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually the online community is very helpful. There are lots of available packages for analysis, but I can also build my own if I need. It can be a memory hog. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Markdown I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Go, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau SAS 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Strategic Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:07:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Interactive data visualization Unhelpful error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R C/C++ 1992 Non-binary White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Health Care and Medicine Business Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:07:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Genomics 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS Yes Occasionally very flexible "there isn't a review of the package, no ""gold standard"" and very few packages to create a report" Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic SPSS 1987 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Research Postdoctoral researcher Researcher NA Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:07:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses The biggest obstacle for me was the fact there are dozens of different ways and packages to do an anlysis in R. As a beginner, I was learning how to do things in base R, but also seeing examples from other packages (e.g., Tidyverse). This was confusing to me until I started to focus on using methods consistently from the same package. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's free and has wide user/support community. Package updates such as Tidyverse are becoming increasingly difficult for me to keep up with all the changes. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Mostly GIS & remote sensing related apllications Anaconda, R 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1981 male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Remote Sensing Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:07:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), a cloud rstudio in a docker container (not sure if it's one of the other choices) Yes Usually I can do everything all in one go Other economists don't use it as much General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, web site w/ distill I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month scraping Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to stay the same R, stata Basic 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Economist Researcher 12 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:07:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The speed at which I am able to do simple data cleaning tasks, often in just several lines of code. R code execution error General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I plan to stop using it Python, R R 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Non-Profit Research and Evaluation Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:08:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Análisis - General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Cinco I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1986 Masculino Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Peru Education Docente Educator 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:08:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Visualization 4 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, Shiny Server Yes Usually RShiny NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo R packages built for search such as the sos package Email I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS R 1995 male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Health Care and Medicine data scientist Statistician NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T10:08:31Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Statistics course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Genomics, Medicine 2 4 Microsoft Excel I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is Free but it’s hard no knowledge in Arabic language Errors I use R GUI General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase 15/3 =5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None SPSS 1988 Female Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Saudi Arabia Education Lab specialist Medical professional 1 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:08:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Its power, it is free and it is evolving In my company, not so many people use it and that creates an issue General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel NA Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Sr Director Data Insights and Analytics Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:08:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation venv 2 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, R C/C++ 1992 Men White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Israel Not Employed NA NA NA No, not really NA Discord English 2020-12-11T10:08:47Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Psychometric analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, SPSS I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is It’s free. R has multiple packages to make the analysis that I want to do. The packages are well supported with statistical theory and empirical uses. I love that people can modify their graphs. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None I am just getting started learning programming 1978 Female Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Teaching Assistant Researcher NA No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:09:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, Tableau Javascript 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Customer intelligence team lead Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:09:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R PHP 1984 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine Assistant Professor Medical professional 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:09:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 6 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Many packages to choose and use Hard to understand error General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1995 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Vietnam Sensory science NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:09:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, geospatial 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), QGIS Yes Usually syntax is readable to someone who doesn't know R integrating packages properly can be confusing, eg. sometimes I use tidyverse but sometimes base and sometimes data.table. I wish there was just one way. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, creating .md for github website I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Java 1989 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Geospatial Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:09:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually everything: packages, language syntax, community, IDE That it's not more popular General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Twitter Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R Pascal 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Education Professor Researcher 2 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:09:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to write software that is easier to expand than using C Managing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Clinical trials 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) Yes Usually Building custom packages and using R Markdown Debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Package releases, including vignettes I expect it to increase 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Clinical trial design using gsDesign at shinyapps.io I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R I'm so old you didn't even include the first languages I used... 1953 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Scientifit AVP Researcher NA Yes, somewhat R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:09:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Flexibility and power, abundance of packages. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Pharmaceutical Support Scientist Software developer 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:10:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Flexibility Inconsistent syntax in base r General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R FORTRAN. Then APL 1956 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Data scientist or analyst 15 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:10:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Ecological modeling; Wildlife abundance estimation 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually the package system and availability of so many packages debugging and troubleshooting errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Wildlife Biologist Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf Email English 2020-12-11T10:10:31Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I like using R because most code can be written in a readable way. I like using R Markdown for it's clarity and communication value. Error messages and the package documentation are WAY too technical for me to understand. Most of my time is spent re-reading documentation or guessing what error I made. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1997 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Postbaccalaureate Fellow Researcher 3 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:10:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 4 10 Python Yes Usually Flexibility NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase R F# 1992 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Research junior researcher Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:11:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I plan to stop using it Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to increase R SPSS 1990 female Asian, White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:11:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 3 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1984 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Hungary Insurance actuary Statistician 1 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:11:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Shiny 4 9 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually The pipe and clean, data first syntax Debugging within functions can be difficult General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R Excel 1991 NA Prefer not to answer One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Automotive Senior Product Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:11:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Rstudio, being able to use a language in Rstudio is wonderful factors Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Excel, Java, R Java 1995 Female Hispanic/Latinx One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Brazil Research Student Student 2 Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:11:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally Package ecosystem and intuitive syntax Maintaining packages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R Visual Basic NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities NA Financial professional 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:11:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was useful for my work (not required) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Reporting 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Versatility and ability (especially with, for example, dplyr chains) to express what I'm trying to do in a readable way It can be tricky when dealing with some package dependencies, especially related to databases and Java, and I've found it a little difficult to document everything I have set up (e.g., particular version of R, RStudio, various packages and all of the specific dependencies and configurations) so colleagues could replicate what I have and cover me when I'm out of the office (and this is just to get them up and running, let alone teaching them R well enough to independently squash bugs). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Reporting applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Delphi 2.0 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Product Manager (incorrectly titled, though; should be Senior Data Scientist or higher) Data scientist or analyst 3 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:11:59Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 9 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The speed. Tidyverse. It changes too much. There are a million ways to do something and everyone teaches R differently. I found the tidyverse and that helps. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, rmarkdown and MS Teams I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, html files I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R dBase and Clipper (1980's) 1963 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Information Technologies CEO Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:12:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud Yes Usually Reproducibility and Replicability high memory consumption General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Package documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to decrease Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Argentina Education Teacher Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:12:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning the RStudio development environment Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Teaching classes in Statistical Modeling 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally RMarkdown is an excellent way for me to both communicate my topics and to have a written record of what I have down. There is a huge repository of packages, and I suspect some excellent ones that can be helpful in my teaching. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic FORTRAN 1954 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Instructor Educator 4 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:12:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 NA It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 3 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Occasionally Simple syntax, many packages for different applications Chaotic interactions between packages. Does not fail cleanly. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics, workflow management Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Java 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research PhD Student Student 2 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:12:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Community Underpowered General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1995 Man White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:13:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job We needed an open source application for analysis and interactive applications. Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Open source, free, and lots of community knowledge to learn from. Troubleshooting General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Presentations and report documents (Word/pdf) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1985 Female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Aquatic Biologist Researcher 2 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:13:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1990 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Matlab, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Everything. I used SPlus before so over 20 years now. Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Twitter I expect it to increase 15/3 five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1957 Male Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Director of Research Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T10:13:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Great functionality NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Stata Stata 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Research Assistant Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:13:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Server Pro No Usually there are packages for everything NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, slack, google docs I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 3 I expect it to increase R Basic 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research postdoc Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:13:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It is easy to use / the tidyverse makes different packages coherent / I can do my job almost exclusively using it The updating process (making some of my old code work) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Web scraping news articles Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Python 1995 Male Arab Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Morocco Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Engineer Statistician 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:13:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Vim with Nvim-R plugin Yes Usually The well documented package and CRAN The memory usage when using it as a background scheduled process General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R C/C++ 1989 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Singapore Research Postdoctoral fellow Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:14:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It's open source and the huge amount of resources that are published on it Some things are just so much quicker to do in e.g. Stata General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 2 3 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R Stata 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD Student Student 4 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:14:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Tableau Yes Usually Statistics and data visualization. Also tibbles are awesome. That more people don’t use it, so sometimes I have to do more in python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data apps I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1986 Male Black/African, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:14:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Customizable visualization Was unable to use it properly in network drive which was a big pet peeve. I use r only in personal laptop General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1985 Female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Research NA Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:14:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Best for data manipulation Not useable in production environment Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 6 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, C# C/C++ 1997 male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Nepal Professional and Business Services Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:15:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually "I don't alter data. Any error is reversible. ""debugging"" enables me to fix my mistakes." Too few people using it / I'm still dumb about vectorization (all apply stuff) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Downloading data from a DB2 LUV database Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R SAS 1985 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Business Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:15:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 NA Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Vizualizing (ggplot, gganimate, etc) Lack of standalone state-of-art Machine Learning frameworks (PyTorch and TensorFlow in R still need Python) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, E-mailing Rmarkdown-documents to my colleagues I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning R 5 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, SQL, VBA Excel 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Transportation Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:15:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1998 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, rstudio blog RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, R 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Ruby C/C++ 1974 NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Japan Health Care and Medicine Manager Administration NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:15:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested NA Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server Yes Usually Interactive data exploration No option for strong typing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Julia, R, Rust, Haskell R NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-11T10:16:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Usually Integrating analysis and reporting using markdown NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, UI for packages I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS BASIC or Pascal 1971 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Senior Director, Statistics Statistician 100 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:17:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The incredibly supportive and inclusive user community, and the widespread availability of free resources and learning materials. The usual hiccups and problems under the hood - nothing huge though. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SPSS, Stata R 1984 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Researcher 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:17:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It’s seemingly endless capabilities to do anything. And there always seems to be a package available that simplifies a solution to a problem. It’s hard to proliferate - I am the only person in my organization I am aware of that uses R; but communicating about its’ versatility and capability is difficult. This may not be an inherent problem of R, and more about peoples broader understanding of data, analysis, modeling, etc General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Distributing reports as html documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None R 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Continuous Quality Improvement Manager Management 0 Yes, somewhat R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:17:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually 1. The syntax is easier to grasp and implement 2. Compared to Python or Julia the documentation for R is more clearer and easier available on the web 3. The IDE is very well laid out and easy to use 4. The core packages such as dplyr, lubridate, base, blastula, stringr, gt and many more are very well documented and intuitive to use 5. I personally have worked on Python and Julia but there is something about R that always brings me back to R 1. I would suggest all the documentation to include sections on error troubleshooting 2. The examples on most of the functions are very basic which are good to start out with but intermediate and expert level examples would provide a user insight into what some of the functions are capable of 3. I know that it would be asking for too much, but how about providing lifetime 24*7 publication of 1 app for a user General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Text processing Microsoft Excel, R 2 4 I expect it to decrease Excel, Julia, Python, R Excel 1991 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Business Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:18:22Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually A lot of packages support specifically for data science Some compatibility gap when parsing or retrieving data, and lack of support to ARM64 systems, such as ARM windows or mac. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1987 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Taiwan Health Care and Medicine Attending Surgeon Medical professional 1 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:18:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Base R: native vectorization. Tidyverse R: Everything I wish it were an OO language but it just isn't Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Oh, bwa ha ha ha I'm old. TRS-80 Level I BASIC 1966 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Sr Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:18:43Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding the time/energy to learn Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Fun to learn, lots of learning resources I'm still new to understanding R error messages so sometimes I don't understand what I did wrong General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, R, Tableau, Visual Basic, C#, SQL Java 1977 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:18:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Github Yes Usually Many different ways to accomplish a coding task, lots of help online Nothing major, I love it Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating automated PDF, html, or Word reports shared via email; Organizing code in a similar fashion to R Notebooks I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, HTML, CSS SAS 1985 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Epidemiologist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:18:50Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually Versatility N/A General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Fun I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic COBOL 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Director Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:19:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually After writing a great script I feel very satsified and like I achieved something That Python is more common in the private sector General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Online courses, like Datacamp Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month creating html files I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Visual Basic, DAX Excel 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Business Analyst Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:19:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Native integration of stat methods with a robust data manipulation interface, especially with tidy packages Error messages are obscure, some things like loops and lists can be really tricky Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Academic publication I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, R, Stata SAS 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Arab Emirates Education Assistant Professor of Political Science Researcher 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:19:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's a clearer than python Api for Apache Spark could use some work General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Slack and Databricks Notebooks I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R Javascript 1990 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:19:28Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Rcmdr with RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2 Yes Usually The graphs I enjoy the experience Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Just as a convenient method of having the script and graphs as a HTML documnet I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling PsychoPy 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R FORTRAN 1963 Heterosexual male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Education Technical Demonstrator Ecology Educator 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:19:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually can eventually figure out how to do exactly what you want adequately commenting code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1978 NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Proffesor Educator 3 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:19:48Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Matlab, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Great for statistical analysis and making the plots. errors and dependencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics, Medicine Anaconda, Conda, JupyterHub, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Server Pro, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1994 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research PhD student Student 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:19:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took NA More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Easy to learn Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Social Media I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1997 Male White Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) United States of America Not Employed Student Student 20 Neutral RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:20:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Power BI Yes Usually The R community/documentation Very little drag/drop. Not really the point of a programming language so I get it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, The RStudio blogs (Tidyverse, RStudio AI, Tidymodels) are fantastic Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Power BI/DAX Java 1990 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Professional and Business Services Data Analytics Manager Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:20:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Statistical analysis, data cleaning and manipulation, visualization. "NA" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, David Robinson's YouTube screencasts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase fifteen Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Game development NA 4 10 I expect it to increase Python R 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Executive Assistant Administration 0 Yes, definitely NA R Discord Server English 2020-12-11T10:20:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility, speed of calculations NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Fortran 1960 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Belarus Education Professor Educator 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:20:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 7 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Usually It makes it easy to quickly run interactive and explorative data analyses Modeling and scripting is much more difficult compared to python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R R 1991 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:21:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Not only its functionality, but also the values and generosity of the community and its leaders NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R SPSS 1988 Cisgender man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Assistant professor Researcher NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:21:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Managing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually It is a best tool from prototyping & deploying serious Data Science for me. It can be hard to integrate into existing pipeline. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), AWS, Azure (would love to use RSConnect) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Croatia Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Software developer 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:21:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Visualization and statistical functionalities That obvious improvements to the languages are seldom pushed upstream. Also, the interfaces to packages are changed a lot over time (for example Tidyverse) which pushes you back on the learning curve. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Network data analysis Anaconda, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS Matlab 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Financial Services and Activities Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 4 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:21:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io No Usually Data types are more intuitive than Python's Memory intensiveness General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics, Medicine Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Research PhD student Researcher 15 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:22:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually His inclusive community Slow running Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1995 Male Berber/North Africa Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Morocco Research Phd Student Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:22:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Not available in my work environment. Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse, as a coherent framework designed around data analysis (and now modeling) tasks, is a serious differentiator. RStudio IDE. Open-source. "I first started using R for the Kaggle Heritage Health Prize contest, and built some custom ensembles using 10 then state-of-the-art packages. A year later, I tried to re-purpose the ensemble, and 5 of the packages now longer worked, for reasons I can't recall. But I came from a background in SAS, there is SAS code I wrote 30 years ago that still works in production. This kind of instability isn't a big problem for a solo practictioner doing one-time things, but it's an impediment to scaling up big-time to production. But I also think RStudio and some of the community recognize this, and are addressing it in various ways. An ""author's statement about intent to support package X in the future"" would be a good thing to add." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), RStudio monthly blog on last month's CRAN pkgs At present, since I'm not using R for paid work, I'm not really sharing anything I'm doing. I just learning, slowly. I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month I bought 2 books to learn. Haven't done much yet. Most of the above are things I want to do. I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, SAS Basic 1954 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:22:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Downloading and installing the software Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of data cleaning/manipulation RStudio can be slow on my system General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization, Machine learning, Neuroimaging analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research Graduate Student Student 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:22:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 7 RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Rarely NA "It's slow for in doing machine learning projects. R can't return multiple data frame in a function (limitation of R, although i have done this in alternate way)" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R, SPSS Python NA Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Research NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:22:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community and depth of packages available Difficulty running large datasets General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Quantitative Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:22:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Visualization part data set management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Genomics Anaconda, Conda 5 10 I expect it to increase None perl NA NA NA NA NA Education Researcher Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:23:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Powerful tool for data analysis Slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Telegram and Facebook R groups Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R packages by name’s list Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Stata Stata 1974 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Legal Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:23:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually Innovation in data science tools, particularly the tidyverse Have spent hours on problems that appeared to be simple General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS ALGOL 1954 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Epidemiologist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:24:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally it works the most of the time ! for loops General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1992 male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Health Care and Medicine Statistical Engineer Statistician 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:24:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Graphics and statistical analysis Debugging errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1983 male Hispanic/Latinx One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Brazil Taxation NA Software developer 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:24:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Downloading and installing the software Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Plotting/tidyverse and rstudio Memory consumption/speed seems slower than Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:24:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SAS, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Flexibility and customization of code Inconsistencies in syntax across user-built packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Analysis reports I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel 1993 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 7 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T10:24:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse The error messages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R FORTRAN 1950 MALE White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Not Employed RETIRED Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:25:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R Pascal 1972 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Reporting Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:25:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1990 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shiny Server Pro No Usually opensource, new ideas from across the world lack of consistency between packages, ever changing packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, We're using it to overcome deficiencies in in-house web searching I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS basic, pascal 1965 F White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine statistician Data scientist or analyst 300 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:25:36Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Tableau Yes Usually The packages that are available and the user community. I still struggle with remembering some of the syntax which requires a looking at the help files or googling for answers. As I use it more I know the syntax will become more natural. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Fortran 1975 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Manufacturing Director of Materials Research Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:25:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Domino Yes Usually Community and focus on data science itself Some capabilities that are in other languages: speed, NLP, APIs, connections to external resources General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Domino I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Text processing, API Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 7 I expect it to increase R C/C++ 1980 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T10:26:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Discovering a better way to do something Base R changing of syntax to be less readable Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating reports I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1997 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Epidemiology Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:26:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually open-source, kind of all over the place freeform community, tons of packages for specific things I need to do like phylogenetics and species distribution models the rJava package and the way R talks to Java has brought me to tears General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, homework for classes, Git Rprojects I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R HTML 1999 woman White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Research university student, research assistant Student 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:26:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating reports for internal use I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Mapping applications, Data analysis apps I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, C# Basic not VB 1955 M White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Health Care and Medicine Software developer Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:26:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually That things happen immediately, no need to compile Errors are hard to understand even now General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Slack, social media I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating reports to share with colleagues I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month We have internal lab applications in shiny I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing, NLP Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1986 Woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Researcher 4 Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:26:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Library management More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The richness of libraries The different packages version and underlying dependency to OS specific libraries General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, DevOps Visual Studio Code, Pycharm 5 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Scala C/C++ 1982 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Belgium Information Technologies Business Process Principal Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:26:55Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Power BI Yes Occasionally The way it is built as if it is built just for data science Cryptic error messages, deciphering the help. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase R, Visual Basic BASIC 1976 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Manager operations Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:27:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse, easy wrangling, flexibility, visualization NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Julia R 1992 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research PhD student Student 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T10:27:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I needed a powerful, free analytics language to do a specific volunteer project Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually tidyverse. I learned base R first and it is, sorry, terribly like Fortran. Tidyverse and other packages changed my R-life. Base R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Almost always either by accident. That's how I became aware of the elements of tidyverse. Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Fortran 1955 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Partner Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:27:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Learning R from a software development perspective More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Web applications (Shiny), Web APIs (Plumber) 4 7 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally R's condition system; the S4 object system Performance (the infamous two-language problem); lack of resources about software development topics General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating Word documents and PDFs for reports I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Web application development I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Julia, R Java 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Health Care and Medicine Senior Software Developer Software developer 1 Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T10:27:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Modeling/machine learning 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Specific Data Analytics tools It must focus more on native Machine Learning tools not borrow from other software General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1988 Male Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Professional and Business Services Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:27:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R R NA Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 7 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T10:28:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, RStudio Package Manager Yes Usually The community The derision of R by other programming communities. github issue or source code Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month data collection JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SQL HTML 1996 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Customer Success Sales 100 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:28:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, LibreOffice Calc No Usually Flexibility and the eco-system Some econometric methods not implemented in a proper way, yet General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Shiny Server deployed sites I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month web scraping Microsoft Excel, R 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R, Ruby, HTML HTML 1990 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany German University (Research and Education) PostDoc Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:29:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server No Occasionally Lots of flexibility, great data summary capabilities. I often receive data in Excel (.xlsx) format, and it's often difficult to read into R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel Javascript 1981 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Psychometrician Statistician 15 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:29:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work bad function names (in base) (e.g.: library) and inconsistencies / edge cases, More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 3 3 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Occasionally ggplot2 adding row vectors to matrices General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, mostly for analyses to have intermediate results next to the code & the code nexxt tot the output in an html report I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Server Pro, pycharm 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R Java 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research PhD Candidate Researcher 5 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:29:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I love all of the capabilities of R. I am in the process of learning RMarkdown and Shiny that were not taught in my courses back in 2011-12. Knowing what package to use/learn is difficult. I also struggle to understand many of the error messages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, bookdown.org General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedded results in reports/presentations to my organization I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month I just started learning this past week so I hope to do all of the above next year. I am currently creating reports in word and html I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month I am currently learning Python. I haven't used it for anything yet NA 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1992 Female Asian, White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Retention Specialist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:30:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Graphics in ggplot, endless possibilities with packages Googling how to use new things General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Neuroimaging analyses Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS Matlab 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Research Postdoctoral researcher Researcher 10 No, not really UseR conference, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:30:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Managing packages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Medicine, Operations 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually It's a programming language and not a gui app like tableau / SAS /etc ROracle on Mac was a pain, SQL blocks in notebooks quit working (bug logged) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Reddit + Slack for reddit's /r/bioinformatics Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, HTML pages for email distribution using knitr I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic, SQL/PLSQL Pascal 1976 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:30:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Highly flexible and easy to run and share analyses. I feel closer to the data than with other stats programs and it's free. Most annoyances are at the package level. CRAN standards for error reporting could be improved. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing, Data scraping Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, SPSS R 1991 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:30:44Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the RStudio development environment Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Occasionally NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, SPSS PHP 1992 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Ghana Health Care and Medicine NA Student NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:30:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1994 Male Asian One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Malaysia Financial Services and Activities Data scientist Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T10:30:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 SPSS, Tableau, Alteryx Yes Usually Flexibility and customization. Overall, I realized I really like building solutions using code Updating packages. Sometimes its a rabbit hole when you install one package and it has dependencies. This should be easy but I don't know how many times I pulled my hair trying to get package to load. I think I have to remind myself to do wood R tools for Microsoft. That seems to usually fix things but who knows General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Books, pretty much anywhere. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R markdown I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Just generally for documentation and sharing results I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau, Alteryx SPSS 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Health Care and Medicine Manager, Advanced Analytics Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:31:00Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data cleaning and tidying is quicker than in Excel Took me a bit to learn to format plots in ggplot; I do not like how the graphs are not interactive - can not hover over a point and determine its values like in Excel. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, this is a 'trail' for my team and I am the guinea pig :) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1978 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) environmental specialist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:32:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, share on server I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week creating pdf reports with text and figures I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS R 1978 female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:32:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually reproducibility Some packages that I need dont work in harmony General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Turkey Education NA Student NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:32:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase seven Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation Pycharm 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1987 male Asian, South Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Financial Services and Activities Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T10:32:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually collaborative/inclusive R community, tidyverse spiderwebs of dependencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R Java 1985 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:32:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, SPSS No Usually The community and the open source RSelenium. someone has to create a new RSelenium package. I find deploy apps a little complicate too. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same fifteen divided by three = five (cinco in portuguese) Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month i m tring to do some webscraper with python Anaconda, Conda, R 2 4 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic SAS 1980 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Professor Educator 10 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:33:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to professors I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data Collection in text analysis. Showing Text fragments and collecting coder's judgement. I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1998 male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Germany Research NA Student 3 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:33:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Uni It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Rarely Modelling and data manipulation, much better than other programs Sometimes it is hard to navigate packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) I don't really share a lot I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, It is part of a Uni project Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Stata, Mathematica Delphi 2000 Male Mixed One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United Kingdom Not Employed I don't work None 10 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T10:33:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding the various object models (S3, S4, ...) Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Genomics 2 5 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Genomics Conda, docker 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R Java 1994 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:33:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau No Occasionally Ease of use at some points is more flexible than python easier implemantation of deep learning methods like tensorflow etc Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, R, Tableau 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic R 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Greece e-commerce business intelligence analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2020-12-11T10:33:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to teach it. Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Welcoming community Package updates breaking code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 1 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Visual Basic 1962 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education professor Educator 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:33:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually "pkgdown (and similar) sites make documentation easy to find/read - more beginner friendly than Python; friendly community; RMarkdown" NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to increase R R NA male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research NA Researcher 2 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:34:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Doctoral Candidate Student 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:34:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Good Documentation Pythonistas condescend me General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Personal blog or web site owned by you, github I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, vim 3 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Java 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Transportation Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:36:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Results Some packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1996 Female Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Research Master's student Student 5 Yes, somewhat R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:36:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Powerful and repeatable data cleaning, analysis, and visualization. I'm a biologist that runs recurring fish surveys every year; I have automated analyses and graphs that make my life WAY easier. Error messages are borderline useless. Package version control is terrible and breaks old code occasionally. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Peer-reviewed publications. Yearly reports. I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1986 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining Fisheries biologist Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:36:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's the most intuitive language I know Debugging in R shiny General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Financial analysis, Web scraping NA 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:37:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse and RStudio Using `apply` or `purrr` Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 100 NA RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:38:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually Flexibility of what you can make the language do through package development That there are different factions that have strong beliefs about what should be used and how - and they can have dramatically different views. For example, tidyverse vs. not tidyverse. The S4 users, etc. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Text processing, Scripting and automation Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, Shell SAS 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Chief Innovation Officer Software developer 4 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:39:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 University I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Variety of packages Too much RAM General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I cannot share result of my analysis. It is about work I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R C/C++ 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Automotive Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:39:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It feels intuitive NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, HTML files I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Sharing results internally I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Databricks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1981 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Statistician 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:39:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, GIS 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually community resources/open source NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1981 male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research Assistant researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:39:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning NSE and R language More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually community package management Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month custom applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, raster data analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, jetbrains ide 3 10 I expect it to stay the same Java, Python, R, SAS Java 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Research Senior Researcher Statistician 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:39:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 5 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's close to maths logic NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shiny apps on electron browser I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Operational research problem Visual Studio Code 2 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R R 1993 M Arab Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Algeria Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Studies manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Finance conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:40:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally It's flexibility and openness. "It's reputation among ""real"" software developers." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, RStudio Blog Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Model simulators I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Interfacing with non-R systems Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R Matlab 1987 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:41:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of data wrangling and connecting databases Package specific knowledge base Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Tableau, SQL Excel 1986 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine VP Data and Analytics Management 1 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:41:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community It does weird stuff sometimes Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning R, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Java 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Belgium Health Care and Medicine Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:41:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Powerful statistics platform with many versatile packages. Knowing how to integrate with iOS Swift mobile apps and Node/Express JavaScript servers. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, iOS Swift apps I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Java, Javascript, R, Ruby, Swift Visual Basic 1945 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Developer Software developer 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:42:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The community The View() and the difficult to look data like it's possible to do in Excel General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA NA Javascript 1989 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Non-profit NGO Lawyer Legal 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:42:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Not having an entire tutorial for modelling (scoring for example) Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis, Optimization of marketing spending / Marketing targeting / Fraud detection / Customer clustering 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Strong statistical community / quality packages / intuitivity of tidyverse commands / Shiny / Markdown Difficulty for industrialization ( plumber/docker/shiny) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Subscription in R blogger Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Power point / Internal gitlab I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Taking notes in markdown language and transform them to word I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Make R code usable by non R users within the company I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS C/C++ 1987 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Insurance Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:42:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually developing packages, the tidyverse, Rmarkdown managing dependencies especially packages from github General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1987 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Associate Software developer 50 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T10:42:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job It was required for my work Initially, making the conceptual shift from the SAS data step Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The supportive community and long term commitment of RStudio PBC to tooling Lack of native support from other tools (like GCP) / IT-Eng resistance General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Too often ... screenshots in Slack I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating automated html reports for customers (i.e. this is part of our product) I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Data collection I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Java 1979 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Advertising VP of Data Science Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:42:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally Lots of packages with good documentation Slow computing compared to Python or Julia General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Jupyter Notebooks, R, Spyder IDE 2 5 I expect it to stay the same R Pascal 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland NA GIS analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T10:43:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's flexible, professional and free. It is difficult to find documentation for the libraries, for example and index of all the functions included in a package. And the base R documentation is too dense and scarce. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Simple PDF documents with pandoc I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic, Stata Excel 1994 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Chile Not Employed Economist Researcher 0 I'm not sure NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:43:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning the RStudio development environment Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Scala SPSS 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:44:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it may provide additional opportunities to enhance the work I do Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It is free and there are a lot of ways it can be used/I can explore Not knowing which packages are actually being used particularly when I've used others code as the basis of what I'm doing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1996 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Charity Research and Insight Lead Researcher 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:44:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Apple Numbers, BBedit Yes Usually Great user community; non-commerciality; huge package library Obscure error messages; CRAN is hard to browse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Twitter, LinkedIn I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Fortran 1949 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Not Employed na None NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:44:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took NA More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating course resources (e.g. assignments) I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month NA Conda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 4 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Julia, Python, R, Wolfram Wolfram 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor of Statistics Statistician 35 Yes, definitely UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:45:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually human readable code and elegant syntax package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1989 Woman Black/African One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Information Technologies Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:45:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 5 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Tableau No Usually The online community *is* helpful, as long as you understand where to go, who to ask for help, and how to ask for help. "I'm starting to find the online community (at least through social media) to be exhausting. The ""look how clever I am"" snark and passive-aggressive attacks on others does not represent what the community used to be. I see some of this spilling-over into presentations now, too." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I plan to stop using it I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau BASIC 1976 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Administration 2 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:47:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Its simple Big data analysis Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation NA NA I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase R C/C++ 1993 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education GRA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:50:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually easy hard to spot the mistakes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Medicine NA 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1985 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine Staff scientist/bioinformatician Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:50:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually It is powerful and makes nice visualizations It takes me a long time to create even one plot because I don't use it often enough to get familiar with the syntax. The error messages confound me as well. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SAS SAS 1981 F Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Manager, Data Science Management 10 No, not really RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:50:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Self taught from 2013-2020, grad school class in 2017, R User's Community at work for ongoing learning 2019-2020. I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Environmental data analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Visualization, stats, many packages made by experts. Not Applicable General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Animating graphs Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 7 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R, Octave Excel 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Environmental consulting Staff geologist Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:50:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages NA Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS C/C++ 1979 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Research NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:51:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding a good development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually the tidyverse consuming web service by using SOAP approach (SSOAP package is not maintained) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, creating custom html and pdf for intranet website I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it R Visual Basic 1967 male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Greece Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:51:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Reproducibility Indecipherable error messages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda 1 1 I plan to stop using it Excel, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Excel 1984 Woman Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Research Methodologist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T10:51:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), PowerBI Yes Usually Lots of blogs and support materials online to debug code While I can build I code for data cleaning, I have not figured out how to schedule it to run as a workload without manually running the code myself each week. Basically I'm struggling to put work into production with my current set of R Studio capabilities or learning more related tools. Data engineers that I work with prefer python so it's been harder to figure out how to move R work off of my local machine. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Very basic html reports that embed plots with comments. I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Running packages/code others have developed in my organization Anaconda 1 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R, M/Power BI/Power Query Python 1987 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:51:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There is a package for everything I need to do. I got used to RStudio, and it's so easy to use that now I am suffering every time I need to use anything else... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Documentation of packages I use. CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating websites, but with the simpler system (not blogdown). I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization, Making my own command-line tools. Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 1 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, R, AWK, Bash Excel 1990 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Research Researcher Researcher 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:51:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Lots of puzzles to solve. My lack of skill with the debugging tools. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R Applesoft Basic, 6502 Assembly Language 1948 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Not Employed NA Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:51:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, log file analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Tidyverse, vectors, and it tastes like LISP :-) Gaps in package availability. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R 6502 assembler NA NA NA NA NA Information Technologies Sr Support Engineer Software troubleshooting and support 0 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T10:51:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Investigative journalism 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Its flexibility, and the way it makes the complex easy (even though it can make the easy look complex too!) Unhelpful error messages R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Writing training documentation I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, OpenRefine Fortran 1958 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Media Freelance datajournalism trainer Educator 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T10:52:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Server, Shiny Server, QlikView, Oracle Database No Usually The fact that when I miss any functionality in R, I can most often develop it myself (unless someone already has). The lack of workflow tools that are directly integrated with R, such as Airflow (drake uses to many resources such as memory or disk space). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Explore package source code CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Internal Shiny Server and Plumber API I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, R, RStudio Server, Shiny Server 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R R 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Financial Services and Activities Risk manager Data scientist or analyst 4 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:52:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse Writing functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Medium I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code, Ipython 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R Ruby 1981 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Thailand Education NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:52:43Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Fast processing of high volumes of data. That it may not be as popular as python for future jobs I might need to apply for. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Excel spreadsheets or CSV files. I don't use plots. I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Cobol 1967 Female White Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data consultant Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:53:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1996 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month html I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R NA 1977 m White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) advisor Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:53:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Tidyverse package is consistent and expressive. magrittr pipe operator was a game changer for how I write code. Great online community and learning resources such as cheat sheets, adv-r etc. Type instability and occasionally surprising results from computing on zero length vectors. Inconsistency in function naming and arguments. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R documentation and source code Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1987 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Education Student Recruitment Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:53:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Doing simple analysis takes less steps and is more intuitive than in other languages I would like to see true parallel programming, removal of single threading General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Things that R packages can't do like SFTP transfers Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1990 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) South Africa Ecommerce - Supply Chain Product Manager / Business Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:53:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, geospatial 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Research Spatial Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:54:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Domo Yes Usually Feeling like a super hero because I can run circles around old me that used excel for everything No SDKs from google, or any company except msft,no R code examples in any API docs. Fortunately, great community fills in for lack of SDKs. It's spoiled me with ease of setup and backward pkg compatibility. I realize how spoiled I am in the rare case I use python. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Domo I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Posting to confluence I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 1 1 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Domo Excel 1975 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Media Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:54:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually tidyverse syntax, community, packages slower than c++ Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1992 female North African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine data analyst Researcher 3 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T10:54:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Being able to build R packages. Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Top 40 New R Packages by Joseph Rickert on R Views site. Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month I build Shiny Apps to supplement R Packages I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, R R 1987 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Education Consultant Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:55:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Debugging More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Many packages, Shiny server sometimes performance issues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Server, Shell 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R Pascal NA NA NA NA Germany Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst 30 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:55:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Language is easy to master; you can do everything with R NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, rweekly Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R FORTRAN 1987 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Insurance actuary Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:56:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually NA Lack of overall industry support compared to Python. R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 2 7 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R C/C++ 1978 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:56:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding time to advance my knowledge Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Interactive reporting 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Friendly, helping and inclusive community as well as approachable leading figures of R development, openness Fast development that I am unable to follow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1991 apache attack helicopter White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Research data manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:56:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SAS 1974 Female White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator NA No, not really RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T10:57:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually endless possibilities RAM limitations Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1969 M Cosmopolitan Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:57:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse and how consistent it is/easy to use. RMarkdown is a useful feature to work with non-programmers. The syntax of Base R is not that intuitive/can be confusing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Private Github/Gitlab I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing, Medicine R 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R, Swift C/C++ 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Medical Student Researcher 10 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T10:57:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Statistical Analysis of large datasets (business analytics) ERRORS and do not know what it means General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, articles in Medium.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Articles in Medium.com Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Stata Basic and Fortran (I am old) 1960 Female Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate professor of Economics and Business Analytics Educator 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T10:58:00Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse makes it easy for new programmers to learn but robust enough for advanced users to do complex tasks Before I found the Tidyverse, R operates very dissimilar from other languages like Java, Ruby, JavaScript General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Javascript, R, Ruby, Tableau Java 1983 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Manager, Research Analytics Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T10:58:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Interactivity and expressiveness Performance (but it has gotten much better over the years) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, tutorials with learnr package I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Scheme Matlab 1978 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T10:58:39Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, SAS Yes Usually It is free! Statistics analysis General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel 1970 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Animal nutrition Ruminant Nutritionist Consultant or Advisor 1 No, not really RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T10:59:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took The differing code styles/philosophies packages use Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, shiny apps 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually there is a package for everything that I want to do base R is painful, but I do not want 20 tidyverse dependencies in every project General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, PDF lecture handouts I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling application I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 7 I expect it to increase R R 1988 male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Postdoc Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:00:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Open source, huge online community Steep learning curve at first. Different islands of approaches (base R vs. tidyverse), one first invests a lot of time in learning things like for-loops and is then told these approaches are outdated/inefficient. The benefits of being open source and having a huge online communit come at a cost; there's less of a consensus/paradigm on state of the art coding/programming style. I wish I had just started learning tidyverse from the outset, instead of base R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Only as a user of shiny apps I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R SPSS 1991 female Middle-Eastern Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Researcher 100 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:00:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis, Feature Engineering 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Google docs, Google cloud, Datastudio, Sublime, Yes Usually Tidyverse, the open source development and support from the community (R4DS (slack group), Rstudio community), visualisation, Hadley Wickham, Max Kuhn, Julia Silge, Rob Hyndman. The amount of material books i.e. Advanced R available freely available. Scaling up of complexity in terms of mental models, as work becomes more programmatic. Particularly error handing when mapping over large numbers of databases. Oh and the use of standard databases for examples, when the mapped version of the code does not work. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R4DS slack community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1985 NA Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA r4ds slack community English 2020-12-11T11:00:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud Yes Usually it is easy and don't require lots of programming skills Some times I don't understand the error General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ 1991 female north africain Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Tunisia Professional and Business Services data scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:02:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It could do what I needed to do in my job Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Good online documentation of packages and consistency across set of packages Dependency management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Java 1989 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Manufacturing Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T11:02:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R Basic 1976 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Sweden Research NA Researcher 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:03:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Google sheets & drive, with package No Occasionally Limitless possibilities Error code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Google colab 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1978 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Thailand Health Care and Medicine NA Educator 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:03:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1983 On the job R is free, no license issues Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Demographic analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Microsoft Word Yes Usually It is free. The available tools are exceptional. Our office relies on R for all of our visualization and web delivery projects. We would not be able to do our work without it. The documentation in inconsistent. Also, R is reaching the point where there are too many packages, so finding the right tool can be difficult. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars NA I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic, D3 SPSS 1959 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T11:03:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) Yes Usually Stronge Feeling like I will definitely be able to make it work. Sometimes I feel I can't follow the speed of development and changes on R new way of work General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1967 Male Asian Some college or university, no college degree Lebanon Telecommunications Project manager Management 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:03:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Connect Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Croatia Professional and Business Services Data Science Intern Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T11:04:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Azure Devops No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Java, Python, R Java 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Financial Services and Activities Quantitative analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:04:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro, AWS EC2, S3, RDS Yes Usually Community "NA" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Go, Java, Javascript, R R 1983 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Associate Director Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T11:06:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The fluency and diversity of R packages for accomplishing statistical approaches it's too easy to do something wrong without getting stopped General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Java, R Java 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Staff Scientist Researcher 12 Yes, definitely NA industry slack English 2020-12-11T11:06:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually One can do complex things in a fast and uncomplicated manner the language is not as intuitive as perl General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, perl perl 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Post-Doc Researcher 2 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:07:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 2 3 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Extremely powerful and high-level; entire analyses can be completed in just a few lines Error messages are bad making the language nearly unusable for actual programming General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Bash R 1999 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:07:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course required for my career path (school; not part of a specific job/course) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R SAS 1989 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Research Postdoc Researcher 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:07:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Data preparation and management Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel Yes Rarely RStudio Environment NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, YouTube General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to stay the same 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks NA NA NA Python, R, Swift Swift 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Research Student Researcher NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:07:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Relevant and updated packages for statistics Error messages sometimes not clear General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Deployment of machine learning models I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS SAS NA Female NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Statistician 1 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T11:08:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Shinyapps.io No Usually NA The active community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Visual Basic 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Project Researcher Researcher 15 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T11:08:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, R is my glue language for ETL tasks and data analysis projects spread across multiple data sources and sinks. 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, PostgreSQL Yes Usually Fastest way I can go from idea to useful output. Very supportive community. RStudio's contribution to the ecosystem. Debugging but like any language, learning R involves lots of trial and error - just part of the process. At the moment, the lack of an easy or free way to provide integrated SSO authentication to my Shiny apps. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Package help files and vignettes community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, The RStudio R Views top 40 blog Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server 2 3 I expect it to decrease Go, R, SQL BASIC 1964 NA Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:08:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Community support, package ecosystem Vetting packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1992 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Senior Psychometrician Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T11:09:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely breadth of available packages NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Fortran 1952 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Health Care and Medicine Senior Scientific Consultant Statistician 20 Yes, definitely UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T11:09:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course NA Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually The packages for statistiscal methods available. Graphing The ugly apply-versions (better with tidyverse). Inconsistency in naming. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com R packages built for search such as the sos package, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Medicine Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel 5 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R Algol, Fortran (why is that not in the list?) 1949 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T11:10:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Using the tidyverse for data analysis Having to reinstall all of my packages when I update Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Matlab, Python, R Java 1999 female White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Military USMA cadet Student 20 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:11:01Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The functional aspect and the diverse package base NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same NA Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1977 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Sweden Construction Energy engineer Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA NA English 2020-12-11T11:11:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, DESeq2 2 5 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), VScode Yes Occasionally It is free It is slow Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code, Django 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, Shell Python 1993 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Health Care and Medicine PhD student Data scientist or analyst 4 No, not really RStudio::conf, PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-11T11:12:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Domo No Usually The community. The syntax. R Markdown. Shiny. Start counting at 1 instead of 0 :) Cryptic error messages. Lack of general computing task examples. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating downloadable HTML reports in Shiny apps I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, PHP, R, Ruby, Perl, bash shell Original BASIC followed by Pascal. (I am not young) 1958 Female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Media / Publishing NA Combined journalist and data analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T11:13:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The Tidyverse (readability, ease of use) and the RStats community Too many organizations primarily use Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, I do almost all of my day-to-day R work in RMDs I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 4 I expect it to increase R R 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:13:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning the RStudio development environment Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually It is created to analyze data, all works perfect with that. I would like to have experience similar to pycharm with programing and debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning pycharm 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R do not remember, it was long time ago 1978 Maile White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Education profesor Educator 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T11:13:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work compatibility & installation following frequent package updates More than once a day Microsoft Windows Deep Learning & AI 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Reticulate, Keras for R, Tensorflow Yes Usually Keras for R 1. R's (or rather RSTudio's?) deplorable neglect to keep Keras in line with TF's progress!!! 2.Tidyverse, excluding ggplot2 Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community-rstudio.com is too general for my problems Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Recommendations from RStudio AI Blog Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Basic (OMG, you seem to ignore that...) 1948 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Austria Professional and Business Services CEO Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T11:13:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Use the programme for data analysis (statistics and others) Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Reproducibility of analysis Errors and sorting them out. Sorting out data before doing analysis General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Python 1971 male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) South Africa Research Researcher Educator 50 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:15:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually RMarkdown for readable reports, easy to learn for non-programmers and many resources for genomics analysis This was the first programming language that I learned, so I´m not as critical as other programmers. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, HTML reports I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Jupyter Notebooks 2 10 I expect it to increase R R 1985 f White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Staff Scientist Researcher 20 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T11:17:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Occasionally Interactive data analysis is so easy, built-in vectorization Language quirks take years to learn General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Public RStudio Cloud project I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards (without flexdashboard) I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Go, Java, Javascript, Python, R Alice 1992 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Software engineer Software developer 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T11:19:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Analysis capabilities Understand error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel R 1972 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Information Technologies Commercial Manager Sales 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:19:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Audit trail of analysis I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Matlab 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:19:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Readability Performance General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Reddit Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Prototype Software I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing, Data pipelines Anaconda, R, Visual Studio Code 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T11:20:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It's so extensionable, it can do just about anything There are so many packages that often do a similar thing, you don't know which one is optimal, or is actively maintained, etc. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1979 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Statistician 7 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T11:20:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Modeling/machine learning 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually free and much packages less material of deep reinforcement learning General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 9 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1969 NA Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) China Education NA Educator NA No, not at all UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:21:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis 5 9 Databricks, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Piping and package selection NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Databricks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Matlab 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior data analyst Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T11:21:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing multiple versions of R on a machine (or updating from one version to the next) More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Geoscience 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, git Yes Usually It is intuitive, powerful and free Some of the weird error messages - especially when creating Rmd docs General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), MS Teams I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Custom html docs to share code, figures etc I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1986 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Natural Resources and Mining Geochemist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:21:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually Flexibility Differences in approaches in different packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Our own shiny server I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R SPSS 1970 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Auditor Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:21:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually It provides great flexibility to design custom data and analysis workflows. Native R syntax can be extremely clunky and hard to read. That's why I tend to use tidyverse functionality as much as possible. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic Fortran 1948 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Scientist Researcher 2 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:22:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested basic fundamental of modern programming language Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally specific domain - data science less popular than python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1973 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Malaysia Natural Resources and Mining Pipeline Engineer Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:22:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually flexibility, the many packages for all needs, tidyverse & ggplot2 Documentation & explanation of R packages, bugs & limitations, General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1968 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine NA Statistician 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T11:23:21Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I like pipelines and the easy to use syntax. and also Rmarkdown. It has less packages than Python. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, for sharing in kaggle I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau C/C++ 1988 female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Iran Not Employed NA NA NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:23:58Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The tidyverse Lack of examples General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Automation Tableau, Visual Studio Code 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Swift, Visual Basic R 1984 Male White Trade/technical/vocational training, no degree awarded United States of America Commercial real estate Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:25:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility, elegance of coding with pipe, ability to run scheduled scripts on a server Managing package dependencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Use R for data wrangling and feed results into tools like Datawrapper I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R Java 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany News Media Coding editor Data journalist 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:25:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day NA Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, R R 1995 female Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Education NA Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:25:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Large community; freely available tools; wide-ranging tasks capabilities (from data cleaning --> analysis --> visualization --> white paper --> manuscripts); sits well on the shoulders of pandoc for multiple document types (switched over to using R Markdown for LaTeX); makes me feel like a superhero, occasionally I really want to be able to write a document exactly how I want it for LaTeX output, but knit HTML output too. This is a lot harder than it seems, the more complex your LaTeX document becomes. (Still, I find R Markdown to be the best at this, out of other document generators I've tried.) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Slack I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day "Creating publication-ready articles for submission, I use R Markdown for websites, but I don't use the blogdown package. I also create custom PDF documents but I don't use pagedown. Lastly, I use this for ""white papers"" to disseminate results prior to manuscript writing." I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1987 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education PhD candidate/graduate teaching assistant Educator 3 No, not really Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:26:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day mix of Windows on the local machine and RStudio server Linux on VPN cloud Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Stata; occasional text editors like Sublime and Notepad++ Yes Usually reproducible reports using rmarkdown (1) the cacophony of object types; (2) absence of formal labeled integer type (circumvented by library(sjlabelled), but it should be in the base); (3) I've never been able to understand how to best use dynamic variable names, between formulas, quotations, enquotations, quasiquotations, and all that crap. I form a variable name as a text via paste0(), I want to use it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts "rmarkdown::render(output_format = ""word_document"") attached to emails" I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day data analysis reports I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Server 2 8 I expect it to increase R, Stata BASIC (circa 1986) 1973 male I am an immigrant of European origin in the U.S. Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Professional and Business Services Principal Scientist Statistician 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T11:26:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to use Easy to learn Companies prefer less R and more python as per my experience General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1997 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Not Employed none Student 5 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:27:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The fact it was developed by the statistics community package managment and memory consumption General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning RStudio Server 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, bash C/C++ 1974 male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Argentina Research professor Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T11:27:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse, rstudio N/A General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1983 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Natural Resources and Mining NA Sales NA No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:28:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1982 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T11:28:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Didn't know about RStudio and #rstats Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The R Community Different package, different syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase R Pascal 1983 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Insurance IT Coordinator Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:28:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually it's completely open source, has a large and supportive community, and is applicable to lots of applications Struggles when certain packages won't install or run properly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R R 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Research Research and teaching assistant Researcher 2 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T11:28:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually data analytics and visualization tools Text processing and document handling Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, learnr I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Visualization, Text processing, Automation Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic Python 1993 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Application Developer Software developer 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:29:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Plotly Dash Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau Python 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bulgaria Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:30:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io No Usually Easy to search for things on the web Package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Package documentation (help files) Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Company static reports I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documents to share with colleagues that shows code too I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Matlab 1987 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Statistician 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T11:30:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Free! That job prospects seem better for Python users. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, SPSS Matlab 1982 NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:30:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Downloading and installing the software Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 3 5 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse Setting up/getting started General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau 4 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic Excel 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Finance Director Management 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T11:31:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Tidyverse and rmarkdown are such gaming changing packages. Much better than Python. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Sql Excel 1986 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Professional and Business Services Analytics Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Facebook English 2020-12-11T11:33:34Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually With RStudio and the data visualization pane—it seems like the best environment to *work* in. I can think through problems and try things in a way that feels fairly intuitive in R. "When there's poor documentation. This is tied to the ""data types"" answer from above. Sometimes there's something I can't quite ""see"" about a data type that is preventing me form doing something. And it takes me an inordinate amount of time to realize this :)" Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SQL SQL 1984 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education PhD Student Student 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:34:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets No Occasionally replicability, easy to scale tricky to keep running - fine though Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ 1974 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Dominican Republic Professional and Business Services data scientist - spatial Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:35:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Functional programming style for data manipulation and visualization Maybe that there are only few real object orientated packages for machine learning (such as MLR3) and that they are not that commonly used such that I can always find answers to issues I encounter in the internet General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1998 male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Germany Financial Services and Activities Data Science Intern Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:36:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Open source, excellent documentation, syntax is easy to understand None General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Web app to host journal I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1979 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Assistant Professor Medical professional 10 Neutral R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T11:36:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Google Cloud Platform Yes Usually There's a package for almost any analysis or modeling challenge I face. Not supported well in many corporations (seems like emphasis is on python). Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel 1 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R Fortran if we are being honest 1966 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Consumer packaged goods. Director Analytics and Insights Management 9 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T11:36:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, time series 4 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Free yet comprehensive updates are quite cumbersome General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, Visual Basic C/C++ NA NA White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Researcher Researcher 10 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:37:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 24 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Data visualization Data Exploration Shiny Markdown Graphs are not publishable quality Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com I expect it to increase three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization, Machine learning Conda, JupyterLab 3.0 2 5 I expect it to stay the same R R 1989 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Research Research Assistant Researcher 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:40:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Git No Occasionally the community, the breadth of available packages inconsistencies in base-R (no naming scheme, styleguide), bad documentation Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, R Java 1979 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Education Lecturer Educator 20 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:41:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server, Databases Yes Usually Syntax, and community Single threaded General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, CRUD I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Go, Javascript, R, SQL Excel 1988 Male Asian, Black/African, White, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Switzerland Information Technologies Software engineer Software developer 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:42:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually great community and help/support NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating documentation for personal use I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Stata Basic 1969 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional 5 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T11:42:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1994 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Brazil Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:43:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It encompasses most of what I do in data analysis and statistics. That Python is mentioned more than R in job interviews. ;-) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, LinkedIn, Twitter I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, SQL Visual Basic 1969 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Manufacturing Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:43:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses consistency of function calls based on packages is lacking. Tidyverse is good move in the right direction More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Tidyverse + Tidymodels + user support + solutions available Symbolic math is missing (sympy / Mathematica) , function calls in packages do not follow a standard General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, youtube search Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, static webpages with results I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io, Juno(on Ipad Pro) and Juno Connect 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Mathematica Mathematica 1954 male Prefer not to answer One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Financial Services and Activities Portfolio Manager Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T11:44:10Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2001 On the job I needed to understand it to install/support for my customers Managing packages Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) I only support installation/packages on shared it systems NA NA Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shiny Server, SPSS, Postgres / PostGIS No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, RStudio Server Pro 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Go, Rust, bash modula 2 1969 m White, Native American Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research computing director Administration 100 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:44:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1979 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 15 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T11:45:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually I'm fluent enough in it that I can basically think in R and work very quickly Steep learning curve, which makes it hard to convert everyone else to using it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, creating reports of analysis results for internal use I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Ruby Plain old BASIC (on an Apple II) 1984 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Director, Institutional Research and Planning Administration 6 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:46:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually You can use it for everything data related The different syntaxis of the many packages that you have to use. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda 2 10 I expect it to increase R, Stata Basic and Pascal 1966 Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Mexico Professional and Business Services NA Consultant or Advisor 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:46:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually That it is Free Software, and Science should be transparent and accessible to all. It's poor handling of memory management. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation NA 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Java, Matlab, PHP, Python, R, SPSS Basic 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Research Officer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T11:46:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Occasionally Open source NA R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to increase Three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SPSS SPSS 1981 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Education NA Educator NA Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:48:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The clarity of the syntax, esp tidyverse NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Text processing Conda, JupyterLab 3.0 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1972 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education lecturer Educator 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T11:48:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Versatility Speed (relatively slow) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, ShinyStan interface for evaluating Bayesian models I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R Excel 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral researcher Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:49:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Its flexibility and ease of use. Cryptic error messages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Interaction with data bases I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Bar code generation Shiny Server 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SQL Visual Basic 1987 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Peru Trade (Retail or Wholesale) NA Management 0 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T11:49:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Databricks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Power BI Yes Usually Everything really Nothing really General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Power BI I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Databricks, R, Power BI 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R, SPSS, Power BI R 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Bulgaria Professional and Business Services Analytics Consultant Data scientist or analyst 0 I'm not sure RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:49:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually syntax error messages, building packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Rviews Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1971 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Manager of Data Science Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T11:51:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Data cleaning and reshaping is second to none. Functional programming makes life so much easier. Also, developing packages/websites/apps is so incredibly easy with R. Programming, mostly error handling functions are a bit clumsy. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Associate Bioinformatics Scientist Researcher 4 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:51:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The R community is incredible The number of packages is overwhelming and it may be hard to find a proper one for a project General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing R, PyCharm 3 7 I expect it to increase Javascript Basic 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Insurance Data Science Team Lead Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:52:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually pipes and was debugging lack of environments General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Tableau I expect it to stay the same 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, Tableau, Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Java 1995 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Utilities data engineering Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:52:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), text editor No Usually versatility package dependencies with breaking changes to old code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day daily summary report of a data flow I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic pascal 1974 male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Financial Services and Activities consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T11:52:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do spatial analysis Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually R Markdown The tidyverse instability General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Local community Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Conda, R, Visual Studio Code, PyCharm 4 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, R, Lua BASIC NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Management 3 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T11:52:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Rarely Ease of use and large packages Debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R C/C++ 1989 Male Asian Some college or university, no college degree India Financial Services and Activities CIO Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:53:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA Memory issues/usage General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, PowerPoints I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Pycharm 3 6 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1993 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Insurance NA Data scientist or analyst 6 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T11:53:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself then formal courses, but online I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The infinite possibilities, ie the flexibility Nothing? General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase SPSS SPSS 1976 Demi-woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Associate Professor (tenured) Researcher 5 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T11:54:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The satisfaction of having an R code work when I figure it out, and a solution that can accomplish two hour's worth of work in Excel by hand that take's less than a second to run with a script Having to constantly fuss with working directories and the {here} package to bring files and and out of R. Even with R projects and {here} it's still a major annoyance every time I want to (e.g. add folders; change file locations; etc.) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Stan discourse forums community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Scripts for my analysis. I prefer them to regular R scripts because of the code blocks and how much easier it is to keep them organized when I have many tasks or parts to a script I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Visual Basic 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Graduate school/Clinical Psychology PhD student Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:58:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Azure Machine Learning Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Financial analysis Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Python 1993 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T11:59:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis, Financial analysis, I use R for pretty much everything. Currently for my thesis, im using it for a scoping review. 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually 1 stop shop for the entire analysis process from cleaning data all the way to reporting. debugging. While tidyverse is beautiful, i still have a high learning curve with some packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, I share visualizations on my social media (linkedin, twitter, instagram) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day mostly creating word document reports and HTML pages for personal finances offline use I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1982 male Asian, White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Health Care and Medicine student, research assistant Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T12:01:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually language structure data types General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Stata Basic, Pascal (Com'on, I'm not that old!) 1972 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Education Professor of law Researcher 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:02:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learn new syntax from all the new packages compare to base R More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally It is really easy to manipulate large data tables and to do plots quickly Too many packages with similar functions and too many different syntaxes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Making custom html reports I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Bioinformatic analyses I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Research Bioinformatician Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:02:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work R's help I don't use R any more Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's very intuitive, emphasizing data analysis steps & obscuring unnecessary technicalities nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1983 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Romania Information Technologies data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T12:02:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Medicine 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Medicine Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic, C# BASIC 1961 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Systems Engineer Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:03:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics 5 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually simplicity and tidyverse handling genomic data General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Conda, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase R, nextflow Python 1992 man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research PhD student Researcher 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:03:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis, Forecasting, Recommendations 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually The possibilities, myriad solutions, and the thrill of solving and automating; along with the ROI for both projects and career. Dispelling myths (e.g., R can't be used in production, or R can't be used for this or that, or R is a dying language) and convincing others that it is more than worth it to learn and use, especially in a business setting. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Tableau, internal Shiny Server I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health & Wellness Manager, Data Science Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:04:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally How easy it is to share with a colleague and have them be able to easily follow what I did (especially compared to Excel) That it's not always easy to find examples when learning about a new package General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, teaching my colleagues - it's easier to follow than just using scripts I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Visual Basic, SQL Excel 1999 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Associate Business Analyst / Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 6 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:04:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Financial analysis 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro No Usually Works well Dealing with package versions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Connect 2 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ NA female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-11T12:04:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Supportive community Grumpy old users. That R core circle is closed. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Twitter I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Pascal 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Research NA Researcher NA Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup NA English 2020-12-11T12:05:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually The power of the language - and the many great statistical packages. The power of the language - it's difficult to fully understand and aways be aware of the intricacies. And the many packages - which are all often nconsistegn in their conventions, APIs,... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, The documentation, Hadley's books General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating technical reports within my organisation I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Monitoring I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Remote sensing and climate research JupyterLab 2.0, R, PyCharm 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, Python, R, Fortran Fortran 1964 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Radio Occultation Team Leader Researcher 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:05:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Packages, package building, Git, & visualization Using several packages for the same task sometimes creates errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1986 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Quantitative Policy Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:06:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Teaching 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, DigitalOcean No Usually The user community. Also that I can do the entire scientific workflow with 1 tool (which is good for both research AND teaching), transparency and ease of sharing work, & that it is commonly used in my field so easy to collaborate, get help, build from others' experience, and collaborate. Other community's misconceptions about its applicabilty and capabilities. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Teaching I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic, FORTRAN BASIC 1978 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:08:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Data analysis/plotting requires less lines of code than any other language/library combination. Understanding exactly which arguments any function may accept when its implementation uses the ellipsis “...” General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week HTML R guides for students and assignment PDFs I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, R, PyCharm, Sublime Text 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Pascal 1983 M White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Graduate student Researcher NA Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T12:08:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Reports generated with RMarkdown I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1995 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Consultancy NA Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:08:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Server Yes Usually simple code and fast resolution of problems it does not have interface with Matlab General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, SAS, SPSS, Stata Excel 1973 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Mexico Education Associate Professor Educator 2 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:09:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Every package is a bit different, so coming from SAS (for example), it was difficult to understand why every procedure operated a bit different, in terms of syntax and output. Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually It's free so I can put it on every computer. Inconsistent procedures and documentation across packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating reports I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS, SPSS C/C++ 1979 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Statistician 5 No, not really NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T12:09:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Downloading and installing the software Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There are packages that make data work easy. Many of the best packages are actively developed and the breaking changes are frustrating. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R Weekly Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, PDF documents and website but not using the newer packages I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Data pipelines Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R FORTRAN 1983 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Transportation Project Manager Software developer 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:09:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Easy data wrangling pass-by-copy behavior and one-based indexing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau Python 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Data Science Specialist Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-11T12:11:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually I like that there is a whole community of people out there building new packages and walkthroughs to make common analytical tasks easier to do. Debugging and tracing errors in my code. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Analytics Manager Management 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T12:12:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually It's so easy to rapidly develop an analysis solution and output meaningful charts/graphs NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Tableau 4 10 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Level I BASIC 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Consultant Consultant or Advisor 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T12:13:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Rmd speeds up my workflow including analysis and reporting. Connection to external databases can be tricky. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, PHP, R, SPSS Excel 1993 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Education Data Analyst, Teaching and Learning Coordination Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:16:03Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel NA male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research scientist Researcher 0 I'm not sure NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:16:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, bash R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Research PhD student Student 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:17:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Easy to learn language, constantly evolving (for the better) and new packages "When you're used to the ""dplyr"" way of managing data, sometimes it's hard to understand and follow tutorials written in other ways (for example, using ""data.table"")" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1973 male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Guadeloupe Research Research scientist Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:17:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Simulation 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually With time it has a lot more resources and versatility R-studio sometimes crashes. Updated versions create incompatibilities General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Matlab, R, SPSS Matlab 1972 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Senior Operations Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T12:17:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, AI, EDA, pattern recognition in datasets 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually flexible + free to use It's not possible to compile R scripts into self-contained EXEs (in Linux) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Matlab, R, Visual Basic, AWK Visual Basic NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:18:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Medicine, web site development, package development 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS, jamovi Yes Usually easy to find answers, the community is helpful I think I cannot use functions depending on java, fortran, C. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Basic 1980 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Turkey Health Care and Medicine pathologist Medical professional 4 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T12:20:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Flexible Some packages using a really different method from SAS and producing different results General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 7 I expect it to increase R, SAS SPSS 1993 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Student 1 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:20:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The readability and reproducibility that comes from relatively consistent syntax across the tidyverse packages Compared to python, R has somewhat more issues with compiling different packages on different linux distributions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Server Pro 2 8 I expect it to stay the same Bash R 1986 Male White MD, PhD United States of America Health Care and Medicine Physician scientist Researcher 20 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T12:21:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually Various packages NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS C/C++ 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Turkey Research Senior Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:23:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Markdown-Latex, shell No Usually Data frames as main object High memory usage General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, ?manual General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Confidential data directly with the shareholder I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, write the doctoral thesis I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month custom application for clients without any IT/bioinformatics knowledge I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Conda 1 1 I plan to stop using it R, PERL!!!!! and where is shell (awk-sed)? R 1990 MALE!!! (I'm European, we are not going crazy for gender) White, Alpine PhD + Master Sergeant School Switzerland Research+Military Bioinformatician (Job1), Project Assistant (Job2), Master Sgt (Duty) Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T12:23:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The reproducibility of my work Learning curve and transferring projects to non-R users General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Chief Data Officer Administration 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:24:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I participated in a pre-doctoral fellowship. Asked for guidance on what to learn on independent study to my PI and she suggested R. Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Open source, free resources online Some documentation does not provide enough details or examples on how to use General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 9 I expect it to increase R C# 1993 Female Hispanic/Latinx One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Research Scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely NA NA English 2020-12-11T12:24:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Iteration, automatization of easy task it is hard to remember everythings that i have learned. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, HTML file share by email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1993 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Research PhD student Student 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:25:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding time to practice enough Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Gets a lot done with very little coding effort. ? General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SQL, C/AL, Pascal BASIC, but not Visual ;-) 1964 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Construction Senior developer Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T12:26:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The tidyverse, the ability to build packages, and the RStudio IDE Lack of support for 508 compliance in R Markdown. This is probably the biggest thing keeping the NPS from going all in on R. Also, unrelatedly, setting custom fonts in ggplot is the bane of my existence. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Wrangling GIS data Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R C/C++ 1991 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:28:07Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Once you know the basics it's pretty straightforward Occasionally when using maps it crashes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating html documents for my uni course I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Not Employed Student Student 50 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:28:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Survival Analysis, Cohort Identification 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Enables better Shiny apps! Easy dataframe manipulation with tidy tools No type safety (as a Java programmer) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shiny Server Pro I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Survival Analysis I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning, Medicine Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Javascript, R Javascript 1969 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Sr. Application Developer Software developer 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T12:29:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), STATA No Usually Powerful Inconsistencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R, SAS, STATA, fortran Old basic and fortran (1970s) 1951 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Retired, emeritus prof Statistician 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:29:35Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 3 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, MS-Access Yes Usually Powerful data manipulation - diverse graphics Syntax: few 'standards', documentation: standard form, but incomprehensible Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SAS, Visual Basic PL/1 and FORTRAN !! 1956 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Aquatic Biologist Data scientist or analyst 10 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:29:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Financial analysis 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Vignettes, internal research notes I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing, Application / CLI development Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R Matlab NA NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral Fellow Researcher 5 Neutral R Finance conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T12:30:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested NA More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Using the RStudio IDE and packages Issues with system dependencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS R 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T12:31:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral associate Researcher 10 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T12:32:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Visual Basic NA Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Analyst Researcher 200 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:33:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job Before I used Matlab but my new company did not want to buy it so I switched to r Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Reproducibility, automatisation and visualization Always having to convince that open source is not a backdoor for hackers and malware General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1987 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Insurance Quantitative risk manager Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:33:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Community, Tidyverse philosophy Switching to column wise thinking. Pasting data from CSV etc doesn't pick up data types as well as other software Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Tableau Visual Basic 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Environmental Data Specialist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:33:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally "There are a lot of things, first, almost everything is well documented including all the packages in CRAN and there are a lot of books, so I almost never feel lost (this usually happens to me in other languages); and some functions are even backed up by scientific publications, this makes citation easier when writing a paper. Also, I love all the tools for reproducibility. Finally, I love the community and also the fact that is a very popular language in research and medicine (my fields)." "Sometimes I feel a little confused when I try to learn some machine learning or artificial intelligence in R, because there are a lot of different packages with different properties and I don't know where to start or what packages to use. But I am just starting to learn those topics, so maybe packages like tidymodels have what I am searching for." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Conda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 2000 male Hispanic/Latinx Some college or university, no college degree Peru Health Care and Medicine NA Student 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:33:43Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Mostly, the community itself. Usually, if I'm having an issue, someone else has already had it and there's a solution online. Further, the documentation is amazing almost everywhere making the language super accessible. "NA" Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS R 1993 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Quantitative Scientist Researcher 1000 Yes, definitely R Medicine conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:35:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Easy, user oriented Syntax when using Tidyverse style programming plus the awesome community Some packages are poorly documented General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating management summaries as HTML Reports I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SQL Excel 1992 Male White Trade/technical/vocational training, no degree awarded Germany Financial Services and Activities Risk Analyst Financial professional 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:36:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Occasionally How versatile it is, you can do many things with R including interfacing with other programming languages. Installing system dependencies and dealing with errors related to that for compiling packages when binaries are not available General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, Bioconductor support website Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Bioconductor release messages. Conferences. Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Slack I expect it to stay the same Three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Writing R package vignettes I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Bash Perl 1987 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Investigator Researcher 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T12:36:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Readability, especially with tidy verse and rmd Single thread, the fact that RStudio IDE is a misnomer (and can be used for other languages), bad blood / reputation with python Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Tableau 3 9 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, Tableau Java 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Data Science Lead Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:36:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server No Occasionally Environment management and package handling R switching data types when I don't want it to or choosing poor data types for the data General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics, Medicine Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Visual Studio Code 1 3 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R Java NA female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services NA Software developer 10 No, not really RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T12:37:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1996 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested "Switching from procedural programming to a model appropriate for ""Programming with Data""" More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis NA 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Rarely "The focus on ""Programming with Data""" NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, CRANberries Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, General scripting, data access R 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R Basic older than Visual Basic 1966 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies Principal Software Engineer Software developer 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Finance conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T12:37:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Code simplicity (plot for instance) Non standardization and intuitiveness of names, documentation Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 2 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Insurance Natural catastrophes modeler Statistician 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:37:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R is fairly intuitive and worked great for all my projects. "I'm afraid of updates that ruin package compatibility (especially ones that say ""this package is not built under the current version of R""), confusing documentation, and little knowledge of the underlying infrastructure to R's data structures (EX: I didn't realize I should be preallocating space in my vectors before adding things to them in loops--though yes, I know R isn't meant to be loop-heavy)." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Java, R, SPSS R 1999 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Research Intern Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T12:37:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually RStudio Choosing packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R packages built for search such as the sos package Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, pyCharm CE 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Go, Python, R, Visual Basic, Stata Excel 1957 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Not Employed NA Researcher NA Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:38:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually The ease of use How easy it is to make something work, except when it doesn't because of some edge case and R makes an assumption about the data General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, R, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1989 Male South Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Manufacturing Data Architect Software developer 2 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:39:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1986 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Austria Research student Student 4 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T12:39:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Because I want to move from s-plus Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The possibility to make advanced statists and on the top of that produce very nice automatic reports Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R C/C++ 1974 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Portugal Consulting Senior biostatistician Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:41:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually RMarkdown Package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, PowerPoint, Word I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Text processing, Web scraping Conda, R 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R, SAS, Tableau Visual Basic 1985 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T12:41:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Freedom Memory limits General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 10 I expect it to increase R Basic 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Estonia Information Technologies CEO Administration 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2020-12-11T12:42:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau No Usually I like that it's a language built for managing statistical problems. It feels very natural coming from a statistical background. Also the community Unsure, I wish I could have different pane setups saved for various tasks, like reporting vs shiny but that's more Rstudio Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, SAS, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1995 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:42:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work It was hard to find best software engineering practices. Moreover, different implementations of object oriented programming made it confusing to someone with a C# background Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Web apps 4 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing, Automation, Web apps Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Matlab, Python, R, C# C 1997 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Information Technologies NA Software developer 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T12:43:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Occasionally Reproducibility. Debugging. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, The documentation. Reference books. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, twitter I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Improving reproducibility by combining code and natural language, even if I never render it. I make both PDF and HTML reports as well, but have never used pagedown. I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning R 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Fortran BASIC. Your survey is not set up for old geeks! 1970 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research Ecologist Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:44:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro No Occasionally easy to use Hard to learn best practices General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month app development Anaconda, Conda 4 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R C/C++ NA NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Engineer Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2020-12-11T12:45:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually flexibility and breadth of application exact syntax can be finicky sometimes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week html docs for teaching I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R basic 1967 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Education faculty Educator 1 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:46:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually How helpful the community is Not widely adopted at my company General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS R 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Nonprofit Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T12:46:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Having to distinguish between proper base R and marketing materials regarding the “tidyverse”. Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely It’s a good language for quick prototyping and has lots of very useful packages in a wide array of fields (of course, especially for statistical modeling and data visualization). Maybe subtle data types questions one may face in comparison with more common CS “conventions” (eg, “numeric”). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Let’s not forget the built-in “help”! 🙂 General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Financial analysis Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Javascript, Python, R R NA NA NA Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Financial Services and Activities NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:46:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Sql server R services Yes Occasionally Easy to go from development to production with code package development General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Plumber api I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda 2 6 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, R, Sql Java NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Professional and Business Services NA Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup R-bloggers English 2020-12-11T12:47:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Community. It losing popularity General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Survey analysis, Financial analysis JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 10 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R Matlab NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Information Technologies NA Software developer NA Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T12:47:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 From a friend Needed it to write a journal article Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Efficiency It doesn't understand what I want it to do! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Journal articles I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, R FORTRAN, come on! 1967 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Engineering 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T12:48:18Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1983 man White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Italy Health Care and Medicine Medical Doctor, Specialist Medical professional 1 Yes, definitely R Medicine conference Facebook English 2020-12-11T12:49:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Databricks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The ease at which it's possible to do common cleaning/munging tasks Perception that it's not as suitable for production-level work (models) as Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, Tableau, SQL SPSS 1980 Male Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T12:50:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Elegance Never sure which is the right package to do a task when there are so many General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel Basic 1972 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research Research Fellow Researcher 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:50:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 Was using S since 1993 I wanted to do statistical analyses Going away from S-plus environment solely to R cpnsole More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, WinEdt No Rarely Flexibility and power Hard to say General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating custom PDF documents using LaTeX I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Teaching/demonstrating statistical concepts I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic, FORTRAN, Pascal, Basic FORTRAN 1953 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Slovenia Research Senior researcher Statistician 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T12:51:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R I am just getting started learning programming 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Student 50 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T12:52:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Decent and growing collection of well designed packages Fragmented learning resources General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, RWeekly Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating word documents for internal dissemination in my organisation, sometimes I use Rmarkdown just as a well commented R script I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to increase R R 1990 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Statistician Statistician 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T12:53:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually So many things. Visualization options, the huge package repositories, Shiny apps, and how easy it is to do statistical analysis. Documentation is very poor for many packages. Sometimes functionality/syntax is significantly changed between package versions (i.e. Seurat 2 vs 3) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, local shiny server I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Conda, bash 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, bash, html mathematica 1983 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T12:58:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The tidyverse is so much nicer to use than pandas I really like the way list comprehensions and dictionaries work in Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1992 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Not Employed NA Student NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T12:59:19Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Pascal 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:01:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Occasionally The community The syntax Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Java, Javascript, Ruby Visual Basic 1991 Male Half white half black Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Italy Information Technologies Full stack developer Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:01:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, TSQL TSQL NA NA NA NA NA Arts and Entertainment NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T13:02:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) All of the above. Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Mac and Windows (mac for work) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse is amazing. I love ggplot, connecting it to ggplotly, knitting a web dashboard that's fully interactive with crosstalk libraries. I wish it could be more like python sometimes, so that it could be more widely adopted. But I love rstudios new python + r combined features. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Back end servers stuff Anaconda, R 4 7 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R Java 1991 M Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Information Technologies Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:03:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Stata Yes Usually Distributed package system, which allows fast adoption of ideas. Also, not domain specific usage (unlike other stats software). Tidyverse vs base R logic, competing eco systems General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Stata Stata 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Research associate Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:04:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Simulations 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Interactive workflow Still get confused by base R lists and vectors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Private shared git repositories I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Writing up analysis, examples, reports, etc. I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Web applications, scripting Jupyter Notebooks, Emacs, pyenv, pipenv, pytest 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Julia, Python, R, Ruby Fortran 1957 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Information Technologies NA Software developer 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:04:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Combination of on the job, myself, book, and online course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Functionality and online support. Compared to phyton the community is so welcoming and active. Feel more empathy to the community. The people there are just all so human and diverse. Some things that are straight forward one liner in python are to complex in R. Like using pandas.resample General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code 2 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1993 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Utilities Data consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:04:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually straight forward syntax, tidyverse packages are so good for data manipulation. R's visualization tools are second to none. R shiny provided me with a framework for deploying R into production for non-R end users. "Hard to get colleagues to buy in that R is a ""real/serious"" language. Folks I work with don't know R and thus are hesitant to allow me to build production tools based on it." Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, sharing R results with non-R users I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Systems Engineer Software developer 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:05:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually First, it meets my professional needs. Second, I enjoy it! Third, I can go from data to dissemination (and everything in between and beyond). There is always more to learn. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1980 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Research Associate Professor Researcher 1 No, not really RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T13:06:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Databricks Yes Usually It is very intuitive and there is wide variety of libraries NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau, Scala R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Professional and Business Services Stageur Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:07:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually ggplot2 "The differences in both semantics and syntax that exist between different functions within dplyr and purrr. For example, some simple dplyr functions simply need you to call a variables unquoted yet other times you need to call them using the .data pronoun (.data[[""x""]]). Other times, functions will work nicely in a mutate, but when you want to use any of the purrr functions, you need to troubleshoot whether you have to call it formulaically (via ~) or whether you want to call it as an anonymous function. Maybe there is a pattern to this, but I still struggle when switching." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Building simple html reports and PDF reports I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1994 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research PhD Candidate Student 5 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:07:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 On the job I was an Splus user Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of prototyping and access to script for repeating analysis Impenetrable syntax Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel FORTRAN 1950 Male New Zealand european Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Research Professor Statistician 15 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:07:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, AWS EMR No Usually Rstudio and CRAN That it’s still not considered ”production ready” by ”real” developers. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 5 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, Ruby Java 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Information Technologies Data Science Lead Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T13:10:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There are quite a lot of packages that makes the work easier. It is statistics based. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Social Media I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, PyCharm 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau C# 1997 Male Black/African One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Nigeria Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:10:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, Fortran Fortran 1957 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:11:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually A complete end to end solution for data analysis, no matter what the problem, and a proud Kiwi innovation. Lack of learning opportunities, if you don't come from a stats major background. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, R, Haskell Visual Basic 1961 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) New Zealand Health Care and Medicine Principal Medical Information Officer Medical professional 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:12:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, Visual Basic Basic 1985 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Epidemiologist Software developer 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:12:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 JupyterHub, RStudio Server No Usually Tidy verse and pipes The old syntax Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub 3 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Visual Basic 1984 M Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) South Africa Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientisy Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T13:13:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Deputy Director Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:13:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Overcoming syntax of different packages (tidyverse did not exist back then) Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Tableau Yes Usually tidyverse, Rstudio products and everything the open source community is doing NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Tableau 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Information Technologies Senior Business Intelligence Analyst Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-11T13:15:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility Efficiency in ML General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1972 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Manufacturing CDO Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T13:16:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually Everything. R behaving in an unexpected manner. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Written communication and/or power point presentations I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating explanations of data analytic thought processes I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1982 male Black/African, White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) social scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:17:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1995 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually exhaustivity People telling me I should use Python ;-) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Go, Julia, Python, R, Tableau Visual Basic 1970 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Professor Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:19:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Not only its functionality, but also the values and generosity of the community and its leaders NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R SPSS 1988 Cisgender man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Assistant professor Researcher NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:20:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work converting from loops to vectorized functions More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually RStudio IDE is the best IDE I've ever used (admitedly, I haven't use any other nearly as much as I've use RStudio). I can very quickly munge my data and look at summary results. I can also easily expand that code to do something more, also fairly quickly. dealing with package versions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, team meetings specifically for sharing R 'stuff' I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, creating html pages for sharing results of my work, creating PDF reports (not using pagedown) I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:22:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, PowerBI, Stata Yes Usually Reproducible research Training new users; stack overflow and internet help is full conflicting advice. I spend a lot of time reviewing code that is a convoluted mess of different packages and have to spend a lot of time teaching people how to write decent code. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Stata R 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Senior Data Scientist Researcher 1 Neutral RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T13:22:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually "Functionality and straight forward Syntax. Community and Free Open Resources" NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Trade (Retail or Wholesale) NA Data scientist or analyst 20 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:22:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 4 9 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse and Rstudio IDE and Connect for deployment. Syntax, especially with Shiny. Not a general purpose programming language like python (at least for mortals). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive software application. I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Medicine Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, Swift C/C++ 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Physician Medical professional 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T13:23:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually IDE (Rstudio) & R Packages - tidyverse, tydemodels ,ggplot2, pins, etc... build r packages Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com, Power BI I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R Excel 1965 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Argentina Information Technologies Sales Excellence Manager Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:25:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Lack of adequate community support. Atleast not as much as Python Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Ease of usage Speed of compilation when compared to Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Javascript, PHP, Python, R C/C++ 1998 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Not Employed NA Student 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:25:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Community Factors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Python 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:26:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally Rstudio is the best IDE having to figure out and reinstall packages every time I go to another computing resource General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1987 male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Senior HPC admin Administration 3 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T13:26:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1985 NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:27:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The simplicity and efficiency of tidyverse. Having to move from base r to tidyverse. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Create tutorials for classes. I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Stata Excel 1985 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Colombia Research Professor of research Educator 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:27:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I was personally interested none More than once a day windows and linux Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, GIS 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Geany No Never Package management. GIS capability. Building own packages. Other people think Python is better. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS BASIC 1850 male NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Research NA Researcher 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:31:05Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually versatility in working with data adapting more general R lessons to suit specific needs of my R programming interests is difficult without a more advanced understanding of R and statistics in general General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1996 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Cartographic Technician Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:32:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested NA More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS R NA Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Statistician 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:32:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Managing packages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 3 6 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), SPSS Yes Occasionally Free Packages with R versions incompatibility General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, SPSS 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Greece Professional and Business Services Project Manager Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T13:33:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Mapping 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually You can always find a way to do something even if that something is extremely specific. It is very hard to learn and sometimes error messages are not clear. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Stata SPSS 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Graduate Teaching Assistant Researcher 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:34:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server Pro, SAS Yes Usually Documentation and examples. Active community Shiny stuff/Add-ins crash on me a lot when developing applications Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), We have RStudio Serve Pro - website from blogdown and shiny apps and guidance docs from bookdown I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS R 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Statisical Programmer Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:35:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually It's a flexible, fun, and functional language, but really it's the insanely vibrant community and all the free (FREE!) and open-source books, packages, and cutting-edge how-tos. R's community provides so much at so many levels that I don't just feel like I'm standing on the shoulders of giants; I feel like I've been invited to a party full of giants all working to see who can lift each other up the highest. I actually have no R-specific pain points I can think of. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Deploying predictive models trained offline I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R GW-BASIC 1983 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Data Scientist Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:35:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 NA Yes Usually The tidyverse is intuitive and easy to read A lot of my coworkers still use base R Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 4 I expect it to increase NA Excel 1993 Female Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:35:22Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 3 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1995 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:35:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses How to bring R into production More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually It brings so many interesting packages from different scientifical backgrounds and expertises into reach. It gives the feeling being able to do anything I want. Er... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Sql Visual Basic 1975 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Professional and Business Services Data scientist Statistician 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T13:36:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, As a language for implementing new statistical models 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Free open source language. Not easy to find erros with the R error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Help function General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), The R Journal Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, RMarkdown reports, to my students. I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Julia, R, SAS BASIC 1970 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Assistant Professor Statistician 20 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T13:36:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Data viz in ggplot Doesn’t always agree with Mac OS or other devices (specifically, fonts often have trouble on different graphics devices) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Tableau R 1993 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research Phd student Researcher 14 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:37:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually The R community! There is so much shared knowledge out there. Interpreting confusing error messages. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating and exporting clean data analysis summaries to share with clients I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel 1991 Female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Professional and Business Services Research Associate Researcher 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:38:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Databricks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually The community The toxic old-school community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Databricks, R, RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Clinical Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T13:40:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Conda 3 5 I expect it to increase R R 1989 female White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine PhD student Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T13:41:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually The syntax. The code is elegant. It is a perfect tool for statistics and data analysis. When packages do not install. Dependency issues. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1982 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Ireland Utilities Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T13:41:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Community Factors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Python 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:41:56Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 200 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning the RStudio development environment I don't use R any more Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Financial analysis 2 3 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Never Nothing. I'm an expert with Excel, yet the R learning curve is very steep. I've not yet grasped how to use R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Visual Basic, SQL FORTRAN 1954 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Insurance Actuary Consultant or Advisor 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:42:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), UNIX shell Yes Usually the integration of everything in RStudio in-memory data storage; it seems not suited for general-purpose programming General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, links to cloud storage e.g. OneDrive I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, UNIX shell/Bash/Zsh Excel 1990 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research PhD candidate Student 3 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T13:47:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The variety of packages and procedures available Installing all those packages and libraries and conflicts. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Fortran 1974 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Associate Professor Educator 20 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T13:47:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 8 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro No Usually Diverse packages for many applications. "R documentation is very poor and often difficult to interpret. Most recommendations are to ""read the docs!"" but the docs are often written by someone who knows how to use the tool and not for someone trying to learn the tool." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R, Visual Basic TI-BASIC 1970 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Biotechnology Principal Invistigator Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T13:50:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Learning best practice. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Intuitive, easy to write, read and explain It can be slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating dynamic reports, analysis, or model exploration I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Ado (STATA) 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Financial Services and Activities Senior Associate Consultant or Advisor 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T13:50:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Julia No Occasionally It's free and very flexible Sharing programs for re-use, e.g. as stand-alone teaching tools can be difficult General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), graphics and presentations delivered in person or via email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Julia, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic SPSS 1988 make White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America non-profit/human services director of evaluation & analytics Administration 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T13:53:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Occasionally NA Core functions are spread over too many packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 6 I expect it to decrease R, SPSS QBASIC 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden NA Statistical consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T13:55:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually up to date statistical methods via novel packages little to no interface to SAS General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 5 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS Excel 1985 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research data scientist Statistician 5 No, not really Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T13:57:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job It was part of a course I took Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau No Occasionally Its classical approach to language syntax. For loops are difficult to learn and execute. Also, dealing with large amounts of data is almost an impossible task. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 7 I expect it to increase R R 1982 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Puerto Rico Insurance Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 15 Neutral NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T13:58:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Occasionally RStudio no dictionary type General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R SAS 1992 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 300 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T13:59:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Business friendly language with amazing packages like tidyverse , visualization and shiny Debugging . When things don't work . It can be very hard General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month When there is a python library available and no r equivalent Conda, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, Tableau Java 1974 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Vp data science Consultant or Advisor 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:01:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Pascal 1969 man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Financial Services and Activities data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T14:02:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Youtube Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R, Rust R 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Japan Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T14:02:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 JupyterHub, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Pro No Occasionally Quick and loads of advice out there Installing packages behind corporate firewall General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing JupyterHub, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1974 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Insurance Principal Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 35 Neutral RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T14:02:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), SAS No Occasionally Ease of implementing new procedures data handling is still not robust enough for my uses General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, SAS, SPSS C/C++ 1984 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Psychometrician psychometrician 1 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T14:03:07Z None Through an online course or courses (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) R was part of a course I took Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis Microsoft Excel Just getting started NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None I am just getting started learning programming 1974 Male Black/African One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Nigeria Professional and Business Services Training Manager Educator 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T14:04:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually pipe, visualisation no native ipad support General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA pycharm 3 7 I expect it to decrease R C/C++ 1984 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Transportation NA Management 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:06:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase R C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T14:07:43Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Never interface with other languages dominance of tidyverse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Go, Julia, R, SPSS pascal more than 3 decades ago 1980 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Senior Lecturer in Public Health Informatics and Data Science Researcher 0 Neutral NA NA English 2020-12-11T14:08:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It's focus specifically on data, statistical analysis, and modeling. Having to justify using R instead of Python to those from other disciplines who don't know about R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SAS, SPSS C/C++ 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor of Marketing Educator 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:10:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Managing packages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually tidyverse, non-standard evaluation, %>% unclear error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Principal Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T14:11:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Managing packages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually It gives me exactly what am looking for The issues with installing packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA None yet I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month None yet I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS C/C++ 1997 Male Black/African Some college or university, no college degree Rwanda Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T14:11:19Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1994 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Construction Data Developer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:12:56Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities finding projects ti learn applied R Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's power and ease to use Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R I am just getting started learning programming 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) New Zealand Not Employed NA Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:13:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 4 7 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually ecosystem OOP system General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, website backend Anaconda, Conda 5 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ NA NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely UseR conference, R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T14:13:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community R vs Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1993 Woman Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:14:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually documentation, user-friendly API default single threading General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Tableau, Visual Basic Excel 1986 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T14:14:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterHub, Matlab, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Tidyverse purrr map functions When I need to work with XML files General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating html documentation of my research I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Front end for high performance compute jobs I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Image analysis Conda, JupyterHub 3 7 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic Basic 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Researcher 20 Yes, somewhat R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:14:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Mathematical Modeling, Full Stack Applications 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Handling data, object oriented programming, full stack developing Nothing. Absolutely nothing. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Front-end of Full Stack Applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Information Technologies CEO Software developer 3 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T14:14:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Stata No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase NA Java 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Internal Consultant Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T14:15:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Submitting homework for class I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R Python NA NA NA Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America NA NA Student NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:15:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, environmental science 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, R R 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education PhD Candidate Student 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:16:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community for troubleshooting Vague error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, R Excel 1996 Female Black/African One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Grenada Natural Resources and Mining NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T14:18:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work None. More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Pkg development 5 7 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Vim No Never NA The church of the tidyverse. RStudio's hostility against foss developers. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, cranberries Personal blog or web site owned by you, CRAN I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Beamer slides I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing JupyterLab 3.0, Vim 5 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, R C/C++ NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA NA NA NA NA Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:18:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Usually Syntax Lack of virtual environments Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, to create relplication sheets I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Text processing, Experiment programming, simulation Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Matlab, Python, R qbasic 1987 NA Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Postdoc Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:21:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Self-Employed Consultant Teaching R Across Sectors CEO Consultant or Advisor 0 NA RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T14:22:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Creativity error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic SAS 1995 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Insurance actuary Statistician 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:22:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, SPSS, Git Yes Usually Packages hard to use in production General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code, Git 5 10 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R, SPSS R 1991 man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Project Manager Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T14:22:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SAS Excel 1993 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:23:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server Yes Occasionally great packages and support NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau BASIC 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Utilities Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T14:23:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Occasionally -- less than once a month raspberry pi xx 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1980 spider Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Research NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:24:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1984 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Non-governmental organisation Senior data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:25:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), PyCharm with the R plugin No Usually Expressive syntax for statistical models, having understood data.table the sometimes arcane rules when something is executed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, markdown -> html, docx, pptx I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing, Medicine Anaconda, Conda, PyCharm 5 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS Perl 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine Researcher Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T14:25:46Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 1 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS NA Occasionally NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) school work I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA NA SPSS 2000 female Prefer not to answer High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Netherlands Research student Student NA No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T14:26:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse I can never understand objects w many things in them, and list-columns still confuse me General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Slack I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation NA 2 1 I expect it to increase R, SQL Matlab 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Accommodation and Food Services Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T14:26:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Its diversity and completeness getting started is hard (mostly for students who do not see its capabilities in the long run) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, teaching I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Belgium Research PhD student and teaching assistant in statistics Researcher 3 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T14:26:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took "Jumping from ""begginer"" to ""advanced""" Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Tidyverse, dplyr, ggplot, shiny, rmarkdown <3 Not enough guidance on how to deploy R and shiny on clouds like Azure, GCP, AWS General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SQL Java 1994 Female Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Peru Professional and Business Services Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 100 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T14:27:40Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SPSS Yes Occasionally User friendly, free of cost, fast Data arrangements General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript SPSS 1988 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) China Research Ph.D scholar Researcher 6 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:28:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually The community of other people who use it! And the intuitive way that functions are structured, documented, etc. I still have a hard time making things really clean. I find I can get a lot done in R but my code is just kind of generally heinous and I don't know how to make it better! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building tools for management I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Visual Studio Code 1 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1985 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Fisheries Biologist Researcher 30 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T14:28:22Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase """five""" I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1990 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research PhD student Student 4 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T14:30:56Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Occasionally The clear syntax The learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same SPSS Excel 1992 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA Student 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:31:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 6 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Its flexibility How it handles missing values General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data scraping, geographic modeling Anaconda, ArcGIS 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Stata Excel 1986 Female Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Assistant Professor Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:31:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Simplicity, RStudio IDE, contains everything to analyse data Smaller inconsistencies, not a full programming language like Python Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Server 1 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic Turbo Pascal 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Insurance Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T14:32:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to accomplish tasks with little code. Always interested in more packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R Visual Basic NA NA NA NA NA Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Geographer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:34:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau No Usually It is simply. Figure things out when I using PDF outputs. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I rarely do that. Mosty by e-mail. But it will change next year. I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Clinical trials Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau Pascal 1994 Male Hispanic/Latinx, Common, is it Latin a ethnicity? Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Research NA Researcher NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:34:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora NA NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Databricks 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-11T14:37:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Geographic analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Wrangling with dplyr, visualisation with ggplot2, manipulating shapefiles with sf and mapview Opening files, finding the root folder General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Fortran 1976 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Noise plan manager Administration 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:37:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, R Markdown reports 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually Nice user interface and resources from CRAN and Bioconductor. Tidyverse. RStudio is also my favorite IDE. Also interoperability with C++ and Python. The culture of open source, good documentation, and reproducibility. I also like RStudio Cloud, R Markdown related packages, and the new visual editor in RStudio 1.4 though the editor is sometimes not very responsive. R is often treated as second class citizen by computer science professionals. The BLAS that comes with R is not optimized though it's easy to change it and some existing R packages are not very efficient or well written, perhaps because the authors don't have in depth training in computer science. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Image processing Anaconda, PyCharm 4 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1995 Female Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research PhD candidate Researcher NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:38:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SAS, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau, PowerBI Yes Usually DPLYR Object oriented operations General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, R, SAS, Tableau 5 8 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, SAS Python 1992 Male Black/African, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Data analytics manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T14:41:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis, spatial analysis, web scraping, dashboard, shiny apps, blog 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, QGIS, Brackets, notepad++ Yes Occasionally open source, community, versatility, vectorization, factors, functional single threaded/core, factors, inconsistencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, search every now and then for a few key words of interest (like shiny, spatial) in CRAN order by date Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, shiny server I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, xaringan!!!! the best! I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, monitoring machine learning productions, user login access and usage analytics I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code, command line 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic, haskell BASIC (Commodore and ZX Spectrum) 1963 male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United Kingdom Professional and Business Services R/Shiny developer, Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T14:42:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually How easy it is to do reproducible analysis and reports That not everyone uses it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Financial analysis NA 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Ruby Excel 1986 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx NA Brazil Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Economist Financial professional 2 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T14:42:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It's a very flexible and capable programming language It's basic differences with other programming languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Solving equations Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau R 1991 Male Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Argentina Marketing and Data Consulting Marketing Science Partner Consultant or Advisor 20 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T14:45:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually The tidyverse NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Business reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Power BI, Power Query Excel 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Data Insights and Growth Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T14:45:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Dashboards 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely Data.table Nested crazy structured General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Java, Matlab, R Turbo Pascal 1987 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Insurance Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T14:48:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 3 6 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Never New Gui software on R I need more packages and function with sample weighting for social survey. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same SPSS SPSS 1973 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ukraine Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Head of research department Researcher 1 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Facebook English 2020-12-11T14:51:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually Personally I find it easy to use, powerful and it will work on my organization’s network. The variety of documentation and error messages that happens due to the open source nature of the R environment. But, this openness is also critical in keeping R relevant. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Military Data Scientists Data scientist or analyst 25 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T14:52:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the good libraries like the tidyverse The error message and the documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase PHP, R, Visual Basic Pascal 1968 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Vice President Management 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T14:52:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually ease na General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase """five""" Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, PC 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1946 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Data Farmer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T14:53:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Its capable of doing so much I still find it difficult to write something first time. And then debugging is a pain. Not being able to interrupt the interpreter easily is often a problem, requiring a restart to resolve. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda 2 7 I expect it to increase R basic NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:53:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Survey analysis 3 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally That it is free and can be used in a variety of ways. Much of the coding language is not intuitive. Additionally, packages may vary significantly. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Java 1987 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Education Graduate Student Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:53:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work None Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Environment simplicity, widely tested packages built from scientific community A lot of people prefer python and don’t support R the same way General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, R C/C++ 1992 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Finland Financial Services and Activities Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T14:54:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Periscope/Sisense Yes Usually It's tailored to the work I do (DS), and there's a package for nearly everything! Dealing with people who use other languages and feel superior about it (cue giant eye rolls) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, HTML documents that we share via RStudio Connect I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1987 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Mobile Gaming Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 6 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:56:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It allows you to do a lot of things without really being an R expert. Dealing with error messages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Albania Construction Geotechnical engineer Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:56:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 YouTube David Langer It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Report Automation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SQL server No Usually Tidyverse with pipe Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Reports with charts and tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Microsoft Excel, SQL server 1 4 I plan to stop using it Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1987 Male Asian, Indian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Energy Business Analytics Advisor Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:56:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The tidyverse The native encoding problem in Windows. Not acepting UTF8 makes life harder working in portuguese using .Rmd General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau Python 1995 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Military PhD Student Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T14:59:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was using Stata and wanted something open source and more professional. Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Its graphics packages, reproducible workflow and supportive community. I feel it changes so fast it is difficult to keep up. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS R 1978 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education NA Educator 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:01:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning NA 3 5 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R, SAS SAS NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T15:01:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Visual Basic 1977 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-11T15:03:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Powerful Steep learning curve, in hindsight if I had been more aware of the Tidyverse when learning things would have been much easier General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Medicine Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 8 I plan to stop using it Python, R Python 1995 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Junior Doctor (medical) Medical professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:03:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Automatization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Visual Studio Code Yes Rarely Language is designed to interact with data growing Tidyverse vs the-others mentality General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, R, Visual Basic, Perl, Bash, SQL Pascal 1981 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Lithuania Telecom Senior Design and Planning Specialist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:03:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Open source Occasionally buggy, sometimes data manipulation requires a few lines of code whereas in other softwares it would be easier to do. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-11T15:03:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was preferable for my work (not required, but it was preferable to using stata and/or Matlab) learning to debug effectively More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Web scraping 5 10 Databricks, EMACS ESS mode, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Colab No Occasionally Empowerment, flexibility, comfort, speed (processing & development), REPL other ppl trying to make it a strongly typed language General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, XPath Java 1989 Male Prefer not to define Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Big Tech Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:03:58Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually NA NA NA Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data, full web app I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, bash BASIC 1983 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Education senior director Management 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:05:01Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online articles, websites, and books. I want to explore transitioning to R in the courses I teach on statistics and data visualization. Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally The opportunities to build data visualizations and the possibilities with RMardown. Honestly, the data prep in R isn't as intuitive or easy as it is in programs like Stata. I'm still climbing the hill there. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com "Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Sometimes I'll run across an article titled ""20 best packages in R"" or the like. But mostly R-bloggers." "I've generated a bookdown ""book"" that I develop over time." I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Stata SAS 1974 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor of Sociology Educator 2 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T15:05:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R Python 1972 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Research computer specialist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:07:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is It is very clean language. "I think expectations that ""R"" is coming from Statistics or written by statistician's are scared people to use more. I'm planing to infect my college stats students to learn basic of R-Programming. It is hard but appear right way to go." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Have few R Books R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Visualization, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Matlab 4 9 I expect it to increase Java, Javascript, Python, Tableau COBOL NA Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies College Stats mentor Educator NA NA NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T15:07:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Colleagues also use R, everyone speaking a common language So many packages and bells and whistles, can't keep track of them all, sometimes feels like they are reinventing the wheel and overcomplicating things. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Teaching I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R Excel 1988 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant professor Researcher 20 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T15:08:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Html 1990 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Research Postdoc Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:08:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community So many ways to do same thing. Hard to get started General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Journal I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, STATA Excel 1999 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Doctor Medical professional 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:08:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Documentation of packages Unknown errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same R SAS 1990 Male Pakistani Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Pakistan Research NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T15:09:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse Lstm, rnn, keras General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Fortran 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Turkey Renewable Energy (Wind and Solar) Power Generation Planning and Energy Trading Supervisor Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T15:10:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1990 NA White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Italy Health Care and Medicine MD Medical professional 3 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T15:11:15Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Flexibility Steep learning curve. No iPad app Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SPSS SPSS 1968 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Education Senior lecturer Educator 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:11:40Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization, Genomics 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Dealing with big data Memory reliance General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease None I am just getting started learning programming 1987 Male Arab Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Saudi Arabia Education Teaching assistant Educator 1 Yes, somewhat R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:12:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SAS Pascal 1979 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Economist Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T15:13:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 8 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually active development, cutting edge statistical methodology even medium-term reproducibility is questionnable General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Pascal 1973 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Professor of Biostatistics Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T15:16:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work NSE More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, reporting 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, docker Yes Usually human understandable coding `=` used in assignment General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, report using bookdown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing, learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, PyCharm 4 7 I expect it to increase Matlab, R C/C++ 1981 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Health Care and Medicine fellow researcher Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T15:16:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility Text only commands, frustrating error messages, General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, Stata BASIC 1971 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional 10 Neutral R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:17:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, GIS Mapping and Report production via Markdown 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually The dopamine hit. Other people not getting how good it is. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 3 4 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R, Ruby BASIC 1964 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Ireland Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Project Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:17:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Ecosystem of packages in the tidyverse and the community and development continually taking place particularly with shiny and plumber and RStudio Some fields do not seems to respect R as much as, say, Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, SQL Excel 1985 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Data Strategist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T15:17:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Community not much General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1984 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Fisheries Research Biologist Management 20 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:18:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Network analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Repeatability and error tracking Memory usage General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Web scraping Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 2 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Visual Basic 1968 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) South Africa Professional and Business Services Consultant Management 0 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:20:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1986 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Mexico Research Marine biologist Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:21:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Getting RSudio's content to top of my google search. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Very limited time is needed between my ideas and my code. I also really value RS documentation (help, books, blog posts) "Lack of acceptance as a ""production"" language. But I am working on it ;)" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, SAS C/C++ 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T15:24:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Usually Interactive development that can be packaged Two-language problem (e.g. moving to C/C++ for performance) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Julia, R BASIC 1986 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate Research Assistant Researcher 30 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T15:24:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 NA I wanted to do statistical analyses there wasn't much support 10 years ago Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Databricks, Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1989 woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Accommodation and Food Services Staff Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T15:25:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course SPSS makes ugly stacked bar charts Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It's open source, offers a lot of novel options It can be frustrating to use - not a trained quant researcher primarily General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Stackoverflow Email, Shinyapps.io, Twitter I expect it to stay the same Three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month scraping Anaconda, spyder IDE 2 7 I expect it to decrease R Turing lol 1994 non-binary White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research Research Coordinator Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:25:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Expressiveness, ease of data exploration and visualization Performance: I love using R but it is starting to fall behind relative to Python for scientific computing. There is no R equivalent to Numba, which represents an incredibly easy method for a Python user to accelerate functions with often almost no changes required to the code. Numba can be parallelised easily or can run in GPU without expert knowledge. Many other Python libraries can use GPU easily, e.g. CuPy and there doesn’t appear to be much development this way in the R community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++ Visual Basic 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Scientist: Geology and Data Science Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:26:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis, Actuarial 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Java 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Insurance Pricing Actuary Data scientist or analyst 15 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T15:26:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The super power it gives one to work with large data syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None R 1975 male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia not for profit Commercial Finance Manager Financial professional 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:27:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually You can do anything with it, amazing community and so many great packages Packages that have poor documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Non-profit think tank Director, Data Science Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T15:30:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually That is growing and expanding and that is more than just a statistical analysis language nowadays. I love that. When different packages clash with each other. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom International development Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T15:30:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested The huge amount of commands available More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), My proprietary software written in FORTRAN, IMSL libraries Yes Usually One can write own libraries and is not bound to pre-packaged stats software The variation in quality of the packages ranging from exceptional to poor Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, browse R books which I downloaded from internet R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase """five"".*" Occasionally -- less than once a month Personal research I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Wing Personal 7.2 5 4 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, FORTRAN, Prolog, Libreoffice Basic 1951 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Italy Natural Resources and Mining NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T15:31:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) Data Viz A million random results pop up when you try searching for “R” (Python gets much better results because it’s unique) Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Shiny, Geocomputation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Atom Yes Usually It’s free, and now it can do so much more than just statistics, free books When a package guide has outdated instructions (tmap) or really unhelpful docs (rgl) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, DataCamp General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, YouTube Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Sometimes I don’t share my results I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau, Does HTTP/CSS count? Prolly not.. Excel 1992 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Not Employed "NA" None 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:32:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses "That moment when ""basic"" tidyverse isn't sufficient, e.g. when you start actually programming with dplyr or similar and are suddenly exposed all of the backend quirks of R" Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Speed of development and natural API Lack of a dask competitor!! I know there are some options for working on clusters, but nothing quite like dask for parallelization General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 4 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R C/C++ 1988 male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Transportation Direct of Analytics Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T15:32:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Not sure on that Lack of modeling interfaces that are available in python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Presentations I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, R, Tableau, C# , SQL C# 1973 Male White Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) United States of America Construction Business Intelligence Developer Data scientist or analyst 250 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T15:33:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse + Tidymodels get(paste0()) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Python interoperability I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Tensorflow RStudio Desktop (IDE), Spyder 2 3 I expect it to increase Python, R, Stata Stata 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Manufacturing Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA R-bloggers English 2020-12-11T15:33:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 6 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Visualisation capabilities NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS R 1991 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T15:33:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Occasionally the flexibility, the possibility to write a script and to improve it continuously. Installing packages is tricky on our Windows system. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Mostly charts on our web site I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic GW Basic, Clipper, dBase, Quick Basic 1962 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Statistics in agriculture Dr. sc. tech. Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T15:36:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Versatility Packages portability when R version is updated General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS SAS 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Agriculture and Animal Science Researcher Researcher 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:36:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Rmd and tidyverse Limited in scope; I want to move toward model deployment / data engineering which is heavily skewed towards Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Web site via distill I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, Visual Basic Java 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Not Employed Graduate student Student 50 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T15:37:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was both interested for stats analysis and wanted to teach stats using R. Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Occasionally It's powerful, flexible and modular. Also the fact that it requires coding. NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS 1955 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Turkey Education Dr Retired 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T15:37:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 1 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally R Shiny, very quick to integrate analytics into UI Formatting numbers + texts, working with various data types seems inordinately complex General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA 2 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, PHP, R, Visual Basic Pascal 1981 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Insurance Consultant Consultant or Advisor 25 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T15:39:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, SPSS No Occasionally Availability of packages for huge range of analyses Evaluating the worthiness and use of different packages. Difficult to choose between and identify suitable packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Thesis I expect it to stay the same 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1993 Male White Currently doing PhD, got masters degree United Kingdom Research PhD student Student 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:42:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Parallelization More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS Yes Usually Vectorized Parallelization and errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Julia, Python, R C/C++ 1971 Male Iranian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Iran Research Laboratory Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T15:43:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Open Source, massive collection of packages graphs. Learning/remembering which functions to call to tweak chart elements. Different relative element sizes at different canvas sizes. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, R, Visual Basic Excel 1971 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education DBA Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:44:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The community Debugging Shiny General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely UseR conference, R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T15:44:19Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses NA More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually How powerful language for data manipulation and statistical analysis NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Slovenia Financial Services and Activities Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T15:45:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually A lot of online resources and the tidyverse and rmarkdown (and friends) Too few People in my org use it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, r package I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1982 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T15:48:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization NA 7 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Vim Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Vim 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Visual Basic 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Assistant Economist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T15:52:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually RStudio, RMarkdown, tidyverse pipes NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Matlab, PHP, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic TurboPascal 1982 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Financial Services and Activities Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 40 Yes, definitely PyCon conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T15:53:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Lot of packages NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R COBOL 1972 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Professor and researcher Educator NA No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T15:54:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 48 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Rarely The packages and the community Versions, packages not available for that version... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1962 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Senior Lecturer Educator 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T15:54:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The quality & reproducibility of the output Not knowing where the error is in a unique pipeline General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R Excel 1989 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoc Researcher 3 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:54:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau No Usually tidyverse base R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Scraping Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau GW-Basic 1980 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Korea, South Media a staff reporter journalist 0 Neutral NA https://www.r-bloggers.com/ English 2020-12-11T15:55:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, git/github No Usually The flexibility and power it has. Someone has probably made a package that encapsulates what you want to do, or you can make it. In my industry I am constantly having to prove it is better than SAS. It is held to a different standard, which is no fault of R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Apps to make steps that might be done by a programmer accessible to admin staff I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Matlab 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Statistical Programmer Data scientist or analyst 25 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T15:56:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community Debugging is really worse than anywhere else General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling Databricks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Basic (1988) 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Utilities Quantitative Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T15:56:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis, Building Web apps 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Interoperability. Amazing for working together with JavaScript and python. Single threaded General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io 5 8 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R S languange 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Research Researcher Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T15:57:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Writing codes and the lot of packages one has to remember Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Statcraft Yes Usually Statistical analysis Coding Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Google search When I hear while learning Email, Whatsapp I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SAS, Statcraft Fortran 1958 Male Tamilian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Industrial Project Management like EPCM Consultant to pulp and paper as well as energy sectors Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T15:57:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 NA RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Reproducibility/documentation of workflow Immediate colleagues don't use it/can't read code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing NA 3 NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R BASIC 1975 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Nonprofit Quantitative data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0.5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T15:58:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work I didn't know much stats before learning and didn't have specific problems. It was (still is) to learn both stats and R More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually Fluent interaction with data frames (tables) and matricies. Fast array of high quality packages (ecosystem in more general) So far pretty happy about all things General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Sharing data analysis I have done for collaborator I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing, Genomics Conda, JupyterLab 2.0 3 7 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Javascript, Python, R Python 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Research Bioinformatician Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T16:00:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested I learned R in the context of the Tidyverse; it's a very bizarre syntax but very intuitive once you spend time with it More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the Tidyverse! R feels like it's from a different universe, syntactically speaking. It took *a lot* of effort to view the `.` as an ordinary character, rather than a prioritized operator. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RWeekly.org Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Uncertainty Quantification, engineering design Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, Python, R GML 1991 male Asian, White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education professor Educator 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T16:01:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 6 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Visualisation capabilities NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS R 1991 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T16:03:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually the supportive community how many ways there are to do the same thing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1991 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research postdoctoral associate Researcher 100 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T16:04:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 3 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1983 woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education assistant teaching professor Educator 4 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:04:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually tidyverse quality of the plots in RStudio General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora courses Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same """five""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SQL Excel 1981 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Denmark Not Employed NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T16:04:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually It does all I need to do It's slow sometimes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 4 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research PhD Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:04:54Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Interpreting R help files (i.e., function documentation) More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Good user community, good development When I have issues with compilers for certain packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R SAS 1988 female mixed race Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining aquatic scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T16:05:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1994 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Turkey Professional and Business Services Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely PyCon conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T16:07:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Spatial analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Can do almost any analysis that I need to do. At the beginning, it is be hard to learn General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Social media, such as Twitter I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1991 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Research NA Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T16:08:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It's open source; the helpful user community; the many online resources; the variety of packages available; the tidyverse; ggplot; R Projects memory management; many class types General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1992 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:11:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The ability to use one language to do a variety of things from making gifs to high level computing, text analysis to tweeting and everything in between. The mysterious error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1989 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Associate Specialist Researcher 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:11:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Information Technologies Forecasting Specialist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:11:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It solved a problem. Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau, Powerbi Yes Usually It's flexibility and RStudio IDE. Inconsistency between packages or versions. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, R 3 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, Python, R, Tableau R 1989 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T16:11:28Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning the RStudio development environment Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 3 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 2.0 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R Excel 1999 NA White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Not Employed NA Student NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:13:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Model deployment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I love how quickly I can understand my data using ggplot and how quickly I can build a model Model deployment... I wish there were better deployment. Tidypredict is in a less than desirable state. R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, F1 Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Typically more advanced NLP tasks... If I need to do speech-to-text python has better documentation versus R specifically for using Google or microsoft cognitive services. Anaconda, Databricks, JupyterLab 3.0 NA 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1988 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3000 Neutral RStudio::conf, UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T16:13:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course i wanted to do machine learning Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually Ease of learning is not very well integrated with Databricks General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 1 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1980 MAle White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Managing Director Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:13:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Highlight to run code. Feel like a maestro with a lot of personal control over program flow Updating and installing packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, Tableau 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1994 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Australia Gaming Reporting Analyst Data scientist or analyst 7 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T16:14:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibility, wide range of packages, ggplot and dplyr It's slow compared to other tools General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1993 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Biostatistician Statistician 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:15:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 3 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally If you need help, you’ll find someone happy to help you, i.e. super friendly community Cryptic and non-clear error messages that cost hours of googling. Especially when working on different computers with different OSs on the same project. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Dynamic Reporting I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Java, R, C# PHP 1995 Male White, Why you even ask this? Greetings from Europe! Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Austria Information Technologies NA Student NA No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T16:15:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually The community. It is difficult to have models deployed in production/those outside of academia prefer Python. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, SQL Excel 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Director, Research Analysis Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:16:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Java 1991 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Transportation PhD student Student 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:16:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually it is intuitive and there is a robust community i find it hard to remember things and have to look up syntax still. sometimes spin wheels on an issue for a long time. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Personal blog or web site owned by you, Twitter I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R C# 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:16:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, geocomputation/maps 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), QGIS Yes Occasionally vectorization, data structure help() Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, books !!! community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, data camp Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning basic ide or command line 2 9 I expect it to increase R SPSS 1981 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research post-doc Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:16:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 It was the program we used in my stats courses in school. Had to learn on the fly. It was part of a course I took Managing packages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis, Social statistics 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually It's free. sometimes confusing. Many packages do similar things. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Word documents and pdfs, excel I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Microsoft Excel, R 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic, SQL html 1984 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Advancement Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:18:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 all of the above but in-person courses it's a damn good tool for all topics related to data Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Spatial analysis, ETL, workhorse for GUI tools 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), ArcGIS Pro, QGIS Yes Occasionally the endless possibilities the endless possibilities General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating Power Point and Word documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month maintaining legacy code, arcpy library R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), ArcGIS 3 5 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R, PL/pgSQL Borland Delphi NA NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA NA 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T16:18:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The fun community Updating and having code no longer work General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1983 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Student 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T16:18:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Visualization 3 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually community to help learn steep learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None C/C++ 1967 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America professional sports NA Consultant or Advisor 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:18:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Relatively easy install and broad functionality with few packages Slow for certain things. Fewer resources (packages and documentation) than python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating formatted documentation for personal/coworker use I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, dynamic data visualization I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 2 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1987 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Graduate Student Researcher Student 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:20:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Understanding different objects’ behavior Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually High level language Slowness Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling NA 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS R 1996 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Financial Services and Activities NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T16:20:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R NA NA Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:21:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Having code documenting my steps in easy-to-read English Having to convince new managers to invest in it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Twitter I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau HTML 1992 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Transportation Senior Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:22:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Genomics 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Occasionally It’s interestingly different from c like languages The online community sometimes seems a bit mono cultural General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Roxygen I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R Java NA NA NA Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Professional and Business Services Consultant Software developer 3 No, not really Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T16:25:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Stata 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Market Research NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T16:26:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 6 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Visualisation capabilities NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS R 1991 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T16:27:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Community Error messages could sometimes be more informative, especially for beginners. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R Matlab 1995 Man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Research PhD student Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:28:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Packages available for all applications I need First experience programming, so learning data types and syntax was difficult General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1998 Female White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Research Undergraduate Research Assistant Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:28:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 6 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Visualisation capabilities NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS R 1991 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T16:30:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week organizing my scripts I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1989 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research PhD student Student 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:30:58Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually hex stickes on my laptop not being able to return to an earlier R version when the packages I need are not still updated but I just updated R so I can't work with my prefereed packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, exporting r markdown to word so my dinosaur coauthors can revise it I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, Swift Visual Basic 1988 male White My country is Catalonia, not in the list NA Research Associate Professor Educator 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:33:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Understanding the use of R in context of analysis workflows More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, SPSS No Usually End to end coverage of overall data workflow NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Twitter I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Rolling out R based utilities to others in my organisation I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, PHP, Python, R, SAS, SPSS Basic 1969 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) New Zealand Education IT Training Advisor Consultant or Advisor 500 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:35:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-11T16:35:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually The streamlined tidyverse packages and more broadly the support from RStudio to keep improving the language and the tools. Less support for R compared to Python in many deployment tools and production environments. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Internal network drives I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Tableau Java 1990 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Professional and Business Services Statistical consultant in general insurance Consultant or Advisor 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T16:36:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io I don't know what the tidyverse is Usually The community and meetups such as R-Ladies, #rstats, Swirl I wish there was a text to code conversion for basic thing like loops, plots General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Sharing my research results via GitHub pages I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R, SQL Stata 1991 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Empirical Social Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:36:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Having access to learning resources. It was in a time where internet was not 100% accessible to me and also there weren't many resources back then. Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Econometrics 5 10 Matlab, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The amount of resources available How it stores objects in the memory General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, econometrics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R assembly 1986 female Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Not Employed NA Student 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:38:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Big helpful community I don’t understand how a lot of stuff underlying functions in packages works which makes it hard to troubleshoot. Like what is a quosure?? General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Text processing Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 8 I expect it to increase R, SPSS SPSS 1990 Nonbinary White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Postdoc Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:38:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data processing Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing R 2 5 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1974 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Information Technologies Customer support supervisor Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:39:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It provides a powerful skillset that can be acquired at virtually no cost. The name R4DS Slack General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating vignettes for teaching I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Fortran 1963 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Mexico Research Academic technician Researcher 5 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T16:40:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually So much possiblity Not sure yet General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Not applied I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel Excel 1986 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Netherlands Financial Services and Activities Mid office Administration 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T16:43:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Financial analysis 4 6 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), PowerBI Yes Usually Number of available packages The official documentation is hard to follow. And how to find the best packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Powershell Powershell 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Information Technologies Team lead Management 2 No, not really Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:45:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Free NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SPSS Basic (com 64) 1981 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Research PhD candidate Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:47:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The flexibility. Having to search for the right package for a given statistical task frequently. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R, SAS Visual Basic 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Education PhD candidate Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:47:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually simplicity inconsistencies among packages or versions of packages over time General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling JupyterLab 3.0 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1961 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Education Associate professor Researcher 20 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:47:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Clean graphics Processing non-tabular data like json or XML General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Pycharm 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, Python, R, Ruby C/C++ 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:48:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Can reproduce my work Sometimes good documentation is hard to find General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Textbooks General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, GitLab I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating HTML reports I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Software development Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, PyCharm 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, SQL Visual Basic 1985 Female White Graduate Diploma Australia Research Data Scientist/Developer Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-11T16:49:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse verbs are well-aligned with semantics of data analysis Base R is often counter-intuitive General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, GitHub sidebar of recommendations Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Package vignettes I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Text processing Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T16:50:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Visualisation and data handling Hard to organise codes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None I am just getting started learning programming 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Research Researcher Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:54:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibe analyses "Indecipherable error codes that whenever I teach someone R, I just have to say ""Oh, that means you're missing X"", something I myself have only learned by trial and error." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Java 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Epidemiologist 1 Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:54:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Matlab 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Greece Not Employed NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T16:54:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually tidyverse NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R QBasic 1957 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine Medical director Medical professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T16:55:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The endless posibilities and community Resolution on graphs General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Education Assistant Professor Educator 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:55:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually using pipes using a new package General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, c# Fortran77 1960 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Research Researcher Researcher 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T16:56:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Variety of packages and alternatives and the power to manage data and make the most of it NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R C/C++ 1988 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bolivia consulting on multiple NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T16:57:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Excel, PHP, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1984 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany social services research assistent Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:58:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Working for myself, I could no longer afford proprietary packages Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Notepad++ No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA R Fortran 1954 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Education NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:59:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Ability for version control with GitHub and creating reproducible analyses for my research projects When I need to accomplish a very specific task, such as adjusting a visualization element, that I don't already know, it can sometimes take a long time to figure out. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SQL Excel 1992 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Fisheries Data Scientist and Coordinator Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T16:59:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually You can automate tasks The ability of colleagues being able to replicate what I do General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1985 Male Hispanic/Latinx Some college or university, no college degree United Kingdom NA Administrator Administration 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T17:02:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease R, BUGS/JAGS R 1990 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining Quantitative Fisheries Scientist Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T17:03:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work "No clear on-ramp; no ""Hello World""; materials only available for tidyverse with a focus on data science" Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 1 4 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Twitter I plan to stop using it five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Other people's code in Rmd I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Ruby, Tableau, SQL Matlab 1983 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Not Employed Data Dude None NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:05:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job At first I needed something bigger and more reliable than Excel for my job thinking in vectors rather than explicit loops More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Never data.table The culture war around the tidyverse Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, R Studio newsletter is very good. Also, I try not to find new packages. I want to get work done, not explore (which is fun, but distracting). Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day "Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Html reports, and I use it as a notebook, but not the actual R Studio ""R Notebook""" I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda 1 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Bash / Shell VBA 1975 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Really it's a mix NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T17:05:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R I am just getting started learning programming 1967 male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) France Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional NA Neutral Local or regional R meetup r-bloggers.com English 2020-12-11T17:06:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Data visualization Outside of tidyverse, there is much less documentation on packages/workflows/etc. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, General note taking I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Genomics Anaconda, Conda 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Perl, bash/command line Basic 1983 Female Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Bioinformatics Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:06:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The potential, you can do basically everything with it related to stats Similar tasks can be done in multiple ways and that’s confusing. Univocal syntax for certain tasks would be better Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Education Researcher Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:08:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1998 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau Yes Occasionally Be able to analyze using modern methods Even though people think that by adding new features they are making the life of the people easier. I think you are wrong. You are trying to make everybody as programmers. It is getting more computer software engineering biased :( General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SPSS C/C++ 1970 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Turkey Education Professor, Quantitative Decision Making Statistician 3 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:09:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my studies Finding proper packages to use Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 6 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Strong scientific background and citations in statistical packages developed by academics Navigating the packages zoo. Often insufficient examples in documentation. Often documentation is too minimal Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-Ladies slack, Twitter and meetups Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-Ladies network Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Survey analysis, Financial analysis Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Pycharm 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, Python, R HTML and Pascal 1984 female Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:09:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power bi No Usually Ease of use Limitations on data size (ram) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Principal Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T17:11:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities The idea I didn't realise I had that coding want for me More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Tied between tidyverse and the community My colleagues use python Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Pycharm 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1986 Female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Information Technologies Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T17:19:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually The flexibility of it. You can do almost anything. The documentation can be overly dense and hard to understand, especially for base functions. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic, Unix command line Java 1992 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:20:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually online community can usually help me out when I'm stuck can be difficult to install dependencies (like Java), especially as they change across OS. I know I should be using containers, but I haven't figured out how yet General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, github issues or the package documentation itself General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, creating html project reports I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau R 1989 woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral Researcher Researcher 40 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:23:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually accessible, reproducible, available on all computing platforms Debugging reactivity General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1984 NA White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Physician Medical professional 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T17:24:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS, Tableau SPSS NA Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst NA NA NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:25:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ability to visualize data downloading packages, getting versions to line up Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Basic 1968 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:26:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS HTML 1995 man Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research Doctoral Researcher Researcher 3 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T17:28:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse syntax, pipes, ggplot graphics and their intuition, RStudio suit Confusing r base syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Twitter I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 5 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Visual Basic 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Financial Services and Activities Analyst Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:31:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Nothing in particular - R and especially RStudio is amazing More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Intuitive coding and documentation, amazing documentation and community. - General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Modeling, covid modelling - agent based simulations Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 4 I plan to stop using it Python, R C/C++ 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Denmark Research Computational assistant Statistician 30 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:34:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Tidyverse ? General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1972 Man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Financial Services and Activities Researcher Financial professional 20 Yes, somewhat NA NA English 2020-12-11T17:35:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to use either R or Python to make my analytical projects more robust. I found R more logical to the way I think about analyses. Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I can usually find the answer I am looking for from the R community. Knowing what packages to use and dependency issue when using different packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RMarkdown documents I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Results of analysis for others in my group. I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Online calculators I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1953 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Director of Analytics Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:35:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course NA Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, shinyMobile apps 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Chrome Developer Tools (shiny, shinyMobile) Yes Usually Welcoming community, overall positive spirit, the enthusiasm I perceive from the RStudio organisation and many developers who share their work and insights online I can't think of anything that I dislike much General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, mobile apps I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, mobile apps (shinyMobile package) I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month websites with database connection Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1966 male White Some college or university, no college degree Germany Not Employed NA Software developer NA Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T17:35:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally It's versatility and compatibility with many other software. Since am a beginner, troubleshooting is difficult for me, instead if R suggests me interactively where exactly am going wrong then it will be the best option. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) I don't share the results as am learning R for my Master's research work. I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1983 Female Asian Am pursuing Master of Information Technology New Zealand Information Technologies Not working currently. (Previously SAP ABAP Consultant) Student 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T17:36:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Graduate School It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 2 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Java 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Transportation Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T17:36:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The range of possibilities The installation hiccups General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Text processing, Scraping, OCR Sublime Text 3 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1977 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Norway Research Senior research fellow Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:37:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally Statistical capabilities and ease of use Poor support outside RStudio General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month General-purpose scripting Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Visual Basic 1995 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Egypt Health Care and Medicine Pharmacist Medical professional 0 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T17:38:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Reproducibility Personal package debugging and troubleshooting between projects General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, gaml Excel 1985 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Research PhD Student Student 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:39:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1999 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually visualisations, relative ease of working with messy data, wide availability of statistical methods automation to production environments is clumsy General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Stan C/C++ 1968 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Finland Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T17:40:50Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 6 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Available packages are designed so that end-use is straightforward, visuals are attractive, wide variety of available packages Almost everything requires not-easily-discoverable special knowledge of syntax or conventions Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, a closed community of R users to which I have access General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1978 Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Scientist Researcher 300 No, not at all NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T17:40:58Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Fast Start for people who don’t really want to program but do a statistical research Weak community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Controlling manager Financial professional 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T17:41:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Reporting 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually The constraints and design of tidyverse; tidyverse is perfectly adapted for my job. Frequent interface and functionality changes with new package versions. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Unformatted draft documents not publication-ready I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R PHP 1994 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Professional and Business Services data analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T17:43:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Strong set of statistical packages Debugging and package/version management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Word documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS Matlab 1990 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research Epidemiologist Researcher NA No, not really RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:43:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I plan to stop using it Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, PHP, R C/C++ 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:43:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Managing packages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The recent development of R packages allow me to do all my daily work in R. Too many packages available; a bit time consuming to filter through these. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase """three""" Daily -- Once or more per day Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R stata 1990 Female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Graduate Student Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T17:44:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Built specifically for statistics Not easy to plug into a production environment General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1990 male Asian, White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Information Technologies Data Science Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:45:58Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 2 5 EMACS ESS mode No Rarely Simplicity Lack of coherence in packages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I plan to stop using it five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing NA 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Go, Javascript, Julia, R R 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Principal data scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:46:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Downloading and installing the software Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Free software and variety of packages Not sure General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Scientific publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1985 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Mexico Education Profesor Researcher 2 NA NA Email English 2020-12-11T17:46:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took "Learning how to think in an ""R-ish"" way" Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually That it's the tool I already know how to use Troubleshooting weird package installs General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interfacing to AWS Anaconda 2 6 I expect it to decrease Excel, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1992 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Graduate Research Assistant Student 2 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:46:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Interface, community I want to know more about it and what it’s capable of doing, but it’s hard to know where to start General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1997 Female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Research Coordinator Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:46:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R NA 1980 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA NA NA Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:46:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io No Usually Tidyverse grammer!! Understanding error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1975 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research scientist Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:47:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Reproducibility of programmatic analysis (versus using SPSS/pure GUI) and visualisation - so much easier! Several things: the vector-based approach isn’t intuitive if you’ve got programming experience in other languages like Python, PHP, C or Java and requires you getting your head around a lot of new concepts; the examples in the social sciences and humanities are few and far between, which makes it harder for people from non-science backgrounds to use it; the total absence of GUI for common tasks (a la SPSS) makes teaching it to people who aren’t technical and weaning them onto code quite hard. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Basic scripting and automation NA 5 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, SPSS Pascal 1985 Male Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research Postdoctoral researcher Researcher 5 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:47:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually consistent syntax and simplicity among the tidyverse inconsistent syntax between packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R SAS 1987 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Research Biostatistician Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:48:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The kindness and enthusiasm of the R community Performance and base R syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, exploratory data analysis I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Ruby, Tableau Visual Basic 1989 non-binary femme White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Instructional Specialist Educator 20 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:48:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1998 Female White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining NA Student 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:48:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io No Usually its adaptability and how many (usually open-source) materials there are when there is poor documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month basic batch applications like renaming files NA 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Basic 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education assistant professor Educator 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:48:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The versatility Parentheses for shiny are goddamn hard to debug General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Pascal 1994 Woman Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Research Research assistant Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:49:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Hard to say. I like RStudio, I like the R syntax, I like tidyverse, and all of it is free. I wish it was more popular in the economics profession. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1986 Male Black/African, White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Finland Not Employed I was in education but now I’m between jobs Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:49:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Occasionally Easy to learn The help files are often unhelpful (and regex sucks). Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1983 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Financial Services and Activities Senior Manager Financial professional 50 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:49:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Great community; easy to find packages; easy to find good manuals NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Data sharing repositories I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Simple scripts for things where I can't use R Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Matlab, Python, R R 1990 male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Research Postdoc Researcher NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:50:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the syntax of the tidyverse unexpected behaviors compared to Python and C++; e.g. base functions don't return consistent data types General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, creating web sites via distill I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing, Genomics, Teaching Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 5 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R Python 1996 woman White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Bioinformatics PhD Candidate Researcher 8 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:50:25Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 1 5 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally nothing syntax is not very elegant. it's a strange language (python is way better) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, SPSS 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, SPSS basic 2.0 1977 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Research researcher Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:51:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually How the Tidyverse makes tedious data jobs joyful Error messages that don’t make sense General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1978 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research A/Prof Researcher 2 Yes, definitely rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T17:51:27Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do data analysis with it Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Documentation of scientific work (R markdown) 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect Yes Usually Fundamentally it allows reproducible research - through being a script/git integration etc. Importantly, it is free - for many years in academic science many used Excel because it is often on a campus licence. It was always clear to me that Excel was a suboptimal way of doing science. While R is not quite a singularity, it facilitates so many different Mostly it is the steep learning curve. R Studio is excellent, I just wish for a GUI makeover in keeping with Mac GUIs - ie. clean with depth (I know this is very difficult stuff though - its functionality is one of its big pluses). It is just that it looks a bit like a clunky windows program. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Conda 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Access I am just getting started learning programming 1977 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Research Associate Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:51:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Sport science 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually The tidyverse! The R community who are so welcoming & supportive. I also love the open source nature of doing science and statistics, plus being able to share data & insights. Decoding error messages. Also sometimes hard to stay up to date with happenings, although Twitter is a great space for this. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Data dictionaries Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 3 I expect it to stay the same Go, R Excel 1989 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Research Fellow (Sport Science) Researcher 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:52:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually A lot of the data I work in is either in tabular or can be treated as/conceptualized as tabular-- which R specializes at string manipulation, python is infinitely more concise at this General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, social media I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Text processing RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1995 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research PhD Student Student 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:53:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Programming in general as R was my first language More than once a day Apple MacOS Software development 3 6 Radian R console (python based) Yes Never Interactive REPL makes for fast iterative development Dealing with CRAN General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Software development ipython 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Julia, Python, R, Ruby R 1980 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Co-founder Software developer 4 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:53:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually ggplot ! functions — just because they’re tricky. iteration. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Twitter I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Taking notes on how to use R I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 4 I expect it to increase R, SPSS SPSS 2000 Female White Some college or university, no college degree United Kingdom Student NA Student NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:53:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Data preparation and management Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel Yes Rarely RStudio Environment NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, YouTube General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to stay the same 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks NA NA NA Python, R, Swift Swift 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Research Student Researcher NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T17:53:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I was personally interested NA More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse. Its consistency, intuitiveness, and documentation Writing to excel from r General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Environment Ngo /charity Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 8 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:53:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's getting easier to find documentation and examples. I find it a bit sloppy with images. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) if my peers don't use R. I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, R 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, R C/C++ 1986 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Transportation Research Scientist Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:54:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse and rmarkdown for everything! Not known well enough by others in organisation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 3 I expect it to increase R, Tableau Matlab 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Telecom Product manager Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:54:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely I like how I can use R for almost every step in my analytical workflow I wish there were as good tutorials for base R as there are for tidyverse! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 5 I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1988 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Postdoctoral Fellow Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:55:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I needed/wanted to learn it for my PhD Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The supportive community and the fantastic materials it generously provides for free. It's the single best thing about R. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1982 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Education Research associate Educator 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:55:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Knowing that everything is possible, available, and can be customized Mysterious error messages based on underlying data structure expectations General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R SAS 1971 Female White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:55:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Tableau, ArcGIS Yes Usually It’s easy and there is a big community of users posting help online There don’t seem to be any quality resources for packages/functions vs what you are trying to accomplish. I stumble onto things that I wish I knew much earlier all the time General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, General reporting I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month GIS Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau, ArcGIS 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Tableau, Sql Python 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Military Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:55:31Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 in an econometrics class in school I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud Yes Usually i love that’s it’s such a powerful tool so there are always new things to learn and different ways to apply tools to whatever i’m working on i don’t like that it can be hard to learn when you don’t have specific work/school projects that use it. Sometimes i feel like i’m stuck with the basic knowledge of R that I have and can’t progress even though i want to. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Assignments for school I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS I am just getting started learning programming 1998 female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Not Employed NA Student 5 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:55:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Yes Usually Tidyverse universe makes it easy to get work done!! Possibilities are endless for automation and deriving insights. I've been using tidymodels and it's been frustrating bc it requires more debugging and options are more limiting in terms of types of models that can be built. All documentation involves using toy examples. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau R 1991 Female NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T17:56:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually How the language is evolving as a tool for reproducible research Nothing really General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R SAS 1973 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Professor Educator NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:56:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Flexibility and intuitive language from the tidyverse. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Presentations and meetings I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Stata 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Epidemiologist Data scientist or analyst 30 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:56:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 7 I expect it to increase Julia Java 1997 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Public Health Analyst Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:57:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic BBC BASIC 1978 female NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine medical writer Writer 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:57:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually universe of packages; flexibility bitrot General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, R Excel 1985 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:57:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Support community Help files too technical, need more clear examples General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Internal reports I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Anaconda 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research Postgraduate Researcher Student 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:57:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data cleaning I think knowing the tidyverse stops me from being as good at base R as I want to be Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, Visual Basic R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research NA Researcher 2 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:58:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), vi, kdevelop No Usually it makes complex things easy simple things are complex + issues with packages versions "General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, look up information in books like ""the Big R-book""" "I use the set of ""the Big R-book: from data-science to learning machines and big data""" Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Youtube, linkedIn I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, pdf documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R, Visual Basic, Octave BASIC, then PASCAL, then C 1969 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Financial Services and Activities director / consul / professor Financial professional 50 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T17:58:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Free, lots of useful library, good documentation. My code could go obsolete just in one year when I occasionally update the packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 6 I expect it to decrease Python, R, SAS SAS 1990 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Indonesia Health Care and Medicine NA Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:58:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually %>% Working with date data General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1972 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Manufacturing NA NA NA Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:58:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took understanding statistics More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, SQL server ml services No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), plumber webservices, internal reports I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week creating reports using knitr I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R turbo pascal 1978 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Financial Services and Activities head of analytics Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:58:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Its relevance for my work (health research) and the community. Even as a pretty competent R user, the error messages are still confusing. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Posters, websites with distill I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R SAS 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Research Clinical researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:58:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Currently interacting with others’ dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1987 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:58:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to draw beautiful plots. Less proper help in native language. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Julia, Matlab, SAS R 1990 Female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Japan Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:59:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Immediate response from expressions Data types General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Learning Python Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R BASIC (on ZX Spectrum) 1954 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Portugal Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) statistician Statistician 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:59:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R Python 1989 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Transportation Postdoc Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:59:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Functional syntax Complicated vectorization functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Visual Basic FORTRAN NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Not for profit/charity NA IT 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:59:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1997 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 EMACS ESS mode, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud No Occasionally community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, plain old HTML documentations (not for formal publication) I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, Ruby BASIC 1967 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research professor Educator 3 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T17:59:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA Breadth of packages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Excel I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Python, R Java 1980 Man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Transportation NA Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:00:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Programming Anaconda, R 3 5 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1994 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research Research Associate Researcher 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:00:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Flexibility Problems with R and packages versions Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SQL R 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Agriculture Dat Science Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T18:00:27Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 4 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel Excel NA NA NA Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Research NA Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:01:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Flexibility of the language and inclusive community. That object of type closure is not subsetable General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Google Collab 1 3 I expect it to increase R R 1994 Woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Education Psychology technician Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:01:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 2.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse Slow for loops Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, e-mail reports I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic HTML 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Manufacturing Manufacturing Engineer Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:02:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Matlab, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Easy and fast exploration and analysis of data Memory can sometimes be problematic General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Mainly GitHub I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda 2 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine Research assistant Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:02:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally I love bookdown and use it for literally everything I do now - from analysis in my research to collating teaching materials. "Counting starting at 1 -> assigning variables" Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, GitLab pages I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Python, R Python 1992 cis woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Data Librarian librarian (also tenure track faculty) 8 Neutral rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:02:58Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA NA I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1996 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:03:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Automated report templates I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, I use simple Shiny gadgets every day, but seldom create Shiny applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, R, SQL R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Senior Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:03:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Literate - can generally read code. Interconnected to important tools like REDCap. Lots of resources and community to help. cryptic error messages, the price of NSE (tidyeval) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, #rstats Twitter is the most frequent Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Stata Apple Basic 1965 Male White MD, PhD in biosciences, and MSc in statistics United States of America Health Care and Medicine Professor Researcher / medical professional / educator 40 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:04:38Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Using with Hadoop More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Vscode Yes Usually Easy to make nice charts with custom themes Having to use vscode at work General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Tidytuesday Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Tableau SAS 1972 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) New Zealand Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:05:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I couldn’t solve a problem at work with Excel Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Tidyverse and RStudio Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Matlab 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Iceland Professional and Business Services Data scientist and economist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:05:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS, BigQuery SAS 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Professional and Business Services Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:05:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1998 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 9 JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro, Tableau Yes Usually The ability to succintly to do data science Obtuse error messages Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, SAS FORTRAN 1971 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Principal Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:05:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Functional programming and NSE Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 8 EMACS ESS mode, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of use, readable syntax, thriving community Frequently confusing and un-informative error messages. Also, NSE is great, but extremely difficult to use consistently in writing one’s own functions. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:06:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Wide selection of packages The R language itself General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I plan to stop using it Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, Tableau, Visual Basic, Scala C/C++ 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:06:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 3 5 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually NA Error tracing, base r legacies (e.g. strings as factors), the fact that many people use R just because they are comfortable with R even when there are better solutions to use General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I plan to stop using it Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, R 4 5 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Julia, PHP, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1993 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Bulgaria Insurance Predictive Analytics Modeler Data scientist or analyst 100 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:07:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Research Project I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I like using R for manipulation of my dataset as well the visual graphics. The error messages and figuring out why the error is occuring. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R Excel 1994 Female Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Medical Student Student 5 Yes, somewhat R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T18:07:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually open source, non-proprietary availability, high quality graphics, intuitive stats outputs Can't really complain at all, because it's all free and the online community is very helpful. So maybe this is a criticism of my own attitude towards using R and my reluctance to learn/read up. But.... I've always found the R help files to be really unintuitive. I feel as if they've been written for people who have spent an entire career learning computer/coding jargon. Which is fine, but I am a biologist using R for stats and visualising data, and my background is not in stats or computing. I find it easier every time to google specific error messages rather than using the help files because I really can't get my head around them. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase FIVE I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1988 MALE White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Postdoctoral Research Fellow Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:07:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The tidyverse That Python is taking over General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, MOOCs Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), PowerBI I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R, C# GW-BASIC 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Manufacturing Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T18:07:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually It's open source and has a great community, especially the dev related to RStudio That periode from when things start bugging until I realize an update is long overdue General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Tidyverse websites, package documentation websites CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Norway Research Postdoc Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:08:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 12 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Perl Perl 1976 male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Research Associate Professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:08:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1978 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Associate Professor Medical professional 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:08:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I needed a tool to graph a huge number of data points, substantially beyond Excel's capabilities. Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA The innumerable -- I realize I exaggerate, but not by much -- ways of doing the same thing (e.g. subsetting) is confusing and probably needless. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, for environmental engineering calculations that show data and calculations. I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1976 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Process engineer Environmental Engineer 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:09:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually It makes sense NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to decrease Python, R R 1985 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Insights Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T18:09:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating custom Word document using officedown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1972 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Portugal Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Técnico Superior Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T18:09:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually The community The negative stereotypes about R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Python 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Manufacturing Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:10:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually It's the only programming language that makes sense to me. The documentation and community is wonderful that more people haven't fallen in love with it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, ETL processes I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1978 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing NA NA NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T18:10:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually r syntax & tidyverse; rstudio environment NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1995 female NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research NA Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:11:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Versatility in data analysis, data visualization "Not as general as other ""actual"" high-level programming languages (e.g. Python)" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating html reports I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, File processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, Shell scripting (bash) Shell scripting (bash) 1990 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Norway Information Technologies Senior engineer "Data ""shepard""" 2 Neutral UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:12:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Functional programming aspect Tidyverse dominates everything... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Web development, administration R, Visual Studio Code, Docker, powershell 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SQL R 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:12:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R C/C++ NA NA White NA Brazil Not Employed NA NA NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:12:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Understanding evaluation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The power and usability for my work in data science ce Dealing with messy code Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Azure Devops I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SQL Python 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data scientist NA 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:13:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The flexibility and power NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1993 male Asian, White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral associate Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:13:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The community is unique. There is an inclusive focus on pragmatic usefulness in professional contexts. Not a lot of computer science snobbery. That idea that UI design extends to programming languages is mostly unique to R. I like R because I can usually get the most done with the least code and the fewest things that require googling or trips to the documentation. Lists are cumbersome, pipes and dot notation can be confusing, there isn't a great virtual environment thing like python has pipenv. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning NA 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R R NA NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research NA Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:14:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community to answer questions Cryptic error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Survey analysis Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Professional and Business Services Senior Analyst Consultant or Advisor 15 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T18:14:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Clinical trials 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Easy Unexpected behavior, and packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA No, not really NA NA English 2020-12-11T18:14:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Perl 1989 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research PhD student Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:15:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Data engineering 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro, JS note, qlik view, various ides No Usually Reliability and thorough covering of stat needs Headless behaviour not matching in person, limited NLP librairies , headless scraping is subpar General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing R, Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Go, Javascript, Python, R R 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Logistics Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:16:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Nvim-R Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Signal processing NA 5 10 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R R 1994 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Portugal Research Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:16:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's incredible flexibility! I particularly enjoy data manipulation and visualization within the tidyverse packages. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Displaying data visualizations in html format with the people I work under I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1997 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Ph.D. Student Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:16:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy, good community, good documentation. Documentation is not in Albanian. Actually, nothing can be found in Albanian. Would love to contribute on this. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, an html website I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Not Employed NA NA NA NA NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:16:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I needed to develop a bioinformatics pipeline for my startup Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Geneious No Usually When my scripts all work, I am a genius. When my scripts fail, I am a complete moron. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in professional reports to clients I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Visual Basic 1971 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Environmental services Principal Molecular Ecologist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T18:17:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually tidyverse and shiny Lack of interactive charts in ggplot2 and shiny General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Shiny server run by my organization I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, I love shiny I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda 3 3 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic, DAX and M C/C++ 1978 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx, Carioca Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:17:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is Clean NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Programming experiments Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Python 1995 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Research PhD student Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:18:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually The numerous packages implemented via CRAN and GitHub for a variety of things: fantasy football analysis, implementations of novel statistical models, working with many different data types (h5 files, Excel files, MatLab files, SAS files, SPSS files, etc.) Can be computationally slow sometimes. It is difficult to find the fastest way to do things since there are so many options, but this is also a pro that there are several ways to achieve the same goal. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SAS Java 1993 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant Student 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:18:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally the community Lack of kaggle solutions using R packages like tidymodels and mlr3. Professionals that develop these packages should try to spread some knowledge there in form of notebooks/competitions so people can study how the state of art in this field is done in R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Julia, Python, R C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA oil field oil engineer Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:18:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job Wanted to use R packages in general (before R, I was using S-Plus) Having 5 ways to solve the same problem and not knowing enough to avoid the pitfalls in each. Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Geospatial 3 7 JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Snakemake Yes Usually The package ecosystem, particularly having human CRAN maintainers with rigorous standards. 10,000 pitfalls (e.g. everything in R Inferno & Cartesian joins in dplyr) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Snakemake 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, Python, R, Stata Stata 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:18:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, SPSS Yes Rarely It's simplicity NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 15/3 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS Excel 1985 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Nigeria Research Director Statistician 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:19:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1980 Male White Trade/technical/vocational training, no degree awarded Sweden Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:19:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to read code, easy to learn, easy to teach Nothing, I totally love it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Twitter General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Excel, R, Pascal Pascal 1988 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Biotechnology Applications Engineer Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:20:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Got a jumpstart with Coursera, but a lot has been through working in it, using blogs and other resources It was required for my work Basically they were all obstacles, but none of them individually were all that bad More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Excellent, intuitive handling of data frames (or tibbles) and conceptual similarity of dplyr with sql For some specialized things (like time series) there are a large number of packages that one could use, but it’s not always clear which is the most appropriate - there can be a meaningful information gathering cost General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Basic 1978 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Economist Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:23:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Everything about RStudio console Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1990 Women Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Academia Bioinformatician Researcher 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:23:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1992 Doing a PhD (S Plus) I wanted to do statistical analyses No hurdles Between once a day and once a week It varies; Apple ATM Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Teaching maths 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), You should put Power BI on the list No Rarely At this stage, I like that it is general purpose; I use it for project Euler and teaching maths Rcmdr General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Pascal (lol). 1964 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Education none Statistician 0 I'm not sure UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:24:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1992 Woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Retail Senior Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:25:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 36 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Variety of packages Difference in syntax of base R and packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Dropbox sharing I expect it to stay the same 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Recticulate package 4 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Professional and Business Services Solution architect Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T18:26:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Research Researcher Researcher 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:27:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Shiny web applications 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Shiny Great documentations and community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month In arcgis arcgis 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1988 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Research Environmental analyst / researcher Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:27:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Learning R syntax NA Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually The enjoyment of finding a solution to a challenging mungingbproblem Lately it seems that the help info for functions is not current with current implemention, especially in the example code Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Geospatial ArcGIS 1 2 I plan to stop using it Excel, R, Visual Basic, Fortran BASIC (we’re talking 1980s here) 1967 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Water Resource Control Engineer Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:28:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Interactive analyses Writing algorithms yourself in R is really slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Javascript, Python, R, Swift Python 1997 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Research Student Assistant Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:28:54Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Nightly boredom on a research station in the jungle Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility, lots of working solutions in high quality packages, lively and active community That objects of of type closure are not subsettable... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Stan, JAGS, BUGS R 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Postdoc Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:31:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses I learned a lot of surface-level tricks and memorized some code bits, but never mastered the fundamentals. Later this really slowed me down. More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely it's so flexible - you really can do anything you put your mind to How cluttered the package ecosystem has become Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora honestly I'm trying NOT to discover new packages very much, as I find they confuse my understanding - most of what I do is fairly basic, so I'm just trying to master more of the base language. This helps me de-bug things, whereas when I've used packages to do even simple things, de-bugging can be a bit of a nightmare Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating reports I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1985 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T18:31:54Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 webinars I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis, time series modeling 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Occasionally NA complexity of syntax YouTube videos research papers Email I expect it to increase 3 Occasionally -- less than once a month Still new to me I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1955 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India teaching Professor Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T18:32:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Packages and interface NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Linkedin I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1973 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Financial Services and Activities Financial Manager Financial professional 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Finance conference, PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-11T18:32:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Pascal 1978 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Financial Services and Activities Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:32:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually UI and visualization, as well as stat analises Easy to work with onces you learb to use it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase """Five""" Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1970 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Mexico Natural Resources and Mining Director of Centro Ecologico Akumal, a non profit organization Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:33:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Feeling of accomplishment when you do something cool! Plus it's super easy to learn new things (stats, visualization) if you already know the language. I learned using base R and find transitioning to tidyverse/ggplot based programs unintuitive. So there's sort of a new learning curve. There's also some aesthetics that I don't care for that are default in ggplot so it's annoying to have to turn things off (as opposed to base R, where you would have to add those things in). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1986 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research postdoc Researcher 7 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:34:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Rarely Ease access to a lots of state of the art statistical procedures Scripting lengauje General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Survey analysis NA 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, R Pascal 1983 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Research Asociate Researcher Researcher 5 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T18:34:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually There’s generally good support for errors on Stack Overflow, with the exception of errors related to shiny apps. I’ve found it much harder to debug those Inconsistencies in syntax across packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Twitter I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data collection I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1998 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Graduate Researcher Student 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:35:51Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually "Anticipates needs such as ""across"" verbs" Trying to find answers to basic questions such as dealing with nested Json objects Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I stumble on them reading other people's code Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing, Scraping Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, Tableau SAS 1957 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America News media Editor Researcher 2 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:36:39Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Powerful way of sorting data Error messages can be cryptic General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Pipelines Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1982 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Postdoctoral Scientist Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:37:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month web scraping NA 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, Stata Excel 1996 woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Economics PhD student Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:37:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually it's nice for lazy people to produce elegant and well-documented code installation/ package dependency errors / difficulties General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, sometimes twitter General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, rweekly; rstudio top 40 new packages Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month midi Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS C/C++ 1981 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany market research data analysis consultant Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:38:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io No Usually I can do everything i want to, in one language. Hard to distribute to non technical users General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Agro pharma Environmental Fate Modeller Modeller 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:39:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Data viz Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Sql Yes Usually Data viz and easy nature to do things Fast General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Sql Visual Basic NA NA Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Insurance Actuary Management 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:39:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Quick data cleaning, viz, and analysis. Packages for just about anything Not standardized packages. Hard to use in production General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Slack, Google docs I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R Visual Basic 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Insurance Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:39:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 A combination of the above I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Databricks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually simplicity, the ability to manipulate data fast "As much as I love the rstats community, sometimes it feels like a cult that does not enable thinking out of the box (or there is just ""one"" way...)" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, RStudio Cloud 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R C/C++ 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:40:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse makes data wrangling expressive and ggplot makes it easy to produce great plots Too many ways to do the same thing - most of them are bad General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Normal R documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Microsoft Excel, R 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1990 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Information Technologies Data Science Lead Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T18:42:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, google sheet Yes Usually the fun :) not found it yet, but about to look further General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it R BASIC, back in 1989 1974 m Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Serbia and Montenegro Information Technologies data analyst Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:42:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually World of packages, data cleaning and manipulation Linear algebra syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, Conda, Matlab, Microsoft Excel 2 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R Excel 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Economist Researcher 100 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:43:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Text analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS, Power BI Yes Usually Handles weighted survey data much better than Python. Can use within Power BI. Sometimes having to do something that can't be done with tidyverse Ribble and having to revert to base R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Everything eventually winds up in PowerPoint. I work in consulting. Resistance is futile. I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Power BI SPSS 1970 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Professional and Business Services Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:43:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Tableau Yes Usually Broad functionality Crashes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Ruby, SAS, Tableau SAS 1976 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Manager analytics Management 30 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T18:44:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It's simplicity and straight-forwardness - General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Twitter, LinkedIn I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda 2 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic R 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Switzerland Natural Resources and Mining Project engineer Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:45:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Occasionally Lots of existing packages for obscure statistical techniques Five object oriented systems????? General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, PHP, Python, R Visual Basic 1982 Female (cis) White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:45:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1995 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 NCAR Command Language (NCL) Yes Usually It's very well supported, well documented, and there are an extraordinary number of packages. Sometimes the typing can trip you up. Tidyverse helps with that. Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Various R books on my shelf. R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Visualization Anaconda, R, LaTex 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, NCAR Command Language (NCL). Basic 1955 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Now retired Supervisory oceanographer (retired from NOAA) Retired NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:46:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities none really More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, Perl Fortran 1963 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Lecturer Educator 3 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:47:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Usually there is a package for that (paraphrasing the app version of the sentence) inconsistent API in base R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Medicine Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1981 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine Consultant Data scientist or analyst 10 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:47:34Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to make graphs Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA Arbitrary limitations in packages. Eg no secondary axes in ggplot2 General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Stack overflow Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, R Java 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Research fellow Researcher 5 No, not really RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:48:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Being able to create consistent solutions to frequent problems. Things that can be done over and over, unlike what's needed for solutions like Excel or SQL. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Journalism Data wrangler Journalist 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:50:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually ggplot2 and dplyr indexing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month creating custom html documents for sharing I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Lecturer Educator 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:52:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Confusing about the different 'flavours' of R (base, dplyr, datatable etc.) Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Radian, Visual Studio Code Yes Usually Tidyverse Surprising defaults/behaviour in some base R functions Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R Basic 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:53:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Plethora of online help, resources, and answered questions. Friendly and practical community. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Environmental Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:53:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested I am not naturally a statistician. I have a programming background with real appetite to improve my stats Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data manipulation, with roots in data.table (perhaps not a popular answer). R gives a great intermediate scale capability in terms of data size that sits beyond excel solutions (but short of “larger” data natively). I can do a lot of thing a in R with data manip that previously would have needed a surrogate database solution. Sometimes syntax isn’t strict enough (vs other languages). Suspect Dr Wickham might debate this, but I think it’s harder to pickup others code in R that other stricter languages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, GitHub Enterprise I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Microsoft Excel, R 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic C/C++ 1971 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Bermuda Insurance Research CEO Sadly, execute management primarily 9 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:54:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Getting data into R More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), vs code/radian Yes Usually Problem solving S4 ;( Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, also distill I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week As a dependency Anaconda, Conda, R, Visual Studio Code 2 4 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:55:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Reproducibility Remembering arguments for functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1974 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Professor Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:55:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job It was required for my work Findung a good Editor. When i Starter using R there was No Rstudio yet. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Diverdity of Algorithms for all problems Keras should be useable without a Python laser General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning, Cheminformatics Rdkit Anaconda, Conda, Visual Studio Code, Spyder 4 7 I expect it to increase None C64 basic 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Agrochemicals Lab Head Machine Learning Researcher 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T18:56:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually i can do anything i can think of not knowing how to do what i envision General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R-bloggers Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, creating html from which i copy paste I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, sql sql 1976 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada central banking assistant director communications 5 No, not really RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:57:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It’s simple and I love the vectorized operations The operations on the different classes should be more flexible General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Posts shared on LinkedIn Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Bash C/C++ 1992 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Health Care and Medicine App programmer/analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T18:59:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do machine learning Meta-programming (expressions, quasi quotation, etc.) Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SQL Server Machine Learning Services Yes Usually Tailored for data analysis, functional programming Dataframes constrained to the machine memory size; the fact it can't be managed in a distributed way is a strong limitation nowadays General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Data Engineering Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 8 I expect it to increase R, SQL Server Turbo Pascal 1977 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Italy Information Technologies ML & AI Practice Lead Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T18:59:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data cleaning syntax is a lot easier Some models run slower than when using SAS General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Learning Shiny right now I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to decrease Excel, SAS, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1991 Woman Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Researcher Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:00:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Databricks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Tableau, Power BI No Usually Dplyr Poor reputation from dev guys General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Datalake + Power BI / Tableau I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Confluence / Markdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Server 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, Dax SAS 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Arts and Entertainment Data practce lead Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:00:44Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Visualization 5 9 NA Yes Usually the capabilities for data visualization it can be difficult to find the answers to my questions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo twitter twitter I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month not sure, just readme? I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R NA Female Black/African, White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Research Assistant Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:00:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1993 Male Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Turkey NA NA NA NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:03:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually The no-ceremony, straight to the business attitude 1) Package management -- it's not perfect even with renv. 2) RStudio Server is quite buggy. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month only with BRMS I plan to stop using it Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Server 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Javascript, Python, R, Common Lisp, Clojure Fortran 1970 NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Information Technologies NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:04:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually Versatility ggplot2 syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, PHP, R, Visual Basic Java 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Research working student Student 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:04:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1995 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 2 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Azure No Usually So much input from users - there is typically code to help me do what I need to do There are about 20 ways to do any one thing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, creating html files to email I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Fortran 1959 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Transportation Analysis Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA NA English 2020-12-11T19:05:26Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The Tidyverse's incredibly coherent API Projects, file paths -- there's a lot of fiddly setup and configuration, even in RStudio, that makes things tricky General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Social media I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research PhD student Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:05:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data viz The user documents are horrible General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 8 I expect it to increase None SPSS 1987 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data analyst Researcher 20 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:06:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1998 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work When I started, R produced inconsistent (but statistically equiv) output on different platforms More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The consistency brought by opinionated package ecosystem historical confusion around inconsistent semantics and syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Corporate internal servers I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating Roxygenated .R scripts I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 2 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Visual Basic Fortran 1971 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research Staff Member Policy Analyst 20 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:06:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Server, SPSS Yes Usually Broad range of packages and tools Sometimes help does not written in plane English, or I just don't have enough stats knowledge to understand General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Medicine, Clinical trials R 4 9 I expect it to increase None R 1990 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Doctor Medical professional 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:06:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day NA Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Its my comfort zone For loop speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R R 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research PhD candidate Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:06:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server Yes Usually Shiny ; dplyr code debugger Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, pycharm 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, css, sass SAS 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France tech data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T19:07:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 University It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Occasionally The wide range of packages NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Interactive apps I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau R 1995 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T19:07:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud Yes Usually I just enjoy playing with data Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, by active learning in datacamp Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Education Lecturer (university) Educator 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:07:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Asst Prof Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:08:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, ArcGIS Yes Usually NA Processing large datasets in an instant General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Microsoft Excel, R, ArcGIS 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1999 Male Mixed (White/Latinx) Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research NA Student 4 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:08:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Pro Yes Occasionally Easy to convert thought into code. And fantastic graphing. More OTS production tools support python natively. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1985 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T19:09:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually functional programming + abundance of packages + culture limitation on to deploying rshiny apps to a large scale audience General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Matlab 1984 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities data scientist Data scientist or analyst 6 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T19:10:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Occasionally the RStudio IDE and documentation not knowing how to create environments like Python environments; documentation on how to write functions with dplyr/tidyverse is rare General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, GIS Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel 3 7 I expect it to stay the same HTML, CSS Visual Basic NA F Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Programmer & Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T19:11:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually The readable nature of the code that comes through using pipes Wish it could build out complex interactive websites in a way that competed with python’s Django or similar. Would move that kind of work to R completely of I could. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Media Senior Data Journalist Data scientist or analyst 8 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:12:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Usually Endless possibilities for current and future implementations within the scope of my work. In some cases there are overly complex workarounds for features that aren't currently available. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Survey analysis NA 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1990 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T19:12:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually The friendly Twitter community! NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau, SQL Java 1995 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Financial Services and Activities Business Intelligence Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:13:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, GIS applications 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Pascal Fortran 1959 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:13:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Geospatial analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, GitHub Yes Usually Community of R users online who post tutorials and answer questions Technical language can be a barrier to beginners, especially people who don't see themselves as technically-skilled General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Managing my code I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Data collection I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel Excel 1991 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:13:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Emergency project Prior experience in procedural/imperative languages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Functional programming Cryptic error messages R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating eye candy I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Go, Python, R, Rust, Haskell FORTRAN 1947 Male Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Professional and Business Services Managing Director Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T19:13:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Simulation studies 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It means I'm problem solving instead of one of the more tedious aspects of my job. Visualizing multiple scripts at once. Running multiple projects. Figuring out how to do anything parallel. People keep mentioning snowfall? General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Lazy way to make a pdf with results for collaborators. I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate Research Assistant Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:13:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually NA Speed Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Matlab, Python, R, stan Matlab 1985 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral Scholar Researcher 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T19:13:58Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Simplicity It’s not popular in my field so I don’t have a support system I can consult with. As a result, I typically have to learn on my own and generalize it for my application. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R R 1973 Male Hispanic/Latinx, Native American Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Academic Technology Coach Educator 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T19:14:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's very straightforward. I like how I can compartimentalize the steps of my problem solving. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python Java 1993 female White, Hispanic/Latinx High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Brazil Financial Services and Activities Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:14:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community Trying to keep up with new releases General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Fortran 1957 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Director of Data Science Programs Educator 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:15:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Java NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-11T19:18:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Lots of packages (wide variety) Lots of packages (too many to keep track of) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Basic (DEC PDP-11 in 1977) 1956 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 5 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:18:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally It's free Complicated General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Research Research assistant Student 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:19:22Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Modeling/machine learning 4 8 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely Integration with C and ability to parallelize code The syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R 5 9 I expect it to decrease Excel, Matlab, Python, R BBC basic 1978 Toaster White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Scientist Researcher 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:20:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Reproducibility Remembering function names General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Stata Stata 1957 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sri Lanka Education Professor Educator 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:21:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, Tableau Yes Usually Very complete ecossystem. Tidyverse já similar to English... Easy to read Not being the native language of neural nets and more dificult to produtionize models than pythob General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, R 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Portugal Accommodation and Food Services Data Analyat Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:26:43Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Tidyverse Big Data (Spark) + Deep Learning General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to increase R C/C++ NA NA Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Insurance DS Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T19:27:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually I love tidyverse not a native run-time in clouds. and high ram usage General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, r-bloggers.com, rviews.org General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, r-bloggers.com, rviews.org Email, Shinyapps.io, powerpoint, dashboard, excel I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, pycharm 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic, SQL Excel 1982 male White Some college or university, no college degree Turkey Advertising and Media Head Consultant or Advisor 5 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:27:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, nvim-r Yes Usually Ease of working with data in all aspects Working with aws, need more examples and documentation. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 7 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1969 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Utilities Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:31:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts PowerPoint I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1974 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Information Technologies Business analyst Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T19:32:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally The inclusivity and friendliness of the R community Base vs Tidyverse Schism. I love Tidyverse and use it every day, but a lot of functionality seems to reinvent stuff in base for minimal gain. This creates confusion for beginners who will find multiple solutions using base or Tidyverse in places like SO. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data simulation I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R R 1989 Male White NA Australia Professional and Business Services NA Student NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:33:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility Knowing which package to use Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Databricks 2 2 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, Spotfire Matlab 1975 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T19:34:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Competing ecosystems within R: base v dplyr v data.table etc Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 7 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally Rmarkdown Too many ways to skin a cat! Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Stata BASIC 1980 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Education NA Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:35:15Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Unified workflow from data management through reporting Figuring out why things aren’t working General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1989 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Senior Researcher Researcher 1 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:35:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I use it for everything data-related Some packages won't compile or work or do what I want General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, creating summary google sheets to share with specific people I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R SAS 1947 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Religious organization IT Group Lead Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-11T19:35:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It’s relatively straight forward Difficult to learn new applications General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1995 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Research NA Researcher 15 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:37:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Mac and windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA Education NA Educator NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:43:27Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was helpful for my work Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The Tidyverse and its good documentation I find some documentation sparse and /or difficult to understand Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R Javascript 1982 Nonbinary White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Product designer Designer 20 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:44:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Building web applications in Shiny 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Awesome community "Dealing with people who who claim R isn't a ""real"" language" Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating PDF reports (without pagedown) I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Emacs 1 5 I expect it to increase Python, R R NA woman Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Management 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:46:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:50:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually "It doesn't ""feel"" like programming to me; my focus can be on the data and statistics questions, rather than on memory allocation or compiling or whatever." Managing packages and updates General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data, student exercises I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), colab notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Java, Javascript, Python, R, Ruby Java 1989 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:50:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Availability and ease of using advanced statistical packages and making figures great for academic journals. Handling large dataset, dates General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Rmarkdown I expect it to stay the same Three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Logo NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Research NA Statistician 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:51:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 4 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), vs code, github No Usually Coding vs clicking and functional Irregular, sometimes non helpful error messages in certain packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Business reports, feature calendar for weekly prices per item per banner I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, R, sql, mdx R 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Sales Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:52:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It's free and there is a lot of support and resources online Sometimes you get errors when installing packages and if it's not a popular package it's hard to troubleshoot how to fix that General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, RMarkdown files I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Data scraping from websites Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1990 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:52:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The format encourages incremental problem-solving while writing code which is mentally stimulating. The base R documentation, which is written in a way that's completely opaque to someone without a technical background. It's why I still don't know how to use a lot of base R syntax. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Books by Crawley, Wickham, etc General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Stack Overflow Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Keeping my code organized I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1980 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Vector Ecologist Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:53:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Regulatory water quality assessments 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Reproducibility Package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Java 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research scientist Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:53:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1986 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually flexibility opaque error messages (“object of type...”) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS assembler 1949 male White, Native American Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America retired NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:54:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities NA Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Matlab NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:55:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually ggplot2 Error messages and random kernel crashes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 9 I expect it to decrease Excel, Javascript, Julia, PHP, Python, R, Visual Basic PHP 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Senior Manager, Data Science Management NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T19:56:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually vectorization; smart developers; awesome visualization some packages stop updating... poor documentation (not layperson friendly) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel 3 9 I expect it to increase Julia, R C/C++ 1992 Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Singapore Financial Services and Activities NA Financial professional 2 No, not really UseR conference, R Finance conference Email English 2020-12-11T19:59:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually How quickly and intuitively I can work with data The tidyverse helps a lot, but a lot of base R contains behavior that makes it frankly unsuitable for production use (type stability and such) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Very controlled database input (without giving people full database write permissions) I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mostly production use (AWS Lambda functions, Airflow, etc) Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1988 male Asian, White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Journalism Sr. Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:01:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Free, interactive, pipes, RMarkdown, cheatsheets Exporting figures General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1988 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Israel Health Care and Medicine Physician Medical professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:03:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community None Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Matlab, R Visual Basic 1964 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Research Dr Researcher 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-11T20:06:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually Free and extensive. Explaining to Python users why I use R Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, SPSS, Stata R 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research CEO Statistician 4 Neutral RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:06:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Open source None General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1966 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Taiwan Education Assistant Professor Educator 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T20:06:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Reporting 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Stata Yes Usually Diversity of packages and diversity of community Poor harmonization of base R and user-written R packages with respect to functions (arguments, order, conventions) and documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R-bloggers, RWeekly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating tabulations and tables of analysis output I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Stata BASIC, Lotus 1-2-3 NA Masculine Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional 3 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:07:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 30 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same """five""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease R Fortrun77 1976 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Japan Education NA Educator 0 Neutral UseR conference, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:07:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 Mostly trial and error, with the emphasis on error. I needed an affordable alternative to SAS for my students Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The community help in solving problems The lack of clear explanation for example code in help files General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, My students I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, General academic writing I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Basic (in the ‘70s) 1957 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor of Aquatic Ecology Educator 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:08:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Dplyr The error messages are sometimes hard to understand especially if the error is a first-time one. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, R, Shiny Server 5 10 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R Visual Basic 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 6 Neutral Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T20:08:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually powerful machine learning, great visualisations, easy access to life science data, RStudio, and above all else the R community Nobody where I work uses R as much as I do so I don't get local collaboration General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R, SQL Pascal 1965 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Education lecturer Educator 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference Email English 2020-12-11T20:08:46Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Stats class It was part of a course I took NA Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, Matlab R 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA Student 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:09:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Understanding evaluation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The power and usability for my work in data science ce Dealing with messy code Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Azure Devops I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SQL Python 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data scientist NA 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:10:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning programming/workflow best-practices More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually The community is so helpful and focused on making learning accessible for everyone. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau SPSS 1982 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T20:13:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually 1) The jubilation when my code actually does what I want it to. 2) The data analysis and visualization products it can produce, shiny especially It can be hard to find help for the nit picky details of how to make a plot or a shiny user interface look. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Decision Support I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, R, Visual Basic Excel 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining Post doctoral fellow Researcher 4 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:16:01Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually easy to read and understand the multiple and small window frames in RStudio General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts i don't I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None R 1982 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Malaysia Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:23:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2001 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Can get some useful analysis done quickly (with Tidyverse) Old-style “S syntax” General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Writing internal documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation NA 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, SQL HP 2000 BASIC , FOCAL 1961 M White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Engineer Software developer 2 No, not really Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:24:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Media Mix Modeling (marketing analytics) 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Reproducibility Interfacing with lower level languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Julia, Python, R Java 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Analyst, Predictive Analytics Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T20:25:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Tidyverse, and the community online Lack of support for integration at work General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1985 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Non-Profit Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:28:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The tidyverse unhelpful documentation for base functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R Weekly Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Websites using Distill for RMd I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, I am writing a Shiny-based package I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Stata BASIC 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Research Senior Associate Researcher 10 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:34:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually It's the fastest path for me to implement a wide variety of statistical analyses quickly and transparently Regression table creation, particularly interfacing with latex General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R R 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:35:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The ease of reproducibility and flexibility of the services. Becoming so excited about it that it makes it difficult to talk to colleagues at times. But really the entrance curve into R can be high so it feels like needing to convince people to try it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Graduate Student Student 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:37:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Functional programming Data handling Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1987 Female Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Mexico Research Spatial analyst Data scientist or analyst 4 Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:39:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Easy to do many different analyses, re-use of code Finding the right DPI / image size and label/from proportions when creating figures General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, R, SPSS, C64 ASM C64 Basic, C64 ASM 1976 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Senior Researcher Researcher 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:40:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually RStudio is the best IDE for exploratory analysis and plotting Memory limits when working with large data files General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Documenting exploratory analysis I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Tableau 2 4 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1990 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:40:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1987 Female Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Postdoc Software developer 3 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:43:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to learn Only one IDE to work with General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, R Javascript 1995 He Bangladeshi Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Bangladesh Not Employed NA Student NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:45:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Trying to figure out workflow and effective management of complex data. More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Flexibility and the community. Often many answers to skin a cat. I also find it very difficult to figure out workflow especially for reproducible science. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Videos from R studio conferences and data science meet-ups. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Stata Excel 1985 Woman (She/her) Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Phd student Student 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:50:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually trust statistical packages more worry it is not respected as much by people in data science only using Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0 2 7 I expect it to increase Python, R SAS 1982 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:50:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually tidyverse syntax and brms Integrating work done in R into production systems that are mainly in other languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Writing reports to share with team I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Text processing Conda, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Perl NA Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T20:52:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to stay the same None R 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Statistician Statistician 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T20:53:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials, Financial analysis 5 7 Microsoft Excel, Python Yes Usually Large numbers of statistical packages S3 and S4 types Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month I use knitr instead to create reports I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Clinical trials, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, R 3 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Python, R Matlab 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T20:53:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The ability to manipulate data using is simple NSE. Please make this go away - it’s killing R. There are no blockers in Python like this. It’s a pain to grok and impossible to remember. I feel like I have to re-learn NSE every time I trip over it. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Notebooks, R Markdown to PDF or MS Word I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code, Vim, Tmux, Splunk and JSON 2 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, Bash, Awk, Sed Perl NA NA NA Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) United States of America Cybersecurity Executive Director Product Manager 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T20:57:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Try to achieve the same thing that was done with diff. tools. e.g excel I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning the RStudio development environment Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Pipe Operator; Straight-Foward Syntax; Add-Ins e.g Scheduler; Flexdashboard, Shiny, Great Library Contribution; Easy Setup at Step 0; Can write Python and R together in one single file without the needs to change Kernell, R-Interface Stack Library, R Markdown... YAML Header inside R Markdown File, Cannot insert R Code Chunk in R file like it RMD format. Quite hard to customize R Markdown/Flexdashboard UI/HTML Template while Shiny has options to do it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Learn R Source Code at Github General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML Dashboard with Flexdashboard I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic, Power Shell C/C++ 1988 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA NA English 2020-12-11T20:57:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Occasionally It helps me get things done. The community is great. Whenever I have a new task to complete, there's usually already multiple R packages that address the problem. Cross-platform file paths General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Conda, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Software developer 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T20:57:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Becoming a package developer More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, building reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, web scraping R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 3 5 I expect it to stay the same R, SQL R 1991 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) China Information Technologies data mining engineer Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:00:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally It is versatile Lack of pointers that I'm used to in C rseek.org Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R, SAS Fortran IV 1961 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Ranger Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T21:03:28Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research Junior researcher Researcher 1 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T21:07:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 DataCamp is my primary source of learning, followed by blogs and books I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Community and welcoming R fraternity is one the best things about R Installing packages on Linux. It takes ages, plus managing the linux dependencies is a challenge and take much time to setup. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Financial analysis, Data Engineering Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau R 1983 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Oman Professional and Business Services Manager - Risk Advisory Consultant or Advisor 3 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T21:09:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Spatial 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Documentation is generally easy to understand and makes implementing new packages and functions easy Ambiguous error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Social media like twitter, knitting into HTMLS I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Knitting into htmls to share reports or results I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1996 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Graduate research assistant Student 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:10:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Server, SAS 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic Maple 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Utilities Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-11T21:10:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Downloading and installing the software Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Easy to use the command line interface Not many resources on deploying R code to the cloud like Azure General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Matlab 1993 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Singapore Telecommunications Senior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T21:14:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Fun NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Excel 1993 Male Indian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research Statistical assistant Statistician 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:14:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, API requests 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Snowflake DBI Yes Usually Versatility HTML/XML parsing is not as straight forward as it is in Python, say General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, API, HTML/XML parsing PyCharm Community 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau COLOR BASIC 1976 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America FinTech Database Marketing Manager Data Analyst / DB Developer 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:16:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, GitHub issues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, GitHub search Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Packages submitted to CRAN I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R Excel 1996 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education Graduate Research Assistant Student 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:17:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 6 Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, R Java NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:17:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 3 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Able to do large amount of things, often multiple ways Figuring out how to correctly code one of those way General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1969 f White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) ecologist Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:18:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Rarely Syntax Concurrency General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Windows com protocol R, Shiny Server 1 1 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Go, R C/C++ 1994 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Financial Services and Activities Asset manager Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:19:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Data visualization domain-specific data formats General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Genomics local scripts 3 7 I expect it to stay the same R Python 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Research Assistant Professor Researcher 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:19:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface I don't use R any more Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 3 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely The coding and statistics The case sensitive coding General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS C/C++ 1974 Female Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Portugal Research Post doc Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-11T21:20:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Debugging, solving errors, and unexpected behaviors More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Stata, Winpython, Spyder, VScode, Miniconda Yes Usually RStudio IDE; shiny package; R Notebook / RMarkdown; reticulate package; magrittr pipe operator; plotly package; tidyverse ecosystem; data.table package; DT package; dbplyr package; DBI package; R community; www.rdocumentation.org Lack of good symbolic math packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, I'm looking forward to Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Retrieving financial data from Investing.com using investpy module Conda, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Stata Excel 1985 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T21:21:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Simplicity, package documentation, R studio lack of integration and flexibility like python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1982 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Chile Professional and Business Services Asociate vice president data analytics Data scientist or analyst 20 No, not really Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:24:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating internal reports. Also assembling figured into one document for easy internal references. I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel R 1997 Woman White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Research Data Analyst Associate Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:26:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Open source, many general purpose packages outside of just statistics/math "Lack of centralized ""standard"" documentation for base R, kind of like how every package in the tidyverse is very well documented with all the functions, what they do, and detailed examples of usage. I've been using R for a few years now and I am still constantly learning new things that can be done in base R that I never even knew existed. I feel as if I learn a lot of base R techniques by ""word of mouth"" like reading on a random website/stack overflow rather than actually going through documentation." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Class notes, handouts in pdf format. For when I need a latex document that also includes code and output I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month General purpose NA 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Education Teaching assistant/research assistant Student 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:27:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Very helpful, inclusive and fun community, and always a package that will fit your needs. Not popular enough - require explaining outside data science circles. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1991 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Information Technologies Consultant Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:29:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Analysis reports rmarkdown 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally rmarkdown, combination of experimental data with analysis NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating reports with knitr (pdf or word) I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1977 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany NA NA Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:37:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Report writing 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually All steps of analysis are documented. There's a package for everything. Some packages are poorly documented. Sometimes there are breaking changes in package functions. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating analysis reports I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Basic 1979 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Russia Education Senior lecturer Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:41:10Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA Upgrading/Replicating base R & packages between versions/environments General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, In built documentation using ? General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts PDF, PNG/jpg export. I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R BASIC 1987 Male Asian, White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Information Technologies Operations Manager Operations 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:42:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually R Markdown for creating reports and presentations NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS R 1991 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Quantitative Analyst Financial professional 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:42:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 8 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There are a lot of great packages to conduct the latest modern analysis. Recently, I sometimes feel that R is inferior to Python, especially in machine learning, and that makes me sad. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 1 5 I expect it to increase R C/C++ 1984 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Japan Health Care and Medicine Postdoctoral Researcher Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:43:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Crowd Support and packages Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Cranberries Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1977 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Education Assistant professor Educator 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T21:44:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The tremendous support available for doing statistical analysis. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Homebrew 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Perl Pascal 1983 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Indonesia Research Research consultant Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:44:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually it's great for statistics (natural vector, matrix focus); also like the direction of tidyverse often packages are not documented precisely enough; often it's not easy to find packages or know about already implemented, packaged solutions; at my level it is often tricky to understand underlying code in various packages (so a barrier for learning and improving) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R R 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Research Officer Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T21:45:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Shinyapps.io, Tableau, PowerBI Yes Usually I can do everything in R — data cleaning, statistical analysis, mapping/reporting/visualization. I’m struggling to understand how to write functions. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau, PowerBI Excel 1988 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T21:45:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Python 1991 NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Accommodation and Food Services NA Management NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:46:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA Research NA Statistician NA No, not really NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T21:48:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually ability to make high quality visualizations and maintain a reproducible workflow There are so many ways to do the same thing, sometimes it is hard to know what is correct. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, internal reports I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month creating html reports to document or consolidate result I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1987 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Research Technologist Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T21:49:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Complete ecosystem from data acquisition to reporting results Learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Visual Basic Excel 1980 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Education NA Student 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T21:50:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities R usage in production Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, ETL 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Community contribution Nil Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Passing code I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Power BI Excel 1980 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Malaysia Natural Resources and Mining Petroleum Engineer Consultant or Advisor 2 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T21:50:15Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning the RStudio development environment Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 3 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 2.0 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R Excel 1999 NA White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Not Employed NA Student NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:50:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials, Financial analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually simplicity It some time get ideal and its slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R Matlab 1996 M Asian High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Nepal Not Employed NA Student NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:50:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse Managing dependencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R NA 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Professional and Business Services Professional enablement Data scientist or analyst 100 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:51:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 7 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1977 Male Asian, White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Utilities NA Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:52:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Shinyapps.io Yes Usually can do a lot with a little NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, R R 1988 non-binary White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) data visualization specialist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:53:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 2 4 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Tableau Visual Basic 1977 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Professor Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:55:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The autocomplete for variable names and parentheses Having to update/version packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same SAS Matlab 1990 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Research Biostatistician Statistician 15 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:56:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Computational thinking More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Concise and wide variety of solutions. Feels as though what I can do in one line in R, I need six lines in Python. The slow for loops and the need for vectorization. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Julia, R R 1994 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Maldives Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research Analyst Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:56:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Statistical power Importing large data General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing Microsoft Excel, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS C/C++ NA Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Any Director Consultant or Advisor 12 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T21:57:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibility Mixing syntaxes Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Research manager Administration 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:57:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) Analyzing dairy farm data for clients Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Efficient data cleaning and excellent visualization options Steep learning curve when you don’t work in a field in which many people use it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Online courses Slide presentations and pdfs I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Knit to pdf I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1990 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Veterinary medicine/agriculture Veterinarian Medical professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:57:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Research Phd Student 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:58:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually ggplot is my favorite visualization package data types General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, LaTeX Python 2000 Woman White, Hispanic/Latinx Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Student NA Student NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:58:42Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Both the ease of statically analysis from cleaning to presentation and the community. I have a hard time really connecting it to things, websites, GitHub... I know the functionality is there, it's just not easy for me. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Tableau Excel 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Epidemiologist Management 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T21:59:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks 2 3 I expect it to increase R R 1986 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Korea, South Information Technologies data analyst, educator Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2020-12-11T22:00:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1984 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Japan Professional and Business Services data scientist Data scientist or analyst 7 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:02:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually R is open-source and also there are so many packages being pushed to CRAN/GitHub everyday. The fact that it is possible to install and use packages from GitHub / ext sources is the best thing about R. Sometimes, it is difficult to wrangle data in R. So I have to use Python. But that's not a problem General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1999 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Sports Data Engineer Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:04:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, Databricks 3 3 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1985 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies NA Management NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:04:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1999 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course To move from S-plus Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) No Occasionally Power for statistical analysis How the language is bifurcating with the tidyverse. It is becoming 2 languages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Custom analytics UI I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Jupyter Notebooks 1 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R Basic (Commodore) 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies NA Researcher 1000 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:05:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis, Extract and manipulate pdf and scanned document 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The packages provide solution that I need, RStudio is awesome, shiny for dashboarding so no need external application outside R, reticulate package to use python inside RStudio, and the community None General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts From my desktop to present dashboard, generate report I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1976 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Indonesia Holding Company with several business units Internal Auditor Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, definitely R Finance conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:07:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, R Markdown 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually tidyverse R is losing Data Science market share to Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R’s built-in help system General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Literate programming I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Non-profit Research & Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:07:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 NA Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1971 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor of Sociology Educator NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:08:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually functional programming style none General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS Visual Basic 1974 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Pakistan Education Associate Professor Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-11T22:09:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Javascript, R C/C++ NA 1985 Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Education Assistant professor Educator NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:11:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually User friendly, easy to programing Finding the right package, the results are not printed in nice table format. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Biostatistician Manager Statistician 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T22:12:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community support. Versatility. Constant learning I have problems keeping files and data tables organized General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1965 Male Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Assistant Professor of Medicine Medical professional 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:13:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally Base R has a lot of functions for data cleaning, data manipulation, and initial plotting and summary stats; I don't have to download extra libraries, unlike Python Obscure error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating reports in HTML I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 6 I expect it to increase R SPSS 1985 Female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:14:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Its stable "NA" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, Tableau SAS 1968 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Education Academic Instructor Educator 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-11T22:15:37Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, DataCamp Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1994 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) China Professional and Business Services NA Consultant or Advisor NA I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:17:08Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Managing packages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Powerful in data manipulation Download too many packages to do all that I need General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, SPSS 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel NA NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T22:19:32Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Powerful Difficult to get started. R documentation is difficult General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Tableau, Sql FORTRAN 1968 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Natural Resources and Mining Forester / Forest Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T22:22:43Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It has a range of packages Computationally slow and data required to be in memory General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io 2 4 I expect it to stay the same R Java 1988 Female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Lecturer Statistician 10 Yes, definitely rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:28:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Bash No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Anaconda, Conda 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Bash R 1994 Male Asian, White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Academia (PhD student) PhD student Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:30:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually community, recourses, new tools, ease of use lack of interactivity in visualizations/dashboards General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Clinical trials Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R Javascript 1990 F White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T22:30:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Modeling/machine learning 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I plan to stop using it Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to stay the same R Java 1980 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Information Technologies NA Management NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-11T22:32:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Power BI Yes Usually The community. The just not anything close to it in any other programming language. NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating Word documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, DAX Matlab 1985 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Manager, Analytics Development Management 20 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:33:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Geospatial 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually quality of libraries somewhat career limiting vs other languages. Less so in NA, but currently in Asia and much less widely used vs say python. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1988 m White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Singapore Information Technologies economist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:33:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually The vast collection of open source packages Still don't 100% understand various data types General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Python 1987 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Scientist Bioinformatician 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T22:36:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Everything Peoples opinion of it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R R 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities NA Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:37:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 JupyterHub, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Packages designed to be part of an evolving ecosysten Not sure Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Html dashboards, not with flex I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Document generation Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterHub 3 10 I expect it to increase Javascript R 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Financial Services and Activities Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:38:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Matlab, R C/C++ 1983 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Information Technologies CEO Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:38:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Usually The fact that there is an ever evolving ecosystem of packages such as tidyverse and tidymodels that make data science much easier. The overwhelming number of packages that makes it difficult to find the best package for the job. It would be nice to have a gallery of most used packages for different tasks such as table creation, graph preparation, machine learning, etc. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Just for some libraries that are not available in R (e.g., ffmpeg-python) Microsoft Excel, R, Tableau 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, R, Tableau Excel 1992 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate Research Assistant Researcher 10 Yes, definitely UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T22:39:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) Yes Usually automation and building shiny applications some syntax logic is not natively intuitive General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R, SPSS Excel 1980 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Professional and Business Services Manager of People Analytics Management 30 No, not really RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:42:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community The jargon General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None Basic on a trs-80 !! 1969 Nale White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Physician Medical professional 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:46:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Changing from S-plus to R More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Rarely command line, graphics nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, R, Visual Basic Algol NA NA Prefer not to answer One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree New Zealand Not Employed NA Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Rbloggers English 2020-12-11T22:48:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Doctoral Student Student 2 Yes, definitely NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-11T22:49:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually open source, great online resources and community of users "understanding different data types all the brackets required for making loops (versus matlab syntax, for example)" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda 4 9 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R Python 1993 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research Research Associate Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:51:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Big alount of packages Not object oriented (no classes) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Javascript, R Java 1969 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Information Technologies Senior developer Software developer 200 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:55:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Jmp Yes Usually Markdown and rstudio. Rstudio is so much better than sas. Markdown does away with copy and paste and allows for reproducibilty. Multiple object types and figuring out how to get what i need out of them. I still dont even understand the matchit object. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS SAS 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Statistician Statistician 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:56:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The rstudio integration with git Knitting pdf errors in rmarkdown Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Stack overflow Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R Python 1995 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD fellow Student 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:57:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Server No Usually Integrated function documentation and abundance of online help NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Accessing internal organizational data using a purpose built Python module Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Server 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Senior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:57:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually Free / open source, Modern statistical methods Many poorly documented packages, Fragmentation of approaches (base vs tidyverse) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SPSS C/C++ 1967 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Professional and Business Services Statistician Statistician 10 No, not really NA R-bloggers English 2020-12-11T22:58:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 5 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Powerful analysis of tabular data. No one in software recognizes it as a real language. Can't fine devops people who know what to do with it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Github issues community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Java 1991 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Insurance Software Engineer Software developer 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T22:58:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job Our lab uses it so I learned to use it too. Also because I like how it graphs things better than python or excel. Remembering how to do literally anything when I open a new R session Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 3 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Pretty plots "I never learned it ""properly"" and don't have the patience to so I actually don't understand anything about data types and get lost in pages upon pages of Google search results when trying to figure out how to do the one thing I want to do to my data." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora "When the site i find that says ""we used X package to do the thing you want to do"", I download it. But I dont go seeking packages, I go seeking solutions to my problems and find packages along the way." Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Slack I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week I was just told that you should use Rmarkdown. So I always open and work in an Rmarkdown when I open Rstudio. I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing, Genomics NA 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1992 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Graduate student Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T22:58:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses how to use R's capability to structure data and models to build multiple models and tune them in parallel Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually easy to get to results without a lot of programming stuck at intermediate - don't see a clear path forward to become an expert General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RStudio Connect site run by my organization, RMarkdown report in html format in emails I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, share results I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code, Wingware Wing IDE 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, gawk C/C++ 1966 male Asian One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Financial Services and Activities AVP Systems Engineer 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T22:59:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually It's easy to extract data from basically any source It's not especially well supported in commercial deployment environments General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, rseek General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, rseek Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Visual Studio Code 2 5 I expect it to increase Javascript, R Excel 1987 male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:01:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Microsoft Excel No Rarely The concise but readable syntax and wealth of specialized packages The lack of interest from colleagues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Company network drive I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Writing basic ad hoc documentation (not using pkgdown) I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic, C# BASIC 1986 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Professional and Business Services Data Analytics Developer Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:01:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Using R with other tools and services/ not a supported language. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Community, documentation, package development, meta programming Trying to put an app into production. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Github Personal blog or web site owned by you, Slack, internal server I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Project management I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Still learning!/ Api development Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code, Vim 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1989 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Professional and Business Services Accounting coordinator Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:03:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), SAS, Shiny Server Yes Usually writing blog with bolgdown package processing big data Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1990 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) China Financial Services and Activities Financial analysist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference, R Finance conference community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-11T23:06:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually It does almost anything I could want to do and is always getting better. Sometimes the specific function documentation isn’t well explained enough for me. I would like to know much more than what is given in some of the documentation. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 3 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R R 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Not Employed NA Student 20 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:08:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau, MicroscoftVisual studio code Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau R 1988 Woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:10:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R packages Not being able to decipher error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, Mapping Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1986 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Housing Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:10:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I make video courses for LinkedIn Learning I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Processing 1967 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-11T23:12:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Part of a course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually It's free and I can collaborate with colleagues Occasional issues with loading packages from Github General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating internal reports for preliminary results I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS SAS 1981 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research biostatistician Statistician 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:15:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually I have yet to find a problem or puzzle I couldn't solve using R -- even if I use Python, I access it via {reticulate}. Memory limitations. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating training materials for colleagues. I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Selenium -- Python's {selenium} seems far more stable and usable than {rselenium}. Also use it to send Outlook emails in my organization ({blastula} doesn't work for us). Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R, SQL SQL 1984 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Epidemiologist/Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:16:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually open source, packages, great data manipulation and data viz error messages, data types/base r syntax still a bit confusing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week NA NA 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Javascript, Python, R R 2000 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Education Student Student 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:17:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 8 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code 3 3 I expect it to stay the same Julia, R Ruby NA NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Japan Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:19:31Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally It seems like there are no limits to what R can do. The availability of so many packages is sometimes overwhelming. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents for project summary reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS SAS 1995 Female Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Research area specialist Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:22:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Building web applications 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually I can literally accomplish anything NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Visual Basic 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-11T23:22:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work The R community is small compared to python, it's difficult to get answers to my questions More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually The ease of data manipulation using packages like dplyr, I love ggplot, Shiny is something that I have started to like. I'm impressed with RStudio server and the options that it provides to use python, bash, sql under one notebook. It shows the love that the RStudio team has on open source. The memory issues , the speed of execution while using big data and the support for deep learning packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Server 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1989 Male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Financial Services and Activities Sr Analyst Data scientist or analyst 20 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-11T23:25:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, SAS Yes Usually Versatility Integrated documentation not great (stackoverflow much better) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization NA 3 6 I expect it to stay the same R R 2000 male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America NA NA Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:25:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually The ability to do data cleaning, analysis, visualization and presentation (rmd) of results all inside the same software. It's not necessarily intuitive; it's hard to learn best practices because standards are always changing; it's hard to know the best packages to use for a certain task because those, too, are always changing. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Our main method: Knit markdown documents as html hosted on S3. I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1976 female White MFA United States of America News Data Editor Journalist 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:29:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The simplicity Error messages are not clear Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Java 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Information Technologies Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 No, not really RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:30:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro No Usually Better visualizations, reached faster and more easily! It's fundamentally changed my relationship with data, and the kind of experiments I do. Being able to share analyses with R Shiny is also incredible. Still struggling to find consistent Shiny best practices and documentation, though the new Mastering Shiny has helped with this! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, automating common data handling tasks for all members of my research team to access. I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Conda, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro 4 10 I expect it to increase R R 1993 Female/non-binary Asian, White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Graduate Student Researcher 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:39:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Simplicity Error documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Medicine Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Julia, Python, R, Tableau Java 1974 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Mexico Education Full time professor Educator 50 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:42:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Great community, easy to learn for someone who doesn't have programming background Hassle to send it into production Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Visual Basic 1993 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Indonesia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:44:45Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Medicine 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Versatility! I find it quite difficult, especially when you don’t know where a problem exactly is General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None I am just getting started learning programming 1983 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Italy Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional 0 No, not really R Medicine conference R-bloggers English 2020-12-11T23:46:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Gitlab Yes Usually It is awesome for data manipulation and visualization. Slow processing time for big models and harder to make nice maps than ESRI products General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Python 1993 Man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Quantitative Ecology Independent Contractor Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:47:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Visualizations Coding hiccups General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1989 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Assistant professor Researcher 1 Yes, definitely NA Facebook English 2020-12-11T23:48:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job data visualization Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Shiny web apps 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Versatility. Simplicity and elegance. RStudio IDE. Amazing R community and support. R-Ladies. rOpenSci. Speed of running as compared to languages such as shell, C, C++, Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, sometimes R-Ladies help on slack General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Unix/shell scripting C/C++ 1984 F Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Asst Professor Researcher 50 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-11T23:52:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding sources about good R programming practices More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Tidyverse logic for extensive data cleaning/analysis scripts Issues with floating point numbers (hard to detect sometimes). Occasional lack of confidence in how thoroughly statistical methods are implemented in R packages. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Empirical studies using the package PsychTestR I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R Java 1987 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research PhD student Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-11T23:53:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Flexible Some packages using a really different method from SAS and producing different results General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 7 I expect it to increase R, SAS SPSS 1993 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Student 1 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-11T23:55:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Online community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, twitter Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1983 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Education NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:00:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Databricks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually pretty simple to download and go when things go wrong, they really go wrong General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Visual Studio Code 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R Matlab 1991 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Utilities analyst/consultant Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:02:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Downloading and installing the software NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors R packages built for search such as the sos package Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same four Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I plan to stop using it Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 8 I expect it to increase Matlab Matlab 1980 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education data amalyst Educator 10 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-12T00:05:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 8 RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Fast learning rate Obscure error codes and low speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1987 MALE White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research R&D manager Researcher 1 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:08:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Power and flexibility Memory dependence General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R basic NA NA NA NA NA Research NA Data scientist or analyst NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-12T00:10:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Community NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to decrease R R 1993 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Malaysia Research Data scientist Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:12:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Open source, easy to find tutorials on how to use packages that make learning easier, wonderful community online, visualization & communication power with ggplot and shiny, intermediary between pure stats software and programming software that has best of both sometimes when packages aren’t maintained / things change with a new version of R it can be frustrating but that’s mostly on me for relying too much on packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R Visual Basic 1995 woman White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education Graduate Student Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:16:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python Yes Occasionally Fun to use NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase He'll Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1992 M Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Manufacturing Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:18:06Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually A lot of packages Not consistent in the way write command for each package General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, Tableau, Visual Studio Code 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Matlab 1995 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Vietnam Information Technologies data analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, rOpenSci Unconf, R Finance conference, PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-12T00:18:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 All of the above I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually The expressiveness, functional-ness, and statistical-ness! Debugging piped workflows Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Prototyping I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation R, RStudio Server 1 5 I expect it to increase None R 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:19:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse Not general purpose language General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Transportation Logistics Engineer Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T00:19:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 5 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally "ggplot2 for plots data.table for data wrangling speed" "Python has nicer data structures. Tidyverse is slow and has way too many dependencies. Working with dates is difficult. Object oriented programming is lacking compared to Python. No packages stand out as best practice for machine learning / predictive modelling pipelines." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Building internal packages Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SQL R 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Information Technologies Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:21:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Flexibility in processes with packages Inefficient RAM usage General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Custom data filtering by others so they don't have to ask me I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS Perl 1988 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Bioinformatician Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:29:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally It's an open Software .... NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Internal use only I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R BASIC 1950 male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Japan Professional and Business Services President and CEO Consultant or Advisor 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-12T00:30:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 Academic master in biostatistics It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS R 1961 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Health Care and Medicine PhD Researcher NA Yes, definitely NA Rbloggers English 2020-12-12T00:30:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Whatever new work or side project I'm trying to work on, there are always packages and learning resources available to be able to find help about how to get started. The downside to the breadth and diversity of packages and tools that are available is that there can be inconsistency, issues with interoperability, and a need to learn different ways of doing things. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, PHP, R, HTML, CSS BASIC 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Professional and Business Services Union Organiser (part-time), also working on side projects in data analysis, visualisation and modelling for a political organisation Consultant or Advisor 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-12T00:36:29Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 8 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views NA I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab Fortran 77 NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Manufacturing Simulation engineer Technical engineering 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:36:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views LinkedIn learning I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week raspberry pi NA 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, PHP, Python, R C/C++ 1958 male Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education author Educator 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:39:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Online resources incl tidytuesday, r bloggers, a lot of good people sharing ideas about how to do something. It is hard to discern between packages that provide some of the same functions. It is hard to figure out what is an out of date approach, or a newer better to use approach General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, I find it hard to discover new packages. Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Python NA female White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really RStudio::conf, PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-12T00:40:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Stata Yes Occasionally Unending possibilities Too much to learn General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SPSS, Tableau, Stata Excel 1986 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Kenya Research Research consultant Researcher 0 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:42:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse!! Speed and memory issues . Challenges in productionising. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R 3 5 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1990 M indian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T00:48:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was part of a course I took I was teach the hard way first More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Is it my second langage now ; the community Managing the updates General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Matlab 1994 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Research NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T00:48:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually When I can get simple tings done using Tidyverse and get nice plots. When writing my own algorithms R is slow and frustrating. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, I have a few books and also read the package documentation. Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Go, Javascript, Python, R CBM Basic v2 (Commodore Vic 20) 1972 Male White Some college or university, no college degree Norway Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior advisor Consultant or Advisor 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:50:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Excel 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Research Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T00:53:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Flexibility in doing complex statistics NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1969 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Financial Services and Activities Founder Financial professional 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Finance conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:00:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The simplicity Error messages are not clear Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Java 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Information Technologies Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 No, not really RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:09:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Diversity and ease to install packages; ease to find solutions online when debugging I always struggle to transform the data to have the proper input for ggplot General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Genomics None 5 7 I expect it to stay the same NA Perl and Pascal 1981 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Research Engineer Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:11:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually Community & support around it Lists and poor documentation Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Research publication & social media I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS, Tableau SPSS 1986 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Pakistan Education Assistant Professor Educator 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:13:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community, open source new packages, the tidyverse is INCREDIBLE. Not applicable. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Tidyverse documentation is outstanding. Tidyverse.org Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1986 Male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:14:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Yes Usually I enjoy the fact that I can do everything in one script, make a query, process data, use a model and make a shiny app for visualization more speed sometimes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, R, Polynote 1 1 I expect it to increase R Pascal 1984 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Romania Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-12T01:16:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It’s efficiency for data analysis and it’s reproducibility. Not everyone is using it (but that’s their mistake :P) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Text processing Anaconda, Conda 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1990 Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research fellow Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:17:43Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Quick for statistical analysis and visualization Hard to say, usually it's with oddities with specific packages themselves. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Python 1987 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T01:20:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Actuarial predictive analytics exam It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Functional programming Steep learning curve. R books and the built-in help Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) At the moment I’m still learning so I don’t need to I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SAS, Visual Basic Pascal 1979 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Insurance Senior Actuarial Analyst Actuarial Student/Analyst 5 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-12T01:23:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse & Rstudio crash in Rstudio General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day creating HTML file I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 7 I expect it to increase R SPSS 1980 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Japan Professional and Business Services NA Researcher 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:23:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Real world evidence analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Plaon old html reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, Python, R Basic 1975 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Finland Health Care and Medicine Senior Statistician Statistician 8 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:25:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities None, I loved this Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau, Power BI Yes Usually Best IDE, easy to learn for non-programmers, great Statistical analysis capabilities It's losing popularity for Machine Learning, data science and deep learning. As a trainer, I need to move on to what people want to learn. It's been months, I've taught R and I miss it Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Excel 1984 Female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Education Corporate Trainer Educator NA Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T01:27:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 University I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually RMarkdown """Object of type closure is not subsettable""" Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Text processing, Genomics Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R, SAS R 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Healthcare Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:28:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Modeling/machine learning 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse, Stack Overflow breadth General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1958 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Financial Services and Activities Owner Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:28:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic Matlab 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Actuary Manager Management 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:29:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, R 3 10 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, Python, R, Stata Stata 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Health Care and Medicine Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:30:28Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Open source, libraries, community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None I am just getting started learning programming 1988 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Natural Resources and Mining lead specialist Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:33:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Automation 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Pluto.jl Yes Rarely Easy to learn, language designed for data structures by default "Single threaded by default, tidyverse vs others ""war""..." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic, Perl, Bash Excel 1985 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Lithuania Financial Services and Activities Financial advisor Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:34:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Browser (Rstudio Server) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server No Usually Flexibility, Open source Growing monopoly of rstudio General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R Rats 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Austria Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:38:28Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Java, Matlab, Python, R Java 1995 Man White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Iceland Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Student 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T01:39:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Very beginner for non programmers. The simplicity is everything is wrapped in a function ...Just pass the parameters and get the results. People talk Python for production. R need to build up for production and Torch( like PyTorch) improvement need to happen little faster as Keras make bulky and slow Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 3 I expect it to increase C/C++, R R 1984 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Manufacturing Senior Digital Innovation Engineer - Data Science Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T01:51:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Simple and clean Slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1993 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Information Technologies Planning Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T01:53:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Being closer to 70 years old than 30 years. Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Pipes, tidyverse and graphics Controlling typing.....,., General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Fortran, turbo pascal, PICK IMP/sIMPl 1952 Male White, Ulster Scot One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree New Zealand Not Employed NA Retired NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T01:53:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 6 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing NA 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Go, R, SPSS, Stata Stata 1985 M Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Research NA NA 2 No, not at all NA NA English 2020-12-12T01:58:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts documents, reports, presentations (company internal) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1973 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing VP Applied Technology Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T02:05:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course All, way faster than excel Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Science! 5 10 RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Line by line execution with piping Packages updates and r versions. I work on a VPN and in 6 years I haven’t been able to configure my package repo properly. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Stack answers Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month GIS Arcgis 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Matlab, PHP, Python, R Java 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research Climate and Hydrology Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:06:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Clinical trials Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ NA NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T02:06:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), VS Code; radian No Usually Tidy evaluation; pipes Packages polluting the namespace. library(...) can be dangerous when masking functions from other packages, but manually using package::function() makes it hard to tell which packages are used in a script without reading the entire script General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, tidyverse package websites General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Basic HTML pages and PDFs for university assignments I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Computer vision; non-data science tasks (eg. interfacing with sensors); data science tasks that I need packaged into a portable application (eg. with pyinstaller) Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R Javascript 1999 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education Graduate student Student NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:12:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, MS SQL Server No Usually Cleaning data and data visualization NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Keeping work notes in one place. I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, SQL Basic NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-12T02:18:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Python, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Shiny, ggplot2, tidyverse, rmarkdown Consumes a lot of memory, obstacles to put in production General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Internal documents and PoC I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month ETL, Airflow R, Apache Airflow 5 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Javascript, Python, R, Bash QBasic 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Transportation Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T02:19:53Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually learning new things i dont know the syntax quite well yet so im having trouble understanding errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Croatia Education assistant Educator 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:22:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually How good it works for interactive development (Read-Evaluate-Print Loop!) Lack of proper big integer support General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:23:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It’s easy to use Debugging errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1989 Male Middle East Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Student Student 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:23:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Dbplyr making complex sql so easy Confusing tracebacks General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1984 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Arts and Entertainment Head of Data Science Management 4 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:24:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), GraphPad Yes Usually how amazing and helpful is the R community; and elegance and simpliness of code compared to other languages usually it takes lots of googling to find to which package particular function belongs to General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, preparing reports (scientific analysis) for colleagues I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation R, PyCharm 1 1 I expect it to decrease Excel, R Turbo Pascal 1994 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Research PhD student Student 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:24:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to write repeatable scripts Difficult to decode error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1982 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities BI Delivery Manager Management 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T02:25:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested No particular obstacle More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Web apps 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Flexibility Obscure error messages (especially in Shiny) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R Slack group RWeekly, Rbloggers RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R Visual Basic 1988 Male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant professor Educator 1 Yes, definitely NA Rbloggers English 2020-12-12T02:26:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to teach it to my students Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Stata Yes Usually It's free. Currently: when code breaks with new package versions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Stata Pascal 1968 M NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Education Prof Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:27:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Power and free to use Examples in package documentation are sometimes unclear General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS R 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Education Associate professor Researcher 5 I'm not sure NA NA English 2020-12-12T02:28:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Transport planning 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Docker, shinyproxy Yes Usually Tidyverse Performance, Multi core application General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Simple html documentation I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation NA 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Java 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Professional and Business Services Data Analyst Software developer 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:31:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The ability to do what I want to do It has a massive learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R Fortran 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Manufacturing Innovation team leader Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:33:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Rarely data visualizations and reporting hard to solve characters coding problems General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, html file rendered by rmarkdown I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week for study notes taking for reporting I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month learning and trying before, but not now I plan to stop using it I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1971 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) China Manufacturing financial controller Management 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:34:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts tecnical reports I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS SAS 1948 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Natural Resources and Mining NA Retired NA Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T02:36:31Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually It is free It is hard to learn General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase """five""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Matlab, R, RStudio Cloud, Tableau 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1966 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bulgaria Financial Services and Activities finanial analyst Consultant or Advisor 10 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T02:36:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R is very good for statistics and data visualization It is very slow with big data set General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com RPubs.com I expect it to increase 15/3 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1988 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Nigeria Research Research Fellow Student 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T02:45:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Medicine 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1984 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Germany Health Care and Medicine Physician Researcher 1 No, not really R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-12T02:47:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually Versatility and community: there’s a package for it. Steap learning curve for colleagues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data specialist Researcher 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:51:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning what best practice was. (Github, Docker, TDD, commenting) Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 5 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's easy to find and learn new data science techniques via packages on CRAN. I can't find a job at a company that uses it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Command F on the CRAN packages list, and look for vignettes Shinyapps.io, I don't, and it's been a problem. Now doing a course on how to build Shiny websites on AWS so they're not embarrassingly slow. I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Visual Studio Code 2 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1972 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Not Employed NA None NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T02:51:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The flexibility to do lots of things Error handling, specially with rmarkdown Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1971 Masculine White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Education Associate professor Educator 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:51:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Tidyverse / tidymodels consistent and general language flow Support in other tools like Databricks is second class. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), PowerBI via database I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, JupyterLab 2.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Java 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Health Care and Medicine Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:52:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 University class It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Packages and vignettes Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Linkedin Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Professional products dev within company I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Manufacturing Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T02:52:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community and modern way to work (reproducibility, collaboration, etc) NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistician Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-12T02:53:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel 1996 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Education NA Educator NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:53:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Examples and use cases for business applications Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis, Business risks, exceptions, process mining 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Quick, seamless analysis Lack of Intuitive interface for visualisation or data exploration Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Just creating replicable code I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Basic 1983 Male South asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) India Professional and Business Services Vice President Consultant or Advisor 15 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:54:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested stats More than once a day Microsoft Windows Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease C/C++, R C/C++ 1999 male Persian Some college or university, no college degree Iran Research NA Researcher 0 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T02:54:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community Computational time General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research P.h.D. Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T02:57:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data visualization Data wrangling that is much easier to do in python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Vignette documentation I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Terminal 4 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Python, R Java 1987 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Research and Teaching Assistant Student 20 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T02:57:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested When I started in 2015 I did not have a support a readily available support system so that when I got stuck it took quite a bit of time and effort to find an answer. Also, these were the days when Stack Overflow was populated by quite a few nasty-response people who I never would have thought to use as a resource. Thankfully, it is different today. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually For what I need to do (working with school systems) there has never been an instance when the R ecosystem was insufficient. I love everything about R. It is still magical to me in so many ways. Getting stuck and finding the documentation lacking---for me to figure out how to fix or use something within a package. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1956 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA NA 0 Yes, definitely NA R Bloggers English 2020-12-12T02:58:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The chain from loading data, wrangling, describing, vizualising and more and more often, modeling it. "Searching a relevant package to increase the quality of my work" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1970 man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Financial Services and Activities statistical studies officier Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T03:00:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Ecology 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Community, Online support, development, you don't need to be a computer engineer tu use it Some dependency with JAVA and other packages that creates conflicts with my OS (Ubuntu). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, RSS like twitter, linkedIn, etc I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 2 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1978 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Education Associated professor Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:03:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse Error messages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data pipeline work within my team, e.g. data fetch etc. Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau NA 1973 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Manufacturing Senior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:05:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 6 NA Yes Usually NA I occasionally find that something that works fine for others does not work for me and there is no good reason why that’s happened General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R I am just getting started learning programming 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research Research Fellow Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:06:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Syntax Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Five I don't use R Markdown NA I plan to stop using it Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic C/C++ 1984 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Information Technologies IC Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-12T03:06:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Just get fascinated when thinking about the possibilities whenever I learn a new thing. It may need to step up its marketing game. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1984 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Risk Manager Financial professional 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:07:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Neat language, huge variety of packages, markdown Lack of static type checking and useful packages that vanish from CRAN at random General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive teaching demos I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Pascal 1980 Nonbinary White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education NA Educator NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:07:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Being able to see exactly what my students are tying to do with their data Having to google simple commands repeatedly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Qbasic 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Senior Lecturer Educator 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:09:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, R, Ruby Visual Basic 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Slovakia Arts and Entertainment Chief strategy officer Management 4 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:11:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Community, flexibility, meta-programming Base R function documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data engineering Visual Studio Code, PyCharm 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Go, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Professional and Business Services Senior Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:11:27Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2006 Work with a teacher I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never Comunidad Aparecen cosas nuevas mucho más rápido de lo q puedo aprender General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1981 Female Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Mexico Education Teacher and researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:11:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Being able to do everything with one tool NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), rmarkdown I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS R 1984 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom fmcg data scientist Statistician 2 Neutral UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:13:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally It's statistical functionalities "It's ""strange"" as programming language. Python is much more coherent in this area." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 9 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Manufacturing Lead data scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:14:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The community Deployment in cloud environments General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month rstudio addin I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code, atom 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, Python, R R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) data engineer Software developer 10 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf rweekly RSS feed English 2020-12-12T03:14:30Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS C/C++ 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Singapore Research NA Student NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:15:47Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Research paper I expect it to increase Three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SPSS SPSS 1984 Male Asian Some college or university, no college degree Pakistan Natural Resources and Mining Lecturer Data scientist or analyst 8 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-12T03:17:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) OOP in R is very odd and tryCatch is ugly to read. More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually The huge amount of packages that you have available to do almost everything It does not have official SDKs for cloud providers (ex: boto3 is not natively for R, you have paws but is not an official sdk). Default arguments are quite ugly (I use optparse because is similar to python). Packrat was horrible (I'm so glad that you developed renv, excellent job there). Logging packages are not very mature and sometimes debugging warnings and errors are very difficult. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 2.0, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, SageMaker Studio 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, SQL C/C++ 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden OEM/Energy Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T03:17:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect Yes Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Matlab 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:17:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Creating presentations/documents, R shiny Web applications 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community of R users. Very engaged and supportive "The fact that is case sensitive causes so many avoidable issues. Error messages feel like riddles sometimes" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS Excel 1972 Cis male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Publishing Marketing analytics lead Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T03:17:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Easy reporting function I feel out of the market since data science seems to be now mostly a python thing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R R 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Utilities Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:20:46Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The number of packages and the ease of use. Debugging. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel 3 8 I expect it to increase R Matlab 1985 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Financial Services and Activities Investment consultant Financial professional 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:21:31Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1962 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Manufacturing NA Management NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:22:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Using R's documentation Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's challenging but very powerful Complicated for simple data manipulation but probably a function of my own ability General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Twitter I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Coding PyCharm 3 7 I expect it to stay the same R, Visual Basic Basic 1972 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) South Africa Research Procurement Officer Administration 1 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:22:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Flexibility for many uses and the automation of all my workflows When it’s time to update.... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1990 Female Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Postdoctoral scientist Researcher 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:23:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibility Inconsistent syntax structure (e.g. apply family) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Automated analysis reports. To batch generate lab sheets from sample lists. I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Bash Bash 1992 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Postdoc Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:28:12Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Time. The skills are super valuable but it takes time to get used to the syntax and the programming approach (vs excel). Being able to have that learning curve at work helped tremendously. Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Audit trails, reproducibility, automation, easy to read tidyverse code, can do anything in R. Creating PPT slides that is the expected output directly in R is still a bit of a hill to climb. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding resulting tables or charts into internal memos, reports and PPT presentations I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau, Power BI Excel 1982 Male NA Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Switzerland Financial Services and Activities Risk manager Financial professional 300 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:28:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Reproducible coding More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually I feel like I can do anything with R It's usage is not as popular as python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Rmarkdown I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SAS C/C++ 1994 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Malaysia Insurance Actuarial Analyst Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:31:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, GIS 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally If i have an idea and want to explore it in my data it takes 30 seconds I am too old for tidyverse syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same fortran basic 1978 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research chief fisheries advisor Consultant or Advisor 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:31:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was part of a course I took Bizarre language design such as when having to convert a factor to numeric Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA Some weird design decisions as outlined in https://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda 1 9 I expect it to increase R Visual Basic 1975 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Financial Services and Activities Head of Fraud Analytics & Data Science Financial professional 0 No, not really NA Carl Howe English 2020-12-12T03:34:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Reproducibility, flexibility, no limits, creativeness, stackoverflow support Debugging, figuring out how to do specific changes to graphs (that are very intuitive in other applications) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Commodore Basic 16K :) 1977 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Hungary Research associate professor Researcher 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:34:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually I can do almost everything in R R is not so popular as Python in my country (Russia). As consequence, it is difficult to find big projects and job opportunity to use all my knowledge of R in full Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling R, RStudio Server 2 3 I expect it to increase Java, R Java 1986 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 35000 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:36:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproduceability Some packages inconsistent General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R C/C++ 1978 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United Kingdom Education Product Development Manager Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:40:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The great things I can do like visualizations, building dashboards, modelling and data cleaning and transformation with the tidyverse The examples in the documentation are too generic in my opinion General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code 3 3 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Python 1997 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany automotive NA Student 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:40:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I can do in 3 lines of code what would take me 15 in other languages. The Tidyverse packages have also made R far more intuitive IMO Error messages are often very obtuse and don't give you any real indication of what is wrong General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS SAS 1974 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Director of Data & Analytics Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T03:42:38Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It solved a problem I had at work So many ways to do a specific task which is a bit confusing in the beginning Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 6 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Presentations at work I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Still learning to use it I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Plain old basic (without the visual!) 1967 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Manufacturing Application scientist QC 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:43:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 3 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA Syntax of packages is not sufficiently standardised General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Visual Basic, Stata Pascal 1956 Male NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Professor Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:43:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Reporting 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Helping comminity Reproducibility on different machines General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Excel 1975 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Management 2 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:44:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It is open source. The dependencies in packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Logo 1990 Female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Research Fellow Researcher 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:45:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Graduate school It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Sisense Yes Usually The online community Learning to do the same things in multiple ways, depending on packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, Spyder 2 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Sr director, data science Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:46:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually Integrated workflow from data to scientific publication Package issues + error & debugging we things get wrong & to complex for me to understand General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, A lot of answer I plan to use Rmd for but need to increase my expertise I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Health Care and Medicine Associate professor Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:46:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab Matlab 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Research Professor Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T03:50:05Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Very logical to me using small building blocks mainly through tidyverse. It means that my final code is probably not the slickest or most efficient- but it usually works. Coming back to something after a few months and it doesn’t work due to some package being out of date or not compatible with a newer package. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month I use it to replicate the lessons and examples from courses on datacamp, so I can go back and see how it was done. I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Downloading data. I used to do it with R script but python method much faster Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 5 I expect it to decrease Excel, R Pascal 1968 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Natural Resources and Mining Analyst Financial professional 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:50:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, spatial Data analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Diversity, capabilities Spatial performance General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month course I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None bash 1976 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research lecturer, Senior researcher Researcher 50 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:51:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 3 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually The breadth of statistical packages. The pits filled with sharp spikes. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Internal documentation and communication. I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics Conda, R 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R Basic 1977 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Health Care and Medicine Research fellow Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:51:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, hypotheses testing 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually %>% Not enough experience to navigate errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Business Science University course work. Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Just getting to Shiny now I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS MS DOS 1970 male White almost finished a PhD but left after my dissertation was accepted United States of America Professional and Business Services Analysis professional Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:52:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Simulation 4 8 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, docker No Occasionally the controlled chaos dealing with CRAN General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Supporting researchers shiny applications (sorry, it's a bit weird) I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Orchestration docker, vault 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, Python, R Python 1979 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Principal research software engineer Software developer 10 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:52:05Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data manipulation/visualisation/statistical analysis Documentation is a bit difficult for begginers General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I haven't yet shared work I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Used it for assigments in course I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month I just know basics Jupyter Notebooks 5 9 I expect it to increase R R 2001 Male White Some college or university, no college degree Azerbaijan Not Employed Student Student 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:53:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Used in teaching None More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Functional programming makes it easy NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Cloud 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1985 NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Tajikistan Education Assistant Professor Researcher NA Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:53:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Managing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually RStudio is the best IDE. Easy to use. Less code. No need to write JavaScript/CSS/HTML to produce visuals Sometimes slow performance. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, R Ruby 1985 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Italy Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Information management specialist IT 0 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T03:54:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Teaching 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Cutting edge tools, supportive community. Nothing, R's great. OK, maybe the documentation could be clearer. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Package creators General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Teaching I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Colab, Spyder 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Research Assistant professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2020-12-12T03:55:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Endless opportunities through open source packages NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1975 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Scientist Researcher 2 Neutral NA R-bloggers English 2020-12-12T03:56:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Downloading and installing packages works smoothly (unlike in bloody python). Nothing. I like it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 2 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, PHP, Python, R, Tableau PHP 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Education Research Assistant Researcher 4 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T03:57:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1998 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine 4 8 EMACS ESS mode, Matlab, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 2 5 I expect it to decrease R C/C++ 1977 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T04:01:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually visualization NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing Conda, pycharm 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1988 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) China Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T04:01:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually versatility NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase R R 1983 male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Finland Health Care and Medicine Visiting researcher Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T04:04:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Great community to solve issues Constant evolving (which is a good thing, I know but also that old scripts won't work) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Cranberries Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1986 Mals White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Education PostDoc Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:07:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually You get to your results very quickly There isn't enough support for multicore processing. I'm working on a 32-core server but my R process usually uses a single thread. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Genomics Conda 5 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, Bash QBasic 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Computational biologist Researcher 20 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-12T04:12:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 8 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Packages Dependant on packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Image analysis Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Research Bioinformatician Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:12:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS, BigQuery SAS 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Professional and Business Services Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:13:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the active community that is always willing to help with any problems NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Conda, PyCharm 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1993 female Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine PhD Student Researcher 2 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:15:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Teaching 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Stata No Usually Visualisation; community; opensource; great libraries Inconsistencies between versions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 6 I expect it to increase R Gauss 1962 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Education University professor Educator 4 Yes, somewhat UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T04:15:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Stata Yes Usually Reproducibility Error messages sometimes do not make sense General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Stata R 1988 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Research fellow Medical professional 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:16:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA NA R 1997 F White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Slovenia Not Employed NA None NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:16:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 YouTube I was personally interested Time from the day job. Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely it is very logical I don't get to play with it enough General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I don't just yet - they are only used by me I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, Tableau, Visual Basic, Neo4j Cypher Visual Basic 1964 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Environmental Project Manager Consultant or Advisor 5 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T04:16:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) After getting cought in exceptions in py / pandas too often as coding beginner, I saw a collegue use R. The code looked briefer. After learning a bit I saw I was less busy with debugging in R than in Py. Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually functional programming paradigm language is way easier to use than tohers, ecosystem of packages for any task, barrier once we got used to R to developing software ourselfs is lower "native R can be slow, but the thing is to know how to use it properly. I dont like that it has a quirky image and is sometimes seen as kinda not real language. If R does not make functional widespread, julia will. mlr3 adopts kinda oop. Thats not what im looking for in R." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, seriously I watch the cranberry bot on twitter. also googling for very specific solutions usually points me to unkown github packages not on cran Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Text processing Anaconda, Conda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Julia, Python, R Python 1986 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Information Technologies Data Creative Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T04:20:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community It is not an all purpose language, which is good, but sometimes you run into problems you want to do with R and you do not know how to even approach it (mostly relates to CS stuff) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to stay the same R R 1995 Male Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Kazakhstan Information Technologies Data Analytic Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:22:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Esse of use and flexibility (I never found something I can't do with r) It is slow for some applications General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Excel 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Education Doctoral student Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:24:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Libraries Syntax Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Text processing, Financial analysis Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Bash C/C++ 1990 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Accommodation and Food Services Navision consultant Consultant or Advisor 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T04:27:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do bioinformatics analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Bioinformatics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Easy of handling large datasets, tidyverse, pipes, rmarkdown Frequent problems installing packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Bioconductor Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating Word documents with rmarkdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, bash Basic 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Senior lecturer Academic 5 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T04:27:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis 1 5 NA No Never NA That it's not a general programming language, and has a low-level paradigm so different to the other languages I work with General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation NA NA I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, data processing in astronomy NA 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Python, R C/C++ 1985 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Education NA Software developer 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T04:29:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 At university receiving my bachelor degree It was part of a course I took Writing functions without Stackoverflow Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually I truly can do many things with data that I want to I often have to google to find solution and frequently forget how some functions work. Also, I would not say that there are many tutorials in the Internet to learn Advanced R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning PyCharm 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau R 1999 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Russia Education NA Consultant or Advisor 200 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:35:10Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use open source software and be able to use specific packages in the future Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Specialised packages Very difficult to get into again after a break General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1994 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD candidate Researcher 3 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:35:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Ease of complex data manipulations for my often messy data sources It can be slow and optimising performance can be tricky Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Reproducible reports in html with interactive data viz I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month As developer to allow others do standard data processing I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics, Cloud Computing Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Server 2 6 I expect it to increase Python, R, Perl; Bash Perl 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Research Bioinformatician Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:35:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The syntax with the pipe operator Sometimes simple adjustments to plots are overly complicated in ggplot General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Matlab, R R 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Education PhD student Student 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:35:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 2 I plan to stop using it Python, R R 1994 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Research NA NA NA Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:36:53Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Vast array of things I can do Having to constantly go back to old scripts to remember how to do something General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1981 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Betting Pricing Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:39:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually tidyverse problems with datatypes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Basic 1972 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Research NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:40:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually "You can use it for a lot of stuff other than ""just"" statistics." I don't know General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating html analysis reports I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, R C/C++ 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Research Bioinformatician Data scientist or analyst 6 Yes, somewhat UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T04:44:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Can do everything (data manipulation, visualisation, statistics) Error messages are not always but often incomprehensible, might as well be written in Chinese General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Consumer goods Analytics & Insights Manager Management 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:46:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 At school I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually Easy to use NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau SPSS 1985 W Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Turkey Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Sr Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T04:48:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Libre Office calc Yes Usually The extended possibilities it offers "The indispensable ""R culture"" needed to find something, even simple" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R4ds slack General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Social media I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Edit shareable results I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, Visual Basic R 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research assistant Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T04:49:46Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Swift C/C++ NA NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Malaysia Education NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-12T04:58:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, VIM Yes Occasionally Fast prototiping NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau PHP 1961 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Head of policy design Management 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference Email English 2020-12-12T05:01:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Importing data Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Reproducible workflow, versatile usuge, big helpful community, open-source, it is free! Steep learning curve, not intuitive language General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase """five""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month using alredy developed data simulator I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase NA R 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research resercher/ phd student Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:01:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually It's like solving a puzzle! Tidyverse syntax is very comprehensive. If googling your R questions doesn't provide any answers General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating custom html reports I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel 1987 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Education Data scientist Researcher 0 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:01:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Server Pro 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T05:02:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community support and demos of how to do things. As a beginner and the RStudio demos where the only things that allowed me to 'level up' my understanding of the language (which was my first!) Trying to understand how to iterate. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Swift R 1980 Male Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:02:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Tidy verse and statistical analysis Package management. Need a virtual environment setup like Python. Hadleys backwards compatibility (though I agree for speed of development) can cause problems down the line Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, RMarkdown via email I expect it to decrease Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities Quant Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T05:03:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually the pipe fixing dependencies (rgdal, proj, ...) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Small apps to manage databases I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Teaching (learnr) R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, R Javascript 1987 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Education NA Educator 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:04:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Knowing where to start Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Reports via rmarkdown, slides via xaringan 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code Yes Usually Expessive syntax of tidyverse functions Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, rweekly.org Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, slides with xaringan I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Interface to create parameterized RMarkdown reports and to execute other R scripts with parameters I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Stata Stata 1980 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America International aid Survey Specialist Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:04:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), LibreOffice Calc, Mplus, PSPP No Usually a lot of packages and great community making possible to contribute to the developement of them inconsistencies and lack of compatibility between packages I sometimes have to deal with General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating reports and documention of data workflows in PDFs or HTML files I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, PHP, R, SPSS, Mplus, LibreOffice Calc C/C++ 1985 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Research postdoc Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio blog via r-bloggers English 2020-12-12T05:07:15Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Medicine 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data visualisation Data manipulation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1965 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Research Research scientist Researcher 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:07:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's magic Uninformative errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation R 2 5 I expect it to increase R R 1983 Male Asian/white Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Postdoctoral researcher Researcher 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:09:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I know more about what the analysis is doing than I got from std stats software. It has helped make my analyses reproducible. The error messages can be challenging! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Occasional Experimental programming Microsoft Excel 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R, SPSS Matlab 1968 Female White PhD and professional degree Canada Healthcare & Education Associate Professor Educator 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:12:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Flexibility, rich world of packages Many brackets General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, R, SAS R 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Professional and Business Services Consultant data science Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:14:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Sampling 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally The power of the language and the availability of packages covering almost all needs NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS Fortran 1954 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Official Statistics NA Consultant or Advisor NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:15:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server No Usually Cran Version management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Conda, R 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1988 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:15:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Multitude of functions, packages, and analyses no multiline comment function General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R, SPSS Python 1992 male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research PhD Student Student 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:16:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually That it is built around understanding the inner workings of code and data structures. That it can be somewhat slow. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python R 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Education Research assistant Student 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:18:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Its simplicity and ease-of-reading Outdated packages that are no longer compatible with the newest version of R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, Visual Basic Excel 1961 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:21:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R, SPSS C/C++ 1960 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Epidemiologist Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T05:24:47Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 R U With Me (R-Ladies Sydney) and R Studio Primers I was personally interested Feelings of inadequacy about statistics Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Feeling part of a community of practice. I've enjoyed the practical problem solving part of learning new things, while feeling as if there are lots of useful resources out there to support my learning. I always feel like I don't understand stats well enough to do a good job of data analysis/exploration/visualization. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating custom PDF and html documents using bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SPSS Excel 1975 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Not Employed NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:26:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Graphical / data visualization tools Data manipulation. Tidyverse tools make it possible. Still prefer SAS for some tasks in data manipulation. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS SAS 1963 Man White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Professor Medical professional 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T05:27:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io, Notepad++, atom/teletype No Occasionally Extreme versatility Scarse efficience General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 2 5 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R C/C++ 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Research PostDoc Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:31:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Rarely ggplot2 NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Arduino Excel 1995 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Taiwan NA Environmental engineer Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T05:35:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually R and it's libraries are so we'll documented, makes learning easy "Quasiquatation and S3 are still hard to learn. Hadley's advanced book is good but could honestly is a bit more content. Also could us more data engineering tools. The tidyverse has made cleaning data so easy, but job scheduling, setting up dags, and things like that are a bit easier in python." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, github issues pages Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, slack and html reports I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month infrastructure tools like apache airflow and aws lambda Anaconda, R 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau, sql, bash sql 1987 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:40:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Resources available online Rounding error General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Survey analysis, Building telegram bots, experimental stimuli, etc Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1992 Female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Singapore Research NA Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:46:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Company external website I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Html documents for submission to class I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Stata Excel 1994 Woman White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Professional and Business Services Research analyst Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:47:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Shinyapps.io, Stata Yes Usually Open source, Rstudio has almost everything included, ggplot graphs, Rmarkdown for demoing results. Writing formulas! Difficult error messages, understsanding function parametrs and input formats, customising rmarkdown design General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 2 5 I expect it to decrease Python, R Python 1985 Man White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Finland Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:48:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS No Usually Reproduciibility Not easily learned General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS C/C++ 1992 Female White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Netherlands Health Care and Medicine PhD student Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:49:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Simplicity of coding and prototyping In some cases, R is kind of slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R Visual Basic 1988 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Research engineer Statistician 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:51:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Rs quirks More than once a day Linux/Windows 50/50 Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis, ETL, Shiny, APIs 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro No Usually Power Sitting in front of the computer General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R‘s help, i.e. ?function General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, APIs, CURL I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Internal Analysis documentation I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interface for standardised data transformations for users I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS Java NA NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Media NA Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:54:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course To produce better quality statistical graphics for publication Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Matlab, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Genstat, visual studio Yes Usually Graphics! Syntax inconsistent across packages and trying to understand spatial (sp/sf) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda 1 2 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1988 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Research scientist Researcher 10 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T05:54:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Visualisation reproducibility & Shiny apps NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Stan Excel 1964 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) France Natural Resources and Mining Process Engineer Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T06:01:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), GraphPad Prism Yes Usually It's quick and free Documentation is all over the place (literally everywhere on the internet than in one place) and error messages are not helpful. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R PHP 1979 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology Researcher 500 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:04:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It can do a lot and it's free Since there can be several ways to do something it can be difficult to chose a suitable solution to a problem General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I don't at the moment I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating reports of experimental results I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel PHP 1966 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Research technician Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:05:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Libraries available Debug tools General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1974 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Information Technologies CDO Management 2 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T06:07:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Flexibility to use any analysis, reproducibility. Vague error messages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1980 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Israel Research Biostatistician Data scientist or analyst 4 No, not really UseR conference Email English 2020-12-12T06:08:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Speed, functional paradigm Not rhe biggest community Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, R, Tableau R 1987 male White Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) Russia Information Technologies Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Telegram English 2020-12-12T06:09:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation AWS Lambda 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Matlab, R, Tableau R NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Finland Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:12:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Other people's code I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually RStudio Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Rweekly Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Reports I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 3 5 I expect it to decrease Javascript, Python, R R 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Financial Services and Activities Data Science Manager Management 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:13:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Rmarkdown Needing to learn “tricks” Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau, SQL SQL 1980 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:20:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It is easy and tidy updating General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month creating experiments/tasks Spyder 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, SPSS Python 1989 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-12T06:20:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power bi No Usually Ease of use Limitations on data size (ram) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Principal Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-12T06:20:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Managing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally NA Please support more on deeplearning , computer vision , video processing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, deep learning , computer vision Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 5 I expect it to stay the same Java, PHP, R pascal 1978 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Malaysia Telco Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 35 Neutral RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T06:21:30Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Trying to convince our organisation to allow R to be used at work. Got there eventually. Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibility n/a General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Word document reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, COBOL COBOL 1971 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Public health technical officer Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:23:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2001 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually I can quickly and easily turn an idea about data analysis into reality. Having to justify use of R to an inflexible and ignorant IT department General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, specialised analysis front ends for end users I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, R 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R BASIC on the BBC microcomputer, circa 1985! 1971 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Senior Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T06:25:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) moving to a newer computer and having to start over with libraries Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Occasionally free, code getting data types to cooperate General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R, html css html 1956 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Education student Student 1 No, not really RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:26:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Customer Analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Versatility Default limit of one CPU core and 32 bit integers General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R C# 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Education Research and Teaching Associate Researcher 8 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T06:27:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1987 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Assistant professor Researcher 20 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:34:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Web scraping 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse ecosystem Lack of flexibility such as list comprehensions and lambda (although forthcoming) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Researcher Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:36:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Visualization 3 8 Python, Shinyapps.io No Never Early days, still getting to grips with where I will use R N/A General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Nothing created yet I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization Matlab 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python Algol NA NA White Some college or university, no college degree United Kingdom Information Technologies Managing Director Software developer 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:38:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Stata Yes Occasionally Graphics Unusable old packages in new R versions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Stata Excel 1984 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Uganda Research NA Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:38:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never NA The obsession with tidyverse. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS, Html, css, kotlin R 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Research NA Statistician NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:40:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was part of a course I took Having concrete examples and real data to learn with More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility to use in myriad contexts & the well maintained tidyverse Generating MS Office documents using rmarkdown, with many issues trying to produce output matching company style. Though this is not a problem with R, as much as it is a compromise made with pandoc’s conversions to e.g. PowerPoint Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating MS Word documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Finland Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Lead Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:43:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Epidemiology 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Coming from SAS: ggplot, data wrangling, scaling of repeated operations NSE, lack packages supporting case-cohort design General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS SAS 1986 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Scientist / Post-Doc Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:47:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually That it covers the whole data science pipeline, and allows various output formats. It is slow. For big data I need to use data.table. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, PowerPoint and Email, Shiny Server that is provided by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1981 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Insurance Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:50:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely very expressive data manipulation and analysis type unstability, all those little inconsistencies, dependency hell Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, my package on CRAN I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R BASIC and Pascal NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine NA Administration NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:50:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Javascript 1982 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Arab Emirates Media Digital analytics Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:52:33Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data visualisation Not being able to change cell contents General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1980 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Anaesthetist Medical professional 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:54:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo shiny apps, confluence I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I plan to stop using it I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R pascal 1994 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Information Technologies product analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA telegram English 2020-12-12T06:55:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS Yes Usually It's so versatile It takes time to correctly do what you need to do. Especially when using new data formats/packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Genomics Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R 3 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS, SPSS R 1992 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) South Africa Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2020-12-12T06:56:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1993 Grad school, I did my thesis with Splus, then moved to R in about 1998 I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS Yes Usually Fantastic visualizations and R Markdown! Game changers for reporting results Learning curve, students need more GUIs to help get them started. Better error messages would really help especially when it is a simple typo. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SAS, SPSS Pascal and Fortran 1967 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Research Professor Statistician 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T06:58:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I was personally interested Find packages to do specific things and learn how to use them More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Sometimes Visual Studio Code Yes Usually It is open, simple and powerful Sometimes it lacks of an organized development program. I mean, for example, I can have a library for missing imputation as mice which works with linear models, but there are few packages to make it work with anova or mixed models and it is even more complex the combination of both, that is, making an Anova of repeated measures. Further, if there is some option to use mice assuming MNAR, there is no way to combine all these options. Another example: there are a few packages to compute multinomial models like nnet, and some to compute different kinds of marginal effects, like margins, which does not fully work with those models, so if I want to compute marginal effects of multinomial models the options are very restricted. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week creating HTML documents to share results with collaborators I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Research Postdoctoral researcher Statistician 1 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-12T06:59:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Its relentless focus on usability & the community assignment operator tbh General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R, SAS Python 1985 nonbinary White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Arts and Entertainment Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:08:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R Matlab 1987 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Information Technologies Product manager Management 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:09:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 2 5 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally some of the statistical models the R syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R, LISP C/C++ 1945 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA NA NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T07:10:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), PowerBI Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts PowerBI Report Server I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, DAX Visual Basic 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Financial Services and Activities HR analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Telegram English 2020-12-12T07:10:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It gets my statistical work done efficiently and accurately trying to do everything efficiently and aesthetically General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, documentation of my calculational processes for me I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Conda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R Fortran 1946 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Professor Afiliado Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T07:11:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The community Inconsistencies and error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Research NA Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:12:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 3 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually it's simple tidyverse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS R 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Research analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:17:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I needed something other than Matlab and many ecologists used it. Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Simple, reproducible language Error messages are cryptic General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R LOGO 1976 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Associate Professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:18:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA Debugging functions is not easy General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R Excel NA Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Estonia Education NA Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:24:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding what the statistics really meant Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 5 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Civis platform No Usually Easy to do interactive data analysis without fussing over programming details. Reporting is also easy, I love the stack of rmarkdown + dplyr + ggplot + r modeling packages. R is not the right tool for some tasks. But I hate when my colleagues criticize some it’s “weirdness” compared to Python or Java. Almost every software engineer I talk to hates R, and it makes it a struggle to advocate for building R technology at my company. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Internal slack I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Short html research reports and analyses I want to communicate with others. I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Machine learning, Survey analysis Jupyter Notebooks, R, Civis Platform 2 6 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies Staff Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:27:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested NA More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Everything Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS C/C++ 1991 Male North African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Customer Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T07:28:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Yes Usually The community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Java 1994 Male White, Pākeha Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Professional and Business Services Economist Consultant or Advisor 8 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:30:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 4 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Web apps using Shiny, APIs. 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally R Syntax is clear. also RStudio IDE is very great. some packages aren't R native. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, to present tools developed for academic projects I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, R 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R C/C++ 1991 Male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Morocco Education PhD Student / Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T07:34:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually It's so easy to do heavy lifting. The support community is great too. Error messages can be difficult to trace back. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Data analysis I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 5 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic Matlab 1986 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 100 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:34:46Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Concise, intuitive syntax and style of problemsolving NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Modeling, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, Rust Python 2000 male White Some college or university, no college degree Germany NA NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T07:42:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Github search Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Internal kubernetes cluster I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Server Pro 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1987 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Chemical Digitalisation research scientist Statistician 300 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:44:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There's always a library to get something done in R The documentation. Gives me anxiety while trying to understand what is it saying. And also when some library isn't working for whatever reasons General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R related subreddits General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Tableau, Sql Excel 1998 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Agriculture Business Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:47:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Reproducibility and clarity Remembering the syntax. I usually don't; I look them up. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1981 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Research Engineer Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:49:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Occasionally You don't have to compile code. You can just run it line by line. I have a really hard time getting latex to automatically integrate with it so that Markdown will work. A preinstalled latex editor that kicks in when another isn't found would be nice. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, With my students I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Class activity applets I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month coursework JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R Pascal 1984 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 5 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T07:49:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 3 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely Reproducibility Not easy to fix your data. I still depends on excel General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, R Visual Basic 1965 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Venezuela Education Proffesor Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:49:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, MCMC simulations 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It is easy to create functions in r that would not work in other programs Some of the errors can be cryptic General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS Minitab 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Quantitative/Computational Research Methodologist Statistician NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:51:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Data viz capabilities Could be more production ready. New version of packages have the potential to break code. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Twitter I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS, SQL, Stata SPSS 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:51:37Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Occasionally Data analysis and Plottings response time in my laptop General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors community.rstudio.com Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1982 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Education Assistant Professor Educator 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T07:52:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Active community who have already encountered and documented pretty much any problem I encounter Five minute bugs take me an hour to fix. Probably more a me problem. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Teaching I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Practice NA 3 5 I expect it to stay the same R, Stata Stata 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate professor Researcher 10 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:53:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis, database interaction 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually the community object of type 'closure' is not subsettable Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing NA 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Matlab, PHP, Python, R BASIC 1968 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Greece Education NA Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:55:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis, Shiny apps 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually Building shiny apps and websites Failed installation of packages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ 1994 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Kenya Not Employed Freelance data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T07:57:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Free to everyone; packages that allow me to do specialized analyses; easy to find answers to problems; RMarkdown and the papaja package for writing reproducible manuscripts Error messages can be vexingly mysterious; concerned about reproducibility and package conflicts after updating; have to “trust” that package creators know what they’re doing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SPSS SPSS 1969 Woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Professor Researcher, Educator, Administrative 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:01:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Geospatial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community, diversity of application and ease to use Nothing really, just tired of the stereotype that it isn’t production scalable General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Rapid prototyping and customer engagements I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SQL Visual Basic 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Information Technologies Product Development Manager Software developer 6 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:01:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Occasionally NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1977 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Utilities Manager Financial professional 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:03:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase blob Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R sql 1989 feminine Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research postdoc, researcher Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:05:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Provides great tools for data manipulation, modelling. visualization and interactive applications Nothing in particular General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Matlab 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Financial Services and Activities Risk Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:05:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Ability to use GitHub, have documented code and logic, readable code that's easy to write and understand, also great community Sometimes I feel like there's so much available/possible that I'm doing it wrong General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R Graph Gallery Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Slack I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Internal day to day data analysis, mostly just html format, sometimes one-time requests for data, knitted to pdf or Word format I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SQL Excel 1972 Woman White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Non-profit HMIS Data Analysis Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:07:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Undergraduate biology laboratory It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server No Usually Overcoming issues and errors to produce statistical analyses and scientific figures that portray my data Learning and stumbling through new syntax for every new package I want or need to use General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1996 Non-binary White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Graduate student Student 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:07:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Dealing with the multiple/redundant learning ressources and packages, with sometimes different syntaxes to perform the same analysis. Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Versatility The huge and untidy list of packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Printed or Oral communications in congress I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month As a user of one of ly colleague's shiny app. I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month as a hobby of learning programming language Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic 1980's Basic! 1969 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Health Care and Medicine Surgeon Medical professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA r-bloggers English 2020-12-12T08:08:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase SAS SAS 1976 Man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:08:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R Fortran 1947 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Retired NA Software developer 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:11:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Professional and Business Services Chief Data Scientist Consultant or Advisor 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:11:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 Through S-plus in person course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Functional programming / dplyr / ggplot Sometimes when script too big and can’t run everything at once while connecting to Hadoop. And through anaconda, sometimes it crashes and have to delete the file in local folder, which is quite neat, but occasionally this happen a lot and not knowing why (thought it could be to do with complicate ggplot, but never sure) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Tableau, Visual Basic, Sql S-plus 1978 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Utilities Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 15 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T08:22:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to learn machine learning using the ISLR book Lack of good introductory books, vectors as data type and concept of functional programming Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Plotting capabilities in ggplot2, Rmarkdown, statistical modelling packages Functional programming, memory management, being a bit slow in execution, lack of readability when using Base R syntax Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month General purpose programming Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase R, SQL and PL/SQL C/C++ 1978 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Information Technologies Data Transformation, Integration & Migration Architect Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:24:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1987 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Norway Research NA Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:24:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1999 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Inconsistency in syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro No Usually Large ecosystem That deep learning methods are initially released in python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Formal reports via a publishing system I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Html to share with colleagues/for myself I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Kaggle Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, Stan C64 basic 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Pharmaceutical industry Biostatistician Statistician 30 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:27:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 2 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It's free It's not cheap General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None R 1977 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Postdoc Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:29:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau, TIBCO Spotfire Python 1993 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Costa Rica Health Care and Medicine Services Consultant Engineer Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T08:32:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA The visualization is hard. I wish is was better at it and end up writing out to Excel and using charts there. :/ General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SQL Maple 1980 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Neutral RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:34:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ability to learn and have community support for questions Lack of other R users in my area to network with and learn from General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Fortran 1950 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Date Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2020-12-12T08:34:29Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Education Researcher Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:35:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Functional programming as first class citizen Dynamic typing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing, Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Rust Basic (DOS) 1993 NA White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree NA Research Graduate Student Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:35:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Datacamp Email I expect it to stay the same 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1988 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Spain Information Technologies Product Owner Management 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:36:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA R Excel 1972 NA Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Peru Research NA Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:37:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Rstudio: ligthyears ahead of any IDE I know. The huge number of data types General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io 2 3 I expect it to decrease Excel, Matlab, R Excel 1985 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Financial Services and Activities Risk Manager Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T08:41:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally The online community that makes it easy to find answers to questions Poor/difficult to use documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Preparing supplemental materials for scientific publications I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R C/C++ 1986 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Postdoctoral Fellow Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:43:54Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2004 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Still learning 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely Pays a lot of $$$ if I can develop proficiency. Steep learning curve of syntax, reduced ability to visualize the data in progress as compared to a spreadsheet. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Never had a problem yet R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views Not reached this milestone yet I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None R 1981 Male Brown Paki Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Pakistan Financial Services and Activities Relationship manager Financial professional 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:44:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding a platform to learn it Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually Data Visualization, web development NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Online courses Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same """five""" I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1992 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Pakistan Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistical Officer Statistician 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:46:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually The Languange and sytax is easy to learn Need high RAM to processing a model General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, R, Tableau C/C++ 1987 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Indonesia Natural Resources and Mining Predictive Maintenance Interpreter Data scientist or analyst 6 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T08:47:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually its versatility NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1998 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Research Student Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:48:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Spatial analysis 4 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The pipe from magrittr Dplyr returning tibbles General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R Excel 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Research Research Technician Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:52:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 Student It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually R Markdown, the community, #RStats Twitter, tidyverse, shiny Learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, #RStats twitter I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating html course materials that I deploy via netlify, distill website I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1981 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Visiting Assistant Professor Educator 6 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:52:47Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 3 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) Yes Occasionally Creating interactive maps Writing code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS 2 4 I expect it to decrease R R 1998 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Not Employed NA Student 10 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:55:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating html documents to use in teaching I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Education Lecturer Educator 3 Neutral NA Facebook English 2020-12-12T08:56:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually The power of the language - and the many great statistical packages. The power of the language - it's difficult to fully understand and aways be aware of the intricacies. And the many packages - which are all often nconsistegn in their conventions, APIs,... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, The documentation, Hadley's books General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating technical reports within my organisation I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Monitoring I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Remote sensing and climate research JupyterLab 2.0, R, PyCharm 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, Python, R, Fortran Fortran 1964 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Radio Occultation Team Leader Researcher 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T08:56:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The great variety of packages that incorporate state of the art statistical thinking Nothing... Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating html code for my pages on GitHub I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, SQL FORTRAN 1961 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 10 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T08:58:47Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Community support Searching stack overflow for a solution General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel NA he Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Singapore Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T08:59:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 3 5 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducible data analysis NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Basic 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Associate Professor of Medicine Researcher 15 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-12T09:00:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), BBEdit Yes Usually Ability to automate tasks. Documentation is written for specialists/programmers General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Email lists such as r-help Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I'm a journalist: National network news I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel R 1964 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Media Chief Political Correspondent Journalist 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:04:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Occasionally Speed of development, community, Deep learning lack of, licensing Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS R 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Manufacturing Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:06:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually The power of the language - and the many great statistical packages. The power of the language - it's difficult to fully understand and aways be aware of the intricacies. And the many packages - which are all often nconsistegn in their conventions, APIs,... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, The documentation, Hadley's books General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating technical reports within my organisation I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Monitoring I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Remote sensing and climate research JupyterLab 2.0, R, PyCharm 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, Python, R, Fortran Fortran 1964 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Radio Occultation Team Leader Researcher 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T09:06:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The index is very easy to use. Quick. Tons of solutions. Tidyverse and data.table. Difficult to scale (as far as I know). Can't find a job with it. Needs a solution to write and deploy production ready code. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Javascript, Julia, Python, R R 1984 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Not Employed Unemployed Statistician 0 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T09:07:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Comprehensive set of data tools Not fully understanding data types General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS Excel 1972 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Analytics manager Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-12T09:07:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Clinical trials 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to stay the same 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, SAS 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Julia, PHP, Python, R, SAS Fortran 1960 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Health Care and Medicine NA Consultant or Advisor NA No, not really NA NA English 2020-12-12T09:11:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Formal online graduate course as well as other resources found online (specifically, Learning Statistics with R by Danielle Navarro) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase None I am just getting started learning programming 1982 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Health Care and Medicine Pharmacy technician NA NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:11:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Usually Elegant grammar Lack of consistency between packages outside the tidyverse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1998 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Some college or university, no college degree Brazil Financial Services and Activities Economist Student 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:14:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Time goes by very fast with out getting bored in between NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1989 Male European Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Researcher Researcher 4 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:19:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Installation of R and R Studio in Linux at the beginning More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Community, Learning materials, Stats Packages, Tidyverse coherence. Speed, Tydiverse should replace base R or become a language in itself. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1973 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Manufacturing Project Manager Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-12T09:20:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Once you get the basics, it is a simple straightforward language. Combined with Rstudio, it's a very powerful tool. I also like the open source movement. Error messages are sometimes not clear General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Israel Research Lead data science Researcher 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T09:23:50Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 7 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Microsoft Excel, R 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Pascal 1988 Male NA Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Hungary Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:23:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Matlab, Python, R, SAS Java 1984 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Education Senior Researcher Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:23:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 7 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Versatility Isolation, very few of my colleagues use it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Building admin interface for ML models developped in python I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Head of data management Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:24:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro No Usually The fast iterations between data and visualisation Some packages dependencies are a huge problem to install/use General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R Python 1987 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Post-doctorate fellow Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T09:25:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually User friendly Some error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Excel 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Research Research Assistant Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T09:25:38Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested markdown Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 3 7 RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Never markdown none Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis Jupyter Notebooks 4 6 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python Visual Basic 2020 NA Black/African, White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree NA Financial Services and Activities NA Administration NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T09:27:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Intuitive and centralized. Tidyverse makes everything easy and handled 90% of what I need to do. Used to be that I needed 70 packages to do something simple like CART. But the tidyverse is creating a centralized package suite for everything. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five. Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Julia, Matlab, Python, R Visual Basic 1997 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Military NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T09:28:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested generic basics like environments which weren't covered More than once a day I'm not sure if work is windows or linux, windows at home Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually it's intuitive. I like that there is more than one way of doing something. Also has the best visualisations sometimes a bit slow, need access to python 3 (which we don't yet have at work) to do BERT General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day as working documents, printouts including code for me, reports without code, dissertation... I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, personal use only - sometimes just to practice I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), command line 2 6 I expect it to increase R strictly speaking Fortran but didn't do much, then R 1959 none White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup rbloggers English 2020-12-12T09:28:55Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Finding a function that exactly does what I'm looking for Knowing the basics now it's hard to develop further... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Generating reports to check data I don't have direct access to. I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS 1987 Female Asian, White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Research Postdoctoral researcher Researcher 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:30:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually It has a large community of users willing to help you solve the problems you face Getting started in programming is not so easy General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1974 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bolivia Professional and Business Services Director Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T09:32:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Using the tidyverse. And that it doesn’t necessarily feel like programming Nothing actually General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub 1 6 I expect it to stay the same Java, R, SPSS Java 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Academia Research Assistant & PhD Student Researcher 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:36:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I like having access to the ggplot2 functions. Not having something like temporary and permanent SAS libraries. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating HTML reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS SAS 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Research Associate Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:37:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Education I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, RStudio Server Pro 4 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Lecturer Educator 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:48:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Simple syntax. Tidyverse makes it easy to scale operations and keep output in a single tibble (map-functions, list-cols). Inability to kill a non-responsive program. STOP rarely works and it requires restarting the session, often after a killall command in the terminal. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, shinyproxy, docker I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, computer vision, microprocessors, microcontrollers Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, PyCharm 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R SAS 1979 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Agriculture Vice President Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:52:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, Conda 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R Python 1996 Genderqueer Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Research assistant Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:53:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Simplicity with Tidyverse tools Making functions with tidyverse tools is pain. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R C/C++ 1995 Male Asian High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Nepal Health Care and Medicine Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T09:53:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Pipes Plotting General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Winbatch 1966 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Technology architect Information technology 10 No, not really NA Rbloggers English 2020-12-12T09:57:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The simplicity of the Tidyverse syntax and working in an R Markdown document so I can organise my code and add my write ups. Debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, PowerPoint slides I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R R 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Real Estate Head of Research Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:00:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization, Genomics Anaconda 4 10 I expect it to stay the same R R 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Health Care and Medicine PhD student Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:01:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Wrapping my head around the computer/programming thinking. Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to decrease Excel, R R 1991 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Research NA Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:02:08Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 3 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1973 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Greece Insurance NA Financial professional 3 Neutral NA Facebook English 2020-12-12T10:04:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse / Tidymodels framework Base R syntax and understanding error messages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Rmarkdown (knitted pdf) I expect it to increase Five. Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Java 1982 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Analytics Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:04:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The lovely community Trying to keep track of so many packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Web scraping Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 3 I expect it to decrease R, Stata Basic 1965 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Education Professor Researcher 12 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:05:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The power you obtain from being able to confidently handle data Reading other people’s code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1992 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education Student Student 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:05:35Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages I don't use R any more Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 3 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server Yes Occasionally Free, sharing with others, flexible, code runs even five years later It’s so hard to learn, people on the help websites (stack exchange) are mean, there’s a lot of snobbery from experts and I feel embarrassed for not being able to figure things out General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Public outreach and meetings with policymakers I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel Excel 1979 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Non profit — environmental conservation Conservation scientist Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:07:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1999 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Fullstack 4 nearly everything Package dependendcy, but with docker it getting better General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Javascript, R, SPSS Assembler 1966 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA NA English 2020-12-12T10:07:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 2 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The consistency among the tidyverse packages makes learning them much faster. R packages progress so quickly that it's hard to catch up. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1968 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Insurance Director of Actuarial Services Actuary 7 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-12T10:07:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Complete control over data manipulation Can sometimes get results in a few clicks in SAS-JMP in a few minutes where learning to do so in R may take 10x the time. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral Researcher Researcher 1 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-12T10:07:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Tidyverse and that normally, someone, somewhere already wrote a package to solve you problem. It is the swiss army knife of data science. The lack of common syntax. Being afraid that Python will rule the world General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), power points, rmarkdown, shiny server, I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Basic then fortran - i'm old 1970 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Research senior research fellow Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T10:08:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I was personally interested Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Querying databases and leveraging API’s 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The R community, data visualisation and reproducibility Debuging and error handling General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month To get started with understanding how Python works RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 2 8 I expect it to increase R R 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Financial Services and Activities Business Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:10:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Various packages for data manipulation Memory management Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R Java 1995 Make Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Kenya Information Technologies Software developer/ machine learning engineer Software developer 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:11:54Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Finding the right way to learn and to me it was ONline classes (Datacamp) Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually It is FREE but also, I am in my 40s, I needed some challenges to survive my bullshit job. This makes me happy ! "Inconsistencies... why would as.Date havee a capital in Date !?? there are some things that could be simplified (do we really need quotation marks all the time), could there be more uniformity in the parameters names (e.g. why not use ""sep"" all the time rather than adding a ""delim""...)" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I don't for now. Maybe I'll create a package for social media in the future. I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month being lazy with reports I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SQL SQL 1975 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Communication Advisor Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:12:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually graphics, versatility, packages syntactical or notational incoherence of packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Embedding results in papers, studies for clients I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating html/pdf/word files for internal communication with my non-R-user colleagues I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Assembler 1962 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Hungary Consulting CEO, partner Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T10:22:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 On the job I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Rstudio It’s slow Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora R-bloggers Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shiny server I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Pascal 1981 Male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Austria Financial Services and Activities Riskmanager Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Finance conference Email English 2020-12-12T10:30:19Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, ShinyProxy No Occasionally Data frames NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), nbgallery, shinyproxy I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Julia, R, Perl FORTRAN 1970 male European Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark BioTechnology Science Manager Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-12T10:31:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Survey analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually very expressive thanks to tidyverse NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts my blog I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Pascal 1988 man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Statistician 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:33:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS No Usually Customized analyses Error messages, EDA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Cranberries Personal blog or web site owned by you, I write R books, e.g. R in Action I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Assigning and collecting homework I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SAS, SPSS Basic 1956 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Blog English 2020-12-12T10:35:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 2.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Community Can be slow and there's a gazillion functions to do the same thing. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, R 5 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, Bash R 1994 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Research Scientific Technologist Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:35:19Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Good data types for time series analysis didn't exist at the time More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 6 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), vim, nvim-r, radian No Rarely The ability to easily do interactive data analysis, but also write production stable scripts and packages. The bifurcation in the community caused by RStudio's tidyverse team (e.g. community.rstudio.com to compete with StackOverflow and R-help, tidyverse packages to replace most functionality in base R). The desire of the tidyverse team to 'own the whole stack' and either place demands on upstream maintainers or remove the maintainer's package from their dependencies (e.g. Rcpp). I.e. the desire to control the development community that touches any aspect of their packages, rather than work within the community. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building websites and blog posts without blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Conda 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, C#, SQL Excel NA NA NA NA NA Financial Services and Activities NA DevOps 3 No, not at all UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Finance conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:38:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python Yes Usually Meta programming as well data manipulation Text data analysis General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1997 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:41:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Always being updated and relevant. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R C/C++ 1982 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) South Africa Research Associate professor Statistician 200 Yes, definitely UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T10:42:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It's very versatile, has incredible visualization capabilities, and can do practically any analysis I've needed so far. Some error messages can be cryptic. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R R 1986 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Bulgaria Research Researcher Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:49:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Rarely Open source Its flexibility and extensibility are amazing, but can make it challenging to code collaboratively, since everyone approaches it differently, even more so than with other programming languages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Public web site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating web pages I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R I honestly don't remember, I did a small amount of programming in many different languages when I first started 1981 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:49:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The focus on solving problems, not fussing with computer science esoterica. Poor error messages, especially in RMarkdown. Also, poor reproducibility because of constant open source package changes (e.g., doing away with plyr just “because”). I am concerned about the growing trend in the tidyverse on computer science details over problem solving. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating word reports I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, R Basic (before visual!) and pascal 1967 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Process Engineer Data scientist or analyst 4 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:50:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally The combination of simplicity and potential NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Stack Overflow community Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Excel 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Research NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2020-12-12T10:56:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Tidyverse is making data cleaning easier and almost fun. I wish there was more a unified rule for naming variables must have underscores. in functions names from packages. Pythons forces this. Several packages have functions that do the same thing, but the only difference in the function name is the period instead of an underscore. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Deep learning Anaconda, Conda, Pycharm 3 10 I expect it to decrease Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS Matlab 1987 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Applied research scientist Statistician 10 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T10:56:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Sequential data transformations are so easy in R. My first programming language was SQL where doing sequential transformations in a select requires nesting sub-selects. R opened up so many possibilities with processing data quickly and intuitively. Access to the universe of model types has also been revolutionary for my work flow. I would say lack or resources for GPU acceleration. There are some out there but they are not well integrated with the universe of modeling tools General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building automated emails using blastula I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Financial analysis R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SQL SQL 1982 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Sr. Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 14 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T10:59:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually endless possibilities package installs (errors) and deprecated functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, using it as a base html framework I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA NA NA NA Javascript, R R 1993 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T11:00:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Usually Learning and using “tidy” concepts has helped me think more clearly about my analysis problems. Honestly, not just my problems, I think more clearly about other peoples problems and that clear thinking helps me design better experiments. Also, the community is A+++. I wish I participated more! S4. Haha jk (but actually I do find prolific S4 use in bioconductor frustrating). Probably, just the software version management. renv is great, but I am still looking for a cross-platform way to “restore” other system dependencies that are almost always used in my projects (e.g. pandoc, hugo etc.). Also, a consistent cross-platform way to switch R versions (perhaps automatically for projects) would help me immensely. It would be AMAZING if I could specify an renv.lock file in Rmd yaml and have the process launch the correct R version and libraries etc. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Due to certain IT limitations at my job, I currently knit to markdown, commit the results, and share a link to the rendered markdown on gitlab. This is pretty fast and lightweight (almost no setup required for new projects) for intermediate results. I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month I made some tools for data entry. E.g. highlight a region in an image and label it I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month To use or modify somebody else’s script. Or, an API only has a python interface. RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral fellow Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:05:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually rstudio is the best IDE i've used slow geospatial processing speeds General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, R 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Visual Basic 1997 Male White, Native American Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Natural Resources and Mining Graduate Student Researcher 30 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:07:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Statistics Would like to stream data from disk. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Documentation like help and vignettes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Presentations (talks) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive data entry applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Postdoctoral research fellow Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:12:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Rarely Community & documentation abundance of bad practice General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Narrative storytelling with text and data, Prototyping I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Workflow automation Anaconda, Conda, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Julia, PHP, Python, R PHP 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Education NA Software developer 3 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:12:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually RStudio IDE and tidy syntax NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1993 Male Middle Eastern Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Egypt Transportation Research Associate Researcher 1 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:17:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, OCaml Yes Usually It is easy to get things done. Deployment for colleagues not using R is difficult. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization, Machine learning, Image processing Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, OCaml Pascal 1971 NA Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Textile Sensor development Engineer 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:17:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course My research Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Freedom to create what I want. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1978 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Researcher NA Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-12T11:22:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS, QGIS Yes Usually Flexibility, ‘I can do anything!’ Excessive renaming, e.g., svystat objects back into anything else, even ggplot Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Document research, thinking not just code I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Sharing with non-statisticians I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month GIS QGIS 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Visual Basic 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Lebanon Research Research Consultant Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:23:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis NA NA RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally the open source factor, good community (blogs, stackoverflow etc), r-studio the tidyverse pipe operator stuff that is taken over R Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1978 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine senior analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA r-bloggers English 2020-12-12T11:25:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Occasionally Ability to interface with so many different programs. Debugging is somewhat tedious compared to other languages, though it is getting better through user-developed packages. I do not use Rstudio, I cannot stand it, so debugging for me is done using sublime and browser statements or changing the options(error = ). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora search github Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, creating custom pdf documents using bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, fortran R 1984 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research Fish Biologist Researcher 15 Neutral RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-12T11:26:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually R communities. Specially R4DS Wide integration with other data management tools Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help, R4DS slack channel Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing, Neural networks JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase PHP, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1990 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Statistician Statistician 4 Yes, definitely UseR conference, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:33:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Meta-analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Availability of packages for variety of analyses; reproducible workflow Version control of packages and R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Principal Reseacher Researcher 20 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:35:34Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was necessary for the analyses of my master's research Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Survey analysis 2 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally the flexibility of options deciding which option to apply General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA 2 6 I expect it to increase Excel, SAS, SPSS Excel 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Natural Resources and Mining Environmental Technician Researcher 2 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-12T11:38:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Overwhelm with the quantity of materials/approaches/packages available. I was learning mostly through reviewing base R code snippets that my supervisor would share with me that would just get the job done. I was looking up things as I needed them and was lacking a mental model for what to learn and why. Even coming to R4DS as a book resource took some time because I was overwhelmed with the number of R books available. More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Sequel Pro Yes Usually The R language and R Markdown feel like an all-in-one solution to my *research* needs (1) The RStudio IDE seems to be the most popular environment but is not accessible to the blind community, and (2) R and RStudio are English-centric which means they aren't as accessible to a global audience General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SQL Matlab 1990 woman Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Researcher 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-12T11:41:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the packages cryptic error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 7 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS SAS 1967 male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities consultant Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral R Finance conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T11:46:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually with ability to manage data easily and give beautiful result data structure General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1978 male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Taiwan Health Care and Medicine visiting staff Medical professional 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:49:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, writing exams, projects, lecture notes, tutorials, papers, everything really 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually RStudio makes using R a pleasure! I like the functional programming capabilities of R and the great support system offered by R and RStudio communities. It's hard to create interactive mathematical visualizations and animations that have custom drawn images as well as standard mathematical graphs that can be done in R. In general, drawing custom images and image processing is not at the same level as in python. Also, there is need for better numerical and symbolic math packages, beyond the statistical packages. For example, there are no really great and well maintained packages for doing Fourier analysis and other serious numerical math beyond statistics. I am in academia, and all these things, if improved, could really make a big difference and greatly increase the popularity of R among people in academia, beyond the statistics and data science faculty. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R R 1972 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor of Mathematics Educator 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T11:52:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually you have a package for almost everything NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R views Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1977 male White Some college or university, no college degree Luxembourg Marketing digital officer Management 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T11:53:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Everything Server only in linux General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Botswana Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA NA English 2020-12-12T11:54:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Gives me all possibilities Difficult to find answers to very specific questions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, pdfs on fileshare (rmarkdown) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating pdfs using rmarkdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, General programming, producing Excelfiles NA 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SQL, bash NA 1971 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Switzerland Trade (Retail or Wholesale) DWH Specialist, Teamlead Consultant or Advisor 10 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T11:54:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Literate programming, documentation, writing 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The community Some features (e.g. ML) are still behind Python. Much more difficult to deploy. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, thesisdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Web app development I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Conda, R, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Not-for-profit Intelligence officer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T11:58:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually The Online Community. The thing I love most though is scraping data into a db that can pull into RMarkdown and produce a report that gets emailed to clients. There are so many packages that make this an awesome experience. My engineers don't use R compared to Python. So building pipelines or contributing to front-end is friction. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Scraping Reddit R 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Tableau R 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Financial Services and Activities Marketing Project Manager Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:02:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses No closed captioning on a lot of video content ( I’m deaf) Between once a day and once a week Windows and macos Statistical analysis, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Lots of free help/resources. Great community of women to network w/ I can’t understand pipes Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, YouTube Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Google drive I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Genomics, Medicine JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel 4 7 I expect it to increase Go, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Matlab NA Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research Associate researcher Student 1 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:03:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI No Usually It's growing fast. A package exists for almost everything we need. Difficulty to share results to non R-users in a professional and secured environment. (for example with our IT developpers) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:13:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually simple and intuitive; love using the tidyverse Nothing really General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS R 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Graduate Research Assistant Student 5 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T12:23:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility For loop speed Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Matlab, R, SAS SAS 1983 male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Post-doctoral research associate Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:27:19Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA Speed and visualization General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Not sharing.. as the same need to be extracted in excel I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Excel, Visual Basic Fox Pro 1976 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Retail Data Analyst Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:27:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually The R-community is fantastic. Everyone in this community wants their colleagues to succeed. My introduction to R was painful because it was my first exposure to programming. The syntax of R was confusing to me as I tried to learn Python concurrently. Base R is not very idiomatic, but the acceptance of the tidyverse packages is changing this rapidly. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Text processing, Genomics Conda, Microsoft Excel, R 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Academic Graduate student Student 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:28:01Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the RStudio development environment Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually In a few lines of code I can create and change visualizations to support the teaching and discovery of statistical topics to high school students. I have the most trouble saving and retrieving projects and files. It is difficult to separate storage when my institution shares files through Google Drive. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SAS Pascal NA Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Dean Administration 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:29:59Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel Excel 1995 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Cote d'Ivoire Research Microbiologist Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:31:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally The flexibility The documentation of the C API General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation NA 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Javascript, Python, R BASIC 1976 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Information Technologies software engineer Software developer 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:35:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Easy coding Accesing vignettes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, R 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1993 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Mexico Research NA Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-12T12:36:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, geospatial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely Compared to the other programming languages I can be more productive it requires more memory (RAM) for a task compared to other programming languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, deep learning Spyder 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R R 1976 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Greece selfemployed - Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T12:36:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 8 I expect it to increase Python, R Java 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Professional and Business Services Working Student Student 4 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:37:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Julia, Python, R, SPSS Pascal 1974 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Serbia and Montenegro Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T12:39:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 university course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), power bi Yes Usually Good documentation and well curated packages for many different statistical analyses Poor and buggy integration with python, which is better as a general purpose programming language General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1995 male Black/African, White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Information Technologies Application engineer Sales 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T12:40:43Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually The simplicity in learning syntax and growing community of R lovers! Execution time for intense ML projects General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1995 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Religious non-profit Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:47:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested getting familiar with the logic behind it and how to better understand the documentation and its examples (probably due to my lack of prior knowledge) Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Mplus, STATA Yes Usually the idea of its flexibility is what fascinated me the most as well as the power it can have steep learning curve :) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same SPSS I am just getting started learning programming 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 0 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:53:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually close integration of all steps in a survey fieldwork. From sample selection, fieldwork analysis, data cleaning, reports and visualisation. learning curve, still cumbersome use labeled data. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, r-weekly Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS C/C++ 1978 male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Chile Education NA Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T12:54:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Makes data analysis easier and more enjoyable R documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1989 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Utilities Senior Risk Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2020-12-12T12:55:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The versatility regarding statistical analysis. Difficulty to go from package to package. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1977 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Portugal Education NA Educator 10 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T12:55:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Awesome resources and reproducible analysis Screen layout, it can be more wide screen friendly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1987 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Turkey Research Academic Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:56:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS R 1991 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) South Africa Education Lecturer Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:57:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Usually High quality documentation Not all NLP and ML methods available Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Cranberries RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Powerpoint I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Web apps for automating certain standard analyses I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 2.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Professional and Business Services Director Data Science Data scientist or analyst 100 Yes, definitely NA R-Bloggers English 2020-12-12T12:59:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, network analysis, writing scientific manuscripts/reports with *down ecosystem 4 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually highly standardised documentation for all packages and their functions (which I wish happens one day to all python libraries, not only the popular ones) and how amazingly easier rmarkdown has made my academic writing "some R errors are still hard to decode! I had the chance in multiple projects to collaborate with R user colleagues, our code was highly different and sometimes extremely hard to read/understand each others code and workflow. I guess more standardisation in that sense targeted at collaborative projects will help (like PEP guidelines in python?)" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, SPSS, Netlogo, SQL SPSS 1986 male middle eastern (It is not White as GSS in US says! see this: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1599130) Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research research scientist Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T12:59:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, GIS, network and spatiotemporal analyses 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Native support for tabular & vector formatted data as well as a strong and a friendly community. How it is often neglected in corporate environments in favor to proprietary alternatives (e.g. MS data products, SAS, etc.), perhaps due to a lack of professional support and services by IT companies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, DevOps, DB & server maintenance kind of operations Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic Python 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Finland Transportation Public transport planner & analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:00:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Visual Basic 1992 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Natural Resources and Mining Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T13:03:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Shiny Lots of my colleagues use Python, I feel lonely General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SQL Java 1992 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:05:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SQL server Yes Usually Support of great functional programming packages such as Tidyverse etc Learning material for ML Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1986 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:11:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Allows advanced data model confrontation Trying to remember specific complicated syntax for eg ggplot General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, R Pascal 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Researcher 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:14:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually It‘s exceptional community Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Visual Basic NA NA NA Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) NA Health Care and Medicine MD Medical professional 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:19:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Built-in functionalities for my use cases. Good matrix support Reusability of projects General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing, Scripting purposes JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, PyCharm 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Java, Javascript, Matlab, PHP, Python, R PHP 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research PhD student Researcher 20 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-12T13:21:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Occasionally This language is like a donkey, maybe a bit slow, but can carry so much cargo! Int64 needs to be built in... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease C/C++, Go, R Fortran95 1989 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research researcher Researcher 25 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:23:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Tidy verse and statistical analysis Package management. Need a virtual environment setup like Python. Hadleys backwards compatibility (though I agree for speed of development) can cause problems down the line Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, RMarkdown via email I expect it to decrease Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities Quant Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T13:25:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Visual Basic 1990 Female Asian, White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Russia Education NA Educator 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:26:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1990 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The syntax is easy to understand and explain N/A Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Generating analytics reports. I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1990 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Kenya Research Data analytics consultant Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:28:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) It was part of a course I took base R Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually design for humans (tidy tools manifesto) integrating code/package written in base R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), rweekly.org, r-bloggers.com Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic Basic NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA NA NA NA 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T13:35:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Base R was the hurdle, tidyverse is what catapulted my skills. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Readability and simplicity, free It feels less structred and strict than other languages like Python or C. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Currently just during meetings via Zoom. Will use in academic research publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Personal projects like a Reddit bot. And for image/video analysis and data extraction Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS Java 1996 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Graduate Student, Computational Biology Trainee Student 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:37:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Arabic language documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA NA NA NA NA three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1990 Female Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Oman Education NA Statistician NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-12T13:39:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It has been the best tool for data processing, visualization, and modeling that I have ever used. My main comparison would be against Python as the other major data science language. It is uncommon to use R in fields besides those related to some form of data science. This means likely need to learn a new language if I want to work in other fields. (This is more of a statement of fact than a complaint since R is very good for data science and there are other languages that are great for web apps, phone apps, servers, etc.) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Publishing websites with 'distill' I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, Swift C/C++ 1995 Male Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Graduate Student Researcher 20 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:42:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Distance learning at Uni of Glasgow, UK It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Accessable Things that could be similar are often very different General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month .RMD document to knit pdf I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase R R 1974 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Hungary Manufacturing NA Quality management 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-12T13:43:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, Conda, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS Excel 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Dataset Expert Financial professional 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:45:56Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually ggplot2 NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Na I expect it to increase 15/3=5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Excel, Javascript, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel NA NA NA Some college or university, no college degree Kenya Research NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:52:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 6 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Community Niche status General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1989 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate professor Educator 10 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T13:52:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Econometrics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually It can do everything and it keeps getting better. Some things run a bit slow and some things run slower than they need to (e.g. dplyr) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Voice coding NA 3 7 I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1988 Male Māori and Pākehā Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Research Economist Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:54:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started + carving out the time in my day job to do it More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1969 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistician Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:55:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), STATA No Usually So many possibilities on what you can do It's hard to remember functions to use Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, STATA C/C++ 1986 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Malawi Health Care and Medicine PhD student Statistician 4 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T13:56:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Ggplot and the ability to do pretty much anything. It has been a little like “come for ggplot, stay for the actual ability to do statistics”, but I have had to teach myself stats alongside R, which has obviously slowed down my . I have a humanities PhD, but used to program machine code on my c64. Getting into R after not programming for 25 years has been a little bit like coming home. The package ecosystem is still a bit overwhelming and save/load stuff is still a bit dangerous - I feel like I can never be totally sure that a csv will load correctly. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Almost exclusively Twitter Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, I teach Introductions to R for humanities/social science, and have recently started writing my tutorials in RMarkdown I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week PDF and HTML tutorial documents for my students I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Commodore 64 machine language 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Research Associate Professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T13:58:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually It allows me to do prettty much anything with no limits I wish it were more mainstream in the area I live and I didn’t have to defend using it to employers vs a Python Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Senior Director Management 6 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:00:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job More efficient data management and analysis Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SQL Server Yes Usually Speed, use of functions/packages instead of first principles I find the documentation of functions hard to understand General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), git I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day All my coding at the moment I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Israel Insurance Actuary Financial professional 6 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T14:00:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R JASS 1990 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Denmark Health Care and Medicine MD Medical professional 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:00:47Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job More efficient data management and analysis Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SQL Server Yes Usually Speed, use of functions/packages instead of first principles I find the documentation of functions hard to understand General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), git I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day All my coding at the moment I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Israel Insurance Actuary Financial professional 6 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-12T14:09:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab Excel 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Research Assistant professor Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:15:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, shiny proxy Yes Usually ease of use performance, lack of multi threading on windows General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), shiny proxy I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Mapping applications, workflow support in planning (enter data and store to db) I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, multi purpose web app developement (mainly flask) Visual Studio Code, docker 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R Java 1988 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Switzerland Insurance data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T14:17:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 A&B I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 3 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually open source community I suck at coding! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA R R 1975 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Founder & Chief Investment Officer Management 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:19:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I can contribute by building my own packages It is not so production ready yet General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1985 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Egypt Health Care and Medicine Machine Learning Engineer Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:21:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Visualization 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I love working in R. I love stat packages and ggplot2. I am now learning Machine Learning. Getting started was the hardest for me. I tried with youtube, but I needed a comprehensive course to bring it all together. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Mostly twitter and to a lesser extent, blogs Email, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month I am learning Shiny. Plan to use it to do interactive tables and dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to increase R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1945 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining Land Manager Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:21:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Needed to manipulate very large datasets Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Problem solving, plotting Different syntaxes across packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Sharing results with non-R users I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Interactive plots I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1982 Male New Zealander Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Research Research Officer Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:22:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Image analysis 4 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Libreoffice Yes Usually For almost every problem, there is a package, a documentation page, a blog post, or some other source that helps me solve it. Too many learning resources are focussed on RStudio. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Image analysis NA 2 9 I expect it to increase R, Bash scripting Basic 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Research Professor Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:25:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 JupyterHub, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Rarely Community NA Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis JupyterHub, R, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Visual Studio Code 5 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ NA NA Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Financial Services and Activities Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-12T14:27:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 10 Databricks, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Open source Dodgy packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Matlab, R Matlab 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Property Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:28:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Native stats capabilities and R online community Productionalizing and automating R scripts and analyses s General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Internal shiny server I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I plan to stop using it Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I plan to stop using it Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Scripting and testing Visual Studio Code, Intellij 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R C/C++ 1982 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Transportation Software developer Software developer 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:29:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau No Usually Rusabil6y, can check exactly what I did. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Slovenia Health Care and Medicine Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:29:17Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, RViews, CRAN Packages by date Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month networking stuff like netmiko using reticulate NA 3 6 I expect it to stay the same R, Bash scripting... nice to have R and the tidyverse now at hand Forth (oh dear) 1966 male White, Native German ;-) Diploma in Electrical Engineering (don´t know how it translates...) Germany Insurance NA None 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T14:30:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Python No Usually CRAN's strict packaging policies leading to a consistent base to build tools on NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora NA Personal blog or web site owned by you, org-mode LaTeX and HTML documents I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Emacs 5 7 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Information Technologies Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:34:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work never programmed anything before so everything was hard for me! More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Slack I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating scientific report I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1973 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Researcher Researcher 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:37:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually Community Dependencies, Breaking Changes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R, SAS, SPSS Javascript 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Biometry Statistician 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:42:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Strong familiarity with language Proliferation of packages without adequate testing and maintenance General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R R 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate student Researcher 12 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:49:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Nothing More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally It offers many possibilities "NA" Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1974 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Colombia Education Professor Statistician 10 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:51:43Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, SPSS Yes Occasionally The interface is very user-friendly It is sometimes difficult to find the origin of an error General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SPSS Excel 1995 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Research PhD candidate Student 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T14:52:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 NA I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, develop proof of concept apps such as https://stats-consult.shinyapps.io/shinyparser_poc/ I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization, Financial analysis notepad++ 3 5 I expect it to decrease Javascript, PHP, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic, html, css Visual Basic 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine Statistical Programmer Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely R Pharma conference From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-12T15:06:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Community of packages/wrappers No easy way to connect to remote R instance on VM using IDE General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, documenting SQL queries I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SQL Visual Basic 1986 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Advertising/media Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-12T15:12:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Less than once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually How easy it is to analyze data and how fluid data analysis process tends to go with R. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing PyCharm 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1985 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Data Science Manager Management 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T15:14:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Yes Usually Figuring out how to do what I want Not understanding error messages and language used in online communities General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 2000 Female White, Portuguese Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Research Lab technician Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T15:16:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It is open source and has a large contributing community. Lack of content regarding deploying shiny apps and models into production. For example, I have a R script for a shiny app which can't seem to be run by a Windows batch file. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 1 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1985 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Singapore Natural Resources and Mining Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T15:16:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, R C/C++ 1984 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Financial Services and Activities Risk manager Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T15:17:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community and range of packages Not as accepted as Python in job descriptions and in the data science community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1991 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Environmental Analyst Environmental Engineer 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T15:24:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2001 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Speed. Elegant syntax. Need to know package is available. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic FORTRAN 1972 NA NA NA NA Consulting NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T15:25:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I wanted to migrate out of MATLAB for scientific computing Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Dplyr + ggplot2 RStudio sometimes crashes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Matlab, R Matlab 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Research Scientific officer Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T15:28:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1991 Female Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Research Statistical Genetics Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T15:28:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Simulation 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Functionnal programming and data management Performance General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Java, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, Visual Basic Basic 1979 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Research Scientist Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T15:38:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R is a workflow tool which enables and empowers me to do most of my work using just one tool and using code, where in the past I used three or four tools and a lot of manual work.. Additionally I can do all the fancy stuff like interactive viz, dashboards, html reports and .... NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Rweekly Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 4 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R Turbo Pascal 1973 Male European Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Professional and Business Services Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T15:46:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I like R generally. But these days ggplot2 and its great extensions ML packages maybe, base plot General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, It is generally discovered with need Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Excel 1996 Male Azerbaijan(Caucasia) Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Azerbaijan Financial Services and Activities Risk Modelling Specialist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T15:53:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Community changes/deprecation of packages and functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None R 1974 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Biostatistician Statistician 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-12T16:01:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses The forking of R support groups, where some use just base R and others force the tidyverse family of packages before helping with a problem. Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 6 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely Open source Tidyverse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R C/C++ 1990 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral research scholar Researcher 1 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T16:01:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Tableau Yes Usually Fast insights, professional reports, readable syntax. Somewhat limited compared to a “true” programming language like Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau SPSS 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Manager of Data Analysis Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T16:09:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Information that is available from the R community. Reluctance of Python users to learn R, which create walls between practitioners. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Incorporate into lectures for my students I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating handouts for teaching I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, Tableau FORTRAN 1949 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Instructor Educator 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T16:14:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 3 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually Dplyr piping and workflow Hard to understand error messages for non-programmers. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, SPSS 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel 1994 man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Market research methodologist Statistician 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T16:17:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Tableau No Occasionally Can do more than just stats Could perform better General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Automate tasks and email reports I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Tableau Visual Basic 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Sr data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T16:20:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Wide adoption, coding style, user community Documentation might need a bit of brush up. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R, Visual Basic, C# C/C++ 1972 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-12T16:26:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Complex vizualisation Problems when installing packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1989 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Education Associate professor Educator 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T16:29:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Vscode, docker, shinyproxy No Usually Versatility Dependency management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R Commodore basic 1977 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Statistical ecologist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T16:33:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job part of the MSC programme Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, ETL automation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Community, open sources Hard to Google for rare problems General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, ETL automation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Spyder 3 8 I expect it to increase R R 1975 male European Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Hungary Transportation business analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T16:33:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested The gap between capable and proficiency More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually On top of base statistical capability, it provides a compelling answer to a number of general use functions. NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating company static reports, for internal and external consumption I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, Tableau, Visual Basic, Qlik C/C++ 1990 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Insurance Lead Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T16:34:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Community - Ease of coding Performance (memory performance) especially on local machines General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Tableau Excel 1993 female Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Egypt Financial Services and Activities Data Analytics Consultant Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-12T16:36:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 All of the above. I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 7 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA It's very ergonomic when working interactively. The syntax is simple and it's easy to code in a functional style. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RMarkdown reports shared internally I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Sharing results of analyses internally within my company I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Deployment pipelines VIM THE ONE TRUE EDITOR 2 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Clojure R 1990 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T16:40:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1996 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Mapping 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Making reproducible analyses I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, R BASIC - 1980 1972 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Church Statistician Statistician 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T16:42:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Easy to read and to teach + great community The more you know the more you don't know General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 2 6 I expect it to stay the same R R 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Education Lecturer Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T16:43:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually RMarkdown Name conflicts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Blog posts RMarkdown ot HTML I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, R, SAS, Tableau Fortran NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Education Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T16:51:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Amazon Web Services Yes Usually I feel like I can do anything if I put in enough work. Some teams at work are afraid of R (from both the SAS direction and the Python direction). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R4DS Online Learning Community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Shiny Server, Google sheets I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating documentation and reports as package vignettes I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 2 2 I plan to stop using it R BASIC (Commodore) 1975 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-12T16:51:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Book, Online, Workshop, & On Job I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to use Package too much General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation I save in my personal computers I expect it to increase I use R in my HR jobs to visualise and Wrangling data now, i want to modeling and prediction in next year Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Spyder, Google Collaboratory 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Matlab 1990 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Indonesia Survey HR Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T17:10:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, rpubs No Usually It allows easy manipulation of data ML libraries aren't as developed as python's "General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, The general ""help"" tab in rstudio" Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, neutral networks Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic R 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Insurance fraud analyst Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T17:11:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data exploration and visualization Debugging Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1988 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Nonprofit Business systems developer Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T17:13:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually flexibility data format checking General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1982 NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Research postdoc Researcher 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T17:18:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course to build econometric model for many packages description is not sufficient, not always intuitively clear Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually simplicity when you call functions from a package, but it does not work, you try and fail General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, copy into text documents I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, interactive charts I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Visual Basic 1979 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Latvia Research senior researcher Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T17:25:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested The byzantine rules for package development More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Docker Yes Usually Tidyverse and the free and open licenses, and the plumber package Shiny Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora R Top 40 packages Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, unfortunately FOSS-free shiny and plumber authentication options are slim I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda 3 10 I expect it to increase Go, Python, R, Rust, Docker Pascal 1974 NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Research Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T17:28:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses and automated them. Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally easy to get analyses done even at the beginner level environment management and reproducibilities General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Production Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1987 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) New Zealand Research research associate Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-12T17:29:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 6 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud Yes Usually It's greqt Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com NA Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1997 Female Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Spain Research Biostatistician Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) NA English 2020-12-12T17:31:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Interactive User App to connect to a plumber api and other api endpoints I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Geospatial data analysis Anaconda 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R Python 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Research associate Researcher 1 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T17:37:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), vim. VScode Yes Usually It thinks like I do Sometimes weird things happen and code behaves in ways I don’t expect General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R weekly Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code, Kite sublime 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau, bash awk Qbasic 1986 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Education Data scientist and analytics trainer Data scientist or analyst 30 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T17:38:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Moving, unzipping, etc of files 5 9 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Tidyverse Running out of memory General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, RStudio support Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R weekly Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Deployment to RStudio connect I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Manager of Data Analysis Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T17:42:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Data manipulation is so easy and powerful Web scraping and RPA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1977 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Colombia Professional and Business Services Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T17:43:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis, Epidemiology 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Reproducible analyses. Nil. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five. Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1964 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Education Professor Educator 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T17:43:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 8 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1995 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Financial Services and Activities Working Student Financial professional 1 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T17:50:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Shiny Server Yes Usually Easy to understand syntax (tidyverse) Slow in comparison Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Researcher Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T17:56:54Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested inconsistent capitalization and naming conventions Less than once a month Microsoft Windows haven't progressed sufficiently to utilize. 3 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA inconsistent capitalization commands General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, T-SQL RBase 1960 male Asian, White, Native American, Pacific Islander Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Chief Technology and Data Analytics Officer Management 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup R meetup group English 2020-12-12T18:07:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Power NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, Tableau Fortran 1976 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Sr PRogram Manager Statistician 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T18:11:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibility Lacking visualization of objects General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R BASIC 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Information Technologies Operations Intern Operations 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T18:21:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Rmarkdown Mystery error messaging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS SAS 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Biostatistician Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T18:22:53Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Just getting started Between once a day and once a week windows + linux Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually open source, fantastic community, flexible, resourceful not as good for selenium compared to python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day automation Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1985 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine physician, MD Medical professional 0 NA NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T18:27:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Medicine 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Versatility! I find it quite difficult, especially when you don’t know where a problem exactly is General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None I am just getting started learning programming 1983 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Italy Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional 0 No, not really R Medicine conference R-bloggers English 2020-12-12T18:31:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy syntax and great visualization Dealing with factors and base subsetting General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Visualizing results for stakeholders I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Spyder 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R Matlab 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Research Research assistant Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T18:31:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data manipulation and plotting. Can be a little slow. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization NA 2 6 I expect it to stay the same R R NA Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Research Scientist Researcher 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T18:38:45Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Genomics, Bibliometric analysis 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Possibilities seem endless Huge learning curve Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Education NA Educator 100 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T18:55:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1993 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Research Fellow Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T19:05:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally that it is such a user-friendly gateway drug to programing ggplot General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research doctoral student Student 4 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T19:13:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse & pipes Different class systems General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R Visual Basic 1960 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Lecturer Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T19:22:31Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Excel NA NA NA NA NA Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-12T19:32:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) Curiosity Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 4 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Interactivity Nothing Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Di not share I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Connect 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R, Rust, Delphi DbIII - Clipper 1959 Male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Italy Information Technologies NA Software developer NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T19:35:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Graduate School It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Intuitive. Easiest way to work with data. Keeping packages updated; determining what is/isn’t still supported. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T19:44:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Functional capabilities Lack of single easily available resource. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Fortran 1945 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Self Founder, CTO Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-12T19:56:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Never its excellence for working with data how the tidiverse is divisive General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, website directly with hugo I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation command-line 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R Visual Basic 1966 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Statistician 10 Neutral UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Finance conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:03:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Geospatial analyses and remote sensing 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Whitebox tools, taudem, saga gis, grass gis No Occasionally "Nearly unlimited versatility, i.e. ""there's a package for everything""" "Pressure from the community to ""optimize"" everything done in R. No matter how you implement some analyses or functions, people will say that you should REALLY take a different approach." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None R 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoc Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:17:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The community is wonderful The sometimes cryptic error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Teaching I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Logo 1976 Male Asian, Pacific Islander Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Assistant Professor Bioinformatician 25 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:25:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Production 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Very quick to go from data to result Conflicts in style between tidyverse and base R Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Visual Basic 1986 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies Principal Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:31:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1986 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:33:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities I was SAS user, so can't understand how to use other data types except data.frame More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse like packages Slow speed , inefficient memory usage General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Power point I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 2.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1975 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Korea, South Insurance Senior manager Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:35:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Its a very flexible open source tool RAM ussage Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 4 I expect it to stay the same R, Netlogo R 1981 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Chile Research Postdoctoral Researcher Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:36:42Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Mostly online, but used at work. Learning while doing. Work and it became a hobby. Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Salesforce, and occasionally MySQL Yes Usually When I get my code working, it can save me a lot of time by making repeatable tasks a breeze. This week alone R saved me about 20 hours worth work to clean data by hand in excel. The learning curve is steep. It’s my first attempt as coding and it took me a while to learn how to think about my approach to problems. Lots of resources out there talking about why you should learn to code, but not much about how to approach a new problem. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Pdf scraping. So few resources to learn this in R, but I have to do this frequently and R struggles with it. Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SQL Excel 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Political campaigns Data Coordinator Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:38:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing JupyterHub 3 9 I expect it to increase Python, R Java 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 7 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:39:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), postgres Yes Usually The community! Error handling. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, R, postgres 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic, regex qbasic 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Lecturer, Post Doctoral Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:41:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Sublime text, atom No Usually All the amazing tools, tips, and tricks from the active R community Inefficient with big data General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization Sublime text, atom 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Statistical analyst Data scientist or analyst 12 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T20:43:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It handled large datasets (acoustic) better than matlab Big data Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Open acces to others, including students Needing to remind myself syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Visualization, Geospatial Anaconda, Conda, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:00:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted better facilities and graphics over what I was already using. Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually How comprehensive it is, plus all the cutting-edge tecniques. Installation, and package version management. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Local R-users group, and giving courses for students. I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Demonstrating to students I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Learning how to interface R with python. R 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1957 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Research Scientist (now retired) Retired 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T21:01:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually I can solve problems that I otherwise couldn’t Not a CSer so sometimes those developer/programmer concepts are lost on me General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau BASIC NA NA NA NA NA Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:01:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The flexibility to work with any and all data that I am required to analyze My organization does not support it General search such as Google - the first button wouldn’t work General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Word documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, R 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Basic - not Visual Basic 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Director of Clinical Research Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:02:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Python No Usually Data manipulation, simple and makes sense Always lags behind Python when it comes to support for latest Tensorflow/Torch package versions. I'm also usually the first one to discover some obscure new bug when implementing something non-standard in these packages. Kills my motivation to keep using R for deep learning. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R Python 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:03:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), I often compare statistical analyses in R with Jamovi and SPSS Yes Usually Seeing what amazing tools people in the R community create, which also helps me learn a lot about computer science and stats. When something does not work for me as expected I will not stop thinking about it and working on it until I get it work. It is exhausting (but also fun). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month I am attempting to learn more shiny to use it as a teaching tool I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SPSS SPSS 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate student (PhD candidate in clinical psychology) Student 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:10:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Advanced methods, flexibility, power of programming, webapps and community It is difficult to learn the core concepts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Deep learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1969 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Associate Professor Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-12T21:10:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually elegant data manipulation troubleshooting errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Databricks 2 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS Java 1985 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Accommodation and Food Services principal data scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:14:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it R R 1995 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Solar Monitoring specialist None 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T21:20:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month acoustic analysis NA 2 4 I expect it to increase R R 1991 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Student 2 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:33:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually It‘s easy to learn, yet powerful NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, R, Visual Basic Basic & TurboPascal 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:34:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested R Materials aren't in my native language Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, SPSS, Tableau Yes Rarely - - General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1989 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Indonesia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistician Data scientist or analyst 11 Neutral RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:37:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Linux(or Unix) Command line Yes Usually reproducible data analysis by tidyverse + other statistical packages + rmarkdown rstudio lag Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, google drive, one drive I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), sublimtext3 4 8 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R, Perl R NA male Asian Some college or university, no college degree Japan Not Employed NA Student 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:38:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Its simplicity and power Reading its documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Excel NA Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Not Employed NA None NA Neutral R Finance conference From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-12T21:42:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1990 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Tidyverse Data types are awful and confusing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, fortran, perl basic 1954 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Not Employed chief bottle washer Retired 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T21:46:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Health Care and Medicine Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:46:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidy verse ggolot Na General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week For own use I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 2 4 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Excel 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Finance analyst Financial professional 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:48:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The ggplot package is so cool, I really like it. Support of big data. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1992 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) China Not Employed NA Student 1 No, not really RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:48:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Managing packages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 2 4 NA Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I plan to stop using it five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS R 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Research NA Student 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:49:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SAS, Shiny Server, VS Code Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Medicine Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic, PowerShell Matlab 1992 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Data Engineer Data scientist or analyst 7 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:50:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually NA Processing speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, internal company reports I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1983 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Senior Scientist Consultant or Advisor 6 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:52:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1995 female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Malaysia Professional and Business Services Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T21:56:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested A lot of things I do (aggregation, etc) were considerably more troublesome before the tidyverse. I wasted a huge amount of time on xts and friends before discovering I did not need them. More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Network performance and security. 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Interactive data analysis that easily becomes a batch report. Results getting stuck in a weird data structure, like a list that needs to be in a data frame. I have much of it figured out by now, but can still get stuck. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Of course Google usually takes me to Stack Overflow or Rstudio R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML (previously PDF) reports and dashboards to share inside my organization. I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Hardware (usually sensors) interfacing when code already exists. NA 2 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, R, Perl FORTRAN 1955 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Technical Adviser Network performance and security engineering 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T22:02:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually the user community - wide availability of packages for various applications incomplete/inadequate documentation of functions - tidyverse packages set a good example, thanks! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1972 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Researcher 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-12T22:12:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually The wide array of packages that the user community have developed. I continue to be amazed by the things I can do with R. I have very few collaborators who use R, which makes it hard to use in certain projects. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public working papers, conference presentations, memos etc. I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Basic (on an Atari 800XL) 1970 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Principal Economist Researcher 20 No, not really Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-12T22:35:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Java, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R Javascript 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Transportation NA Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T22:36:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually easy data manipulation and visualization, finding and using new packages none General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1981 male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Japan Information Technologies head of HR Tech & BPR HR 10 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T22:38:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Seemingly infinite flexibility and there’s a package for any problem I can think of. Also ggplot makes the best figures ever. I don’t really understand how tidyverse works and why it’s different/better and I find some of these basic issues hard to navigate. Most stuff I’ve learned I kind of had to start from the end and work backwards. Having said that I never took a proper course. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, This year I modified one of my grad stats classes to be in R so a lot happening in the classroom now I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Visual Basic 1980 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Associate Professor Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T22:43:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually Functional style. Packages Debugging! But I also kind of love it. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau, Racket Excel 1985 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Program manager Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-12T22:45:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, PHP, R BASIC NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-12T22:49:34Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I love how intuitive the syntax is and the breath of documentation and resources. Sometimes I don't know how to improve my skills (self-taught) or learn what packages would make my work more efficient. I often have to turn to twitter to know what current packages users enjoy. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, JASP SPSS 1993 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research PhD Trainee Student 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T22:53:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Being able to google my problems There are 100 ways to solve my problem. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day I think it's easier to organize my R codes this way. I like working with chunks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Html 1989 female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate student Student 2 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-12T22:55:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Reproducible statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Server; Google drive I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS SAS 1988 Female Asian, White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral Research Associate Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T23:00:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually R gets out of my way and lets me analyze data. I think about the data, not the programming language. Memory hungry. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards using HTML I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 1 4 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Director, Data Insights & Analytics Management 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-12T23:07:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server No Usually I like that R makes it easy to quickly explore data and iterate on an analysis. It's very easy to pull a new dataset together and start generating insights without too much programming overhead. Compiling R packages with bundled C/C++ code on Linux. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Server 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS, bash, Stata SAS 1992 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Finance conference Twitter English 2020-12-12T23:07:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, github Yes Usually Syntax makes sense, easy to learn, user packages provide a lot of ways for me to analyse my data, powerful enough for what I need to do statistically without being cumbersome to learn, amazing visuals Building shiny apps is not as intuitive as the rest of R. It seems very different from the other R interfaces General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel 1995 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Epidemiologist Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T23:31:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Datacamp) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Matlab, R Matlab 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-12T23:31:29Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax I don't use R any more Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python Yes Rarely ease of use, strong community support, packages lack of proper language syntax and structure, not the greatest documentation for some packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-12T23:36:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1990 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually tidyverse speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 1 1 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R fortran 1962 male NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Natural Resources and Mining NA Management 10 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-12T23:54:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It makes more sense to me than other programming languages. Functions that share similar names and purposes in different packages that have significantly different implementations. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, In my statistics classes that I teach. I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1969 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-13T00:11:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Server Yes Usually tidyvers, especially dplyr. it's the best pachage to cleaning data not only among R and Python, but any other software in the world. Though improving, bultin features of R is poor compared with other modern languages like module system. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R R 1991 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Japan Professional and Business Services Data Engineer Software developer 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T00:30:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the opensource community sometimes my old functions dont run because the function names in tidyverse change quite frequently Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, writing my thesis I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, webscraping Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1986 male high-elf Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Research project consultant Researcher 3 NA RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2020-12-13T00:31:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually no cost NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None SPSS 1980 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Biologist Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T00:32:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally regression analysis github python Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, R 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, R Matlab 1957 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Korea, South Education researcher and lecturer Researcher 0 Neutral RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-13T00:33:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Bioconductor packages, tidyverse and beautiful plots NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 2 10 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1991 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research Bioinformatics scientists Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T00:43:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis NA 7 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It’s concise and has pretty much every tool I need for analysis of experimental results. The syntax can be quirky. I feel like I have to look things up more often when using r because the syntax is easier to forget compared to other languages. Also, sometimes there are too many ways to do the same thing. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, Swift Visual Basic 1984 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Acoustic Researcher Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T00:53:43Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Sr. Manager, Data Science Statistician 5 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T01:10:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I was personally interested Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R R 1996 male Asian One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree China Health Care and Medicine Bioinformatics Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T01:17:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Reports I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Logo 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Natural Resources and Mining Scientist Consultant or Advisor 4 Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-13T01:19:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Interoperability, many packages available, R Markdown, R Shiny, Tidyverse Error messages, Help is sometimes difficult to read General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating word, PowerPoint, and HTML5 docs I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive Simulation of complex math equations I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Basic, Pascal 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Chemicals Vice President Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-13T01:29:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community . NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Still learning it NA 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1982 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Botswana Education Lecturer Educator 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-13T01:35:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, writing about the above 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, various omics programs No Usually visualisation, community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Java, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, SPSS Java 1971 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom research AND higher education senior lecturer (professor) researcher and educator 2 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-13T01:50:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The freedom I get to build models from the scratch and the community support It’s memory management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Julia, PHP, R C/C++ 1989 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sri Lanka Professional and Business Services Director Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T01:50:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA Data table visualization, filtering General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research NA Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T01:59:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Go, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic Z80 assembly 1970 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Hong Kong Financial Services and Activities NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T02:09:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The visualisation and the online community for help The difficulty in loading DHS data which is in dta format. For this one reason I had to purchase STATA. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it None R 1986 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Health Care and Medicine PhD Scholar Student 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T02:22:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ 1981 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Portugal Research Assistant Professor Researcher 2 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T02:29:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The large set of packages that are available. Sometimes it is difficult to figure out what is implemented in a package (for advanced statistics) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, I like to prepare exploratory analysis in Rmarkdown and I share my (quite heavy) .html with a file sharing documents system (like Dropbox) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, teaching applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, R Fortran 1979 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Education Lecturer Educator 0 NA NA Email English 2020-12-13T02:44:01Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually logic that underpins it learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Tableau 1964 female White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Australia Health Care and Medicine doctor / researcher Medical professional 3 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-13T02:49:32Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Automation of repetitive tasks Steep learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Arcgis Arcgis 4 10 I expect it to decrease Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1983 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Malaysia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research officer Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T02:51:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Web Scraping / Accessing APIs 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Being able to do everything for my analyses in one environment Keeping packages/R installations up to date and fixing problems afterwards General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Sending RMarkdown PDF or HTML via email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Java 1997 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Education Student Student 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-13T02:58:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Very friendly, supportive user community Slow with big data sets General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel Visual Basic 1976 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research research fellow Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-13T03:06:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Docker, SQL (all purpose) Yes Occasionally Data manipulation (data.table), shiny Lower demand in market, compared to Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, As library over git or prototype through docker I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing JupyterLab 3.0 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Latvia Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T03:09:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Econometric analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Macroeconomic analysis/ dynamic programming Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab 2 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R R 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Japan Research Graduate student Student 10 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T03:17:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1988 Male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Israel Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T03:18:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually tidyverse OOP, S6 classes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R SPSS 1985 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Russia Telecommunications Head of analytics Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA r-bloggers English 2020-12-13T03:27:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Stata Yes Usually Open Source, fast Data preparation with Big Data (using data.table) There is No Proper package Like margins in stata that allows to Predict average marginal effects of Models with Interactions terms with correct Standard Errors. In think there should be easier Integration of Data Bases and Machine learning for use in Business, governement and NGO. Would be nice If R Studio would Develop Something Like the tidyverse for Machine learning (making it easy to Unserstand and accessible). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Stata Stata 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Research Scientific collaborator Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T03:28:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1990 Male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Insurance Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-13T03:43:29Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Resources readily available. Data types are confusing sometimes. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo I do it for myself. I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Financial analysis RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1994 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bangladesh Financial Services and Activities MTO Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T03:50:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It allows me to express code is a English-like format which produces very readable code. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Financial analysis Anaconda, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Python 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Insurance Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-13T04:09:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Ease of use Code style General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Proof of concepts I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Excel 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Switzerland Information Technologies Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-13T04:11:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, cartography 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually We can do everything The hate other language users have for us General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1983 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Professional and Business Services Data scientist Consultant or Advisor 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-13T04:17:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, Shinyapps.io No Usually RStudio interface Not as preferred as python in some businesses General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Matlab 1992 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Utilities Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T04:44:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ggplot2 Date formats (PerformanceAnalytics) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 2 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1973 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities AD Researcher 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T04:54:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 6 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Open source So many overlapping packages that do almost the same thing, often with totally different approaches under the hood. Hard to work out which is best to use :) Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Guided decision making tools for non-technical users I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, JupyterHub, R 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Go, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic R 1986 Male Mixed Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Health Care and Medicine Associate Director Data scientist or analyst 500 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-13T05:00:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually You can do almost everything Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS R 1990 male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Financial Services and Activities Financial Advisor Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat R Finance conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T05:01:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Visual Basic SPSS 1993 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine Research Fellow Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T05:03:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Great community None Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Text processing, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Tableau R 1979 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) China Professional and Business Services Financial Auditor Chartered Accountant Financial professional 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Finance conference Twitter English 2020-12-13T05:20:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R packages He beeing a single thread. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase NA C/C++ 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Information Technologies Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T05:22:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 8 I expect it to increase R Excel 1995 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland NA Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-13T05:23:45Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Great community, powerful tools, and plenty of online resources Still switching back and forth with stata when I need to be fast on a task General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Stata SPSS 1985 F White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Education Assistant professor Educator NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-13T05:26:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Lots of Packages no General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, gitbook I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, R, SPSS, Visual Basic, Perl QBasic 1962 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Korea, South Education Professor Educator 0 No, not at all RStudio::conf E-mail from RStduio Blog English 2020-12-13T05:30:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to decrease Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to decrease Julia, Python, R, SPSS, C# Pascal 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Russia Education NA Researcher 11 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T05:33:25Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Great learning resources and ease of use for otherwise tedious tasks. Sometimes slow and crasches. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R Javascript 1983 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Information Technologies front end developer Software developer 0 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-13T05:55:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Packages Same command, different actions Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel Excel 1978 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Research associate Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T05:58:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Managing packages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, dcron (https://pypi.org/project/dcron/) Yes Usually Easy to use IDE Too many packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing, Webscraping Jupyter Notebooks, PyCharm 2 4 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, R C/C++ 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Education Developer / PhD Student Data scientist or analyst 4 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T06:03:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Well documented manuals Documents not always simple/straight to understand General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1954 male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Consultant Statistician 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T06:04:51Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is It is so fast and for stats analyses, someone has always done before so I can source code Concerns that I am not using it properly Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors I tend to use just what I know from courses Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R NA Female Eurasian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Hong Kong Research Research Scientist Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T06:08:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually The sole reason I use R regularly is because of the tidyverse, which makes coding really intuitive. Also, it’s the lingua franca of statisticians, but the syntax imposed by tidyverse is the reason R is my standard language for exploratory data analysis. I don’t like writing packages in R. If I need to write a package, I feel it is cleaner to use Python. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Bioinformatician Researcher 100 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T06:13:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually easy to use, power even on a small machine manage version package and connection configuration Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1968 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Utilities head of business analyst Management 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T06:24:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Databricks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually dplyr "a lot of the ""new"" stuff is developed first in python" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts expose the data for different BI tools I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Java, Python, R Java 1987 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Consulting Senior Consultant for Datascience Consultant or Advisor NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-13T06:29:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 5 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Creating visualisations. Helpful and knowledgeable R users such as Dave Robinson, Julia Silge, Tom Mock, Yury Zablotski, Ted Laderas and TidyX, who share their knowledge via screencasts and really helpful blogs. I have learned so much from these people, especially Dave Robinson and Julia Silge, who is outstanding. I also like R-Bloggers Snobbery and Stack Overflow, which can be a hostile and intimidating environment for anyone seeking answers. It's off-putting and, generally, unfriendly. Also, even the most basic of queries can elicit overly-complex responses that can you leave you just as confused or even more confused than before. The error messages that R generates are an issue as well. It was a major obstacle for me as a beginner. It can be hard, almost impossible, to decipher what they are trying to impart. Likewise, most of the accompanying explanations generated via the 'help' section within R Studio. There appear to be few educators out there who can distil the essence of R into easy, understandable terms. Some almost use it as an opportunity to showcase how good they are and highlight how inadequate you are, rather than to inform. At least, that is the impression I get, especially in relation to Stack Overflow. To that extent, a certain degree of snobbery exists within the community. At the same time, it has to be said, and acknowledged, that there are lots of R users who couldn't be more helpful. They act as a welcome counter-balance to the perceived negative influences that exist General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Twitter, too, for visualisations. As an outlet, though, I think it has very limited value for showcasing your work. But that is a shortcoming on my part for choosing that avenue as my preferred outlet up to this point. In the future, I plan to use GitHub and Netlify I expect it to increase """Five""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Yet to create any publication-ready articles via R Markdown. I have been experiencing technical difficulties using it, without knowing what the precise issue or issues causing the problem to begin with I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1964 Male White I am not sure which of those categories pertain to me. Just to clarify, degree and postgraduate level (Ireland) Ireland Sports journalism Football (soccer) correspondent; sports sub-editor Statistician 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-13T06:30:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Databricks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Documentation, consistency in tidyverse, functional approach. Packaging system with R xls check. DBI dplyr databricks integrations. RStudio as a PBC to support the community. Lagging behind Python in core production tech. mlflow deployment tools, Less support in cloud platforms than Python, tidymodels support for pipelines I gliding pre-processing that sklearn has for a while. Inability to build CLI tools with R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to decrease three Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Aws sagenaker 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T06:34:03Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1995 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Malaysia Not Employed NA None 1 No, not at all NA Facebook English 2020-12-13T06:36:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Go, R R 1993 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research Researcher Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-13T06:40:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, CRAN I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R SQL 1982 NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Education Senior Research Fellow Consultant or Advisor 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T06:44:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SAS Yes Usually Powerfulness RAM and CPU consumption, difficult to understand errors and warnings General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, PHP, Python, R, SAS R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Economist Statistician 250 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T07:05:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), DBeaver Yes Usually It is a very powerful language for data cleaning or manipulation and visualization. Documentation is not always clear. Lack of examples showing full potential of packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1970 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Portugal Environmental and water quality management Engineer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T07:12:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS Yes Occasionally Visualization None Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 2 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SAS 1972 NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Korea, South Education Professor Statistician NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T07:18:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to learn That companies do not use it most cases and prefer Python. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1986 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Russia Research Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2020-12-13T07:21:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, WEB scrapping 5 8 JupyterLab 2.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, ShinyProxy Yes Occasionally Rich data wrangling ecosystem "Multiple syntax ""standards"" (base, tidy, data.table, etc)" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), ShinyProxy I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing JupyterLab 2.0, R, RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code, Google colab 5 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, bash, SQL R 1984 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Latvia Trade (Retail or Wholesale) DBA Process automation 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Telegram channel English 2020-12-13T07:50:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually tidyverse syntax, great packages for (static or interactive) data visualization package reproducibility/dependency management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel NA male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research NA Researcher NA Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T07:52:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python Yes Occasionally easy to code and explain the code NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, R 3 6 I expect it to increase R, Tableau R 1996 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Professional and Business Services Junior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T07:59:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 YouTube It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Elegance N/A General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Automation NA 4 10 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R R 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Education Senior research associate Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T08:01:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 3 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Occasionally NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same "If you want to know about ""R ""globally, you should be request to translation word to each country lanuage partly, Please !. You are lucky man or woman because you are speaking and writing English." I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, R, SPSS Javascript 1960 man Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Korea, South Education professor. retired Educator NA I'm not sure RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-13T08:14:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Julia, R Shell 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Pdf Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T08:20:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually it's potential and the fast analysis NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, r-weekly Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation NA 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1974 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Transportation Engineer Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T08:20:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Shiny / ease of use New pipe syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Python, R C/C++ 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Information Technologies Head of Management 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T08:21:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Versatility. R-script version control. Lack of EndNote bibliographic implementation/plugin for use of bibliographic software when writing scientific articles in rmarkdown. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Research Doctoral student Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T08:22:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The ever helpful community. The code samples on the official tidyverse docs. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Javascript, R, Tableau C/C++ 1983 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Information Technologies Manager Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-13T08:27:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1959 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education professor Educator 12 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-13T08:37:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested NA More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Using the RStudio IDE and packages Issues with system dependencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS R 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-13T08:43:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages I don't use R any more Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Intuitive graphics None General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, twitter I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Genomics Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, PHP, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1986 Male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Malaysia Health Care and Medicine Teaching and Research Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-13T08:47:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually tidyverse, dataframes operations and ggplot NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Rstudio blog subscription Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Machine learning R, PyCharm 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1988 male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research CTO Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-13T08:55:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1976 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Research NA Researcher 0 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T09:05:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 3 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Web Marketing 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA current popularity Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation NA Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R Visual Basic 1981 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Slack English 2020-12-13T09:36:32Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 7 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually I like the syntax, as well as the flexibility. And I love tidyverse I don’t use it enough to have any “professional” gripes. In general I love it, and I’m usually the bottleneck, not the other way around . Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Consulting Senior manager Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T09:37:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The comprehensive R Tidyverse ecosystem Creating user interface in Shiny app Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Python 1986 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Malaysia Health Care and Medicine Procurement Analyst Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Facebook English 2020-12-13T09:45:06Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Translating learned principles to useful exercises in my specific life science research work. What I wanted to do is more complicated than what I know how to do. (Beginners problem) Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Visualization, Medicine 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reusability of visualization scripts. Ability to share results understandably with people who don’t know R (I probably should start learning R Markdown) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Coursera, Udemy Email, Print graphs, email those to colleagues. I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Learning it now JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to increase None R 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research associate Researcher 50 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-13T10:06:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Automating generation of reports 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Eclipse with StatET plugin, c++, MySQL Yes Usually The flexibility in being able to use multiple solutions to solve problems The lack of consistent syntax for a lot of packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating parameterized pdf reports where data changes weekly I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R Basic 1970 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Biologist Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-13T10:13:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It being flexible, free, modular Sometimes missing more GUI like SPSS (although they’re horrible at it) or Explanatory.io General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Word documents as reports for sharing within organisation I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, PHP, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1985 Male Caucasian (why call it ‘white’????) Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Health Care and Medicine Medical epidemiologist Medical professional 3 Yes, definitely UseR conference, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-13T10:23:58Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 During my PhD, learning by suffering :-) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Envirinmental data analysis, time series 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io No Usually Free, multi-topical Notebooks crashing with large datat sets; when including Python code with reticulate does'n function smoothly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Visualization, Image analysis Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase R R NA female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Professor Researcher 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-13T10:29:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Yes Usually rmarkdown, tidyverse, data.table performance with large data sets (dplyr) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation RStudio Server 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) R developer / statistician Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-13T10:32:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 3 9 NA Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS R 1994 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Graduate Student Student 20 Neutral NA Facebook English 2020-12-13T10:45:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Go, Javascript, PHP, R PHP 1991 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) France Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-13T10:47:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses R’s meta-structure e.g. the difference between S3 and S4 object More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Marketing analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Reliable, vetted functions. Good documentation. Its only limit is usually my imagination Package management can be a pain, though it’s considerably better than Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS Excel 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T10:48:44Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Online community help Upgrading to newest version General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Visualization Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R NA Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Research Research Associate Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T11:12:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually It's ability to handle an infinite number of use cases and its general flexibility as a programming language With so many places to go, the learning curve can be steep General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Matlab 1995 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Consultant Consultant or Advisor 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T11:17:10Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Survey analysis 3 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Never the packages and related explanation the problem related to data input type General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1990 male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Italy Research PhD candidate Researcher 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T11:18:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Versatile for all things data Error messages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month qgis custimization NA 1 4 I expect it to stay the same PHP, R, SQL basic 1973 m NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) GIS specialist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T11:39:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community and wealth of support The language is so different from other programming languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Go, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Ruby C/C++ 1969 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Arts and Entertainment Chief Brand Officer Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T11:41:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Using code that is easy to read and write Finding solutions to errors is not always straight forward as log messages may not explain the issue General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS SAS 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 60000 No, not really Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T11:43:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Welcoming, open, & diverse community Others often have a bad opinion about R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1990 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Manufacturing Associate Research Scientist Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-13T11:53:51Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There are many libraries, and in RStudio it's easy to install them. Inconsistent syntax. Library conflicts. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, I am an undergraduate, so in my undergraduate work I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA R R 2000 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Education Student Student 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T11:58:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Rscript Yes Usually Package ecosystem Although not entirely R’s fault but there are many issues on Windows (character encoding problems, lack of proper multicore processing) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Distributing various analyses and reports I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Shell Excel NA Male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Hungary Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior research economist Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T12:14:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Julia Yes Usually Vectorization Some errors are as intuitive General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Julia, Python, R Python 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate Research Assistant Researcher 4 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T12:29:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Tidyverse and excellent documentation (full of examples) Running in-memory operations for NLU and Text Analytics. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Documentation on CRAN General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, UI for applications with user inputs (not interactive tables) I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day IT stuff (API interfaces, Networking, Webscrapping, etc.) and when collaborating with so-called-data-scientists which are really just software engineers that recently learned how to plug-and-play scikit learn and tensorflow. Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 3 I plan to stop using it Excel, Java, Python, R R 1982 male Black/African, White, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine AI Associate Director Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-13T12:32:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 NA RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1990 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies Research Scientist Statistician NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-13T12:39:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning to think like a programmer More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually How versatile it is Difficult to see what a function is doing if it is a wrapper for an S or C function General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research Researcher Researcher 3 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T12:40:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Vectorized/data frame operations slow in some contexts (big cumulative/recursive operations, when many combinations,...) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Slack I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Technical reports (in Word) for my coworkers I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, PHP, R C/C++ 1989 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral associate Researcher 0 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-13T12:53:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R C/C++ 1985 Female White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Health Care and Medicine Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T12:53:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It's very intuitive to work with data while using the tidyverse Problems with Installation and use of packages due to my operating system General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Blog with distill I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R, Visual Basic R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Research Assistant Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T12:56:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of use Keeping up to date on new packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau SPSS 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Sr Analytics Manager Management 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T13:10:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, teaching 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually collaborative and friendly community sometimes multiple ways to do the same thing is a good thing, other times it's more confusing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to increase R Java 1993 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education lecturer Educator 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-13T13:17:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Conda, Visual Studio Code 1 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R C/C++ 1980 female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-13T13:46:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NSE adds flexibility beyond anything I've ever seen Speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic Matlab 1989 Man Jewish Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Israel Research Research fellow Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA R bloggers English 2020-12-13T13:56:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Vscode Yes Usually The tidyverse packages Having to write tidy wrappers around non tidy packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Vscode 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Energy Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T13:58:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community, R studio Error messages in map functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, rmarkdown I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS Matlab 1983 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Health Care and Medicine Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T14:03:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 NA Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS R 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant professor of data science Educator 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T14:10:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually It's easy, well documentet, and powerfull, works well with my db's and OSes "People who thinks ""it's like SAS/Excel """ General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Have made a function to find and analize usage from description DBs, csv, and what ever my need is. I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Databricks 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Matlab, Python, R NOTE: SAS is not a programming language, as ruled by the American court. Howerver, it does have a makro language like excel, LaTeX, and others does aswell. 1992 Man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Financial Services and Activities NA Financial professional 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T14:28:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-bloggers NA I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda 3 6 I expect it to stay the same SAS, Tableau, Stata Stata 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Research PhD student Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T14:29:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 3 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Data manipulation data management examples General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase SAS SAS 1975 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Principal statistical programmer Statistician 1000 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-13T14:30:03Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Smartabase, MedicalObjects Yes Usually flexibility and the open and friendly community it can get complicated very, very fast Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, interactive medical letter writing from linked electronic health record I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R basic 1968 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) New Zealand Olympic and Paralympic Sport Athlete Monitoring Lead Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-13T14:53:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses No particular obstacles Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Medicine 4 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Stan, occasionally an awk script Yes Usually Quick and dirty Would be nice to have a way of packaging an app to a standalone exe to run on work computer without r installed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Dictated letter to primary care physician I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Only really play around with it I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation NA 4 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, Awk Gw basic 1977 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Consultant Intensivist & Respiratory Physician Medical professional 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T14:54:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The reproducibility and documentation of analysis. Not fully understanding the effect using different functions from different packages has on the final analysis. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization NA 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Arts and Entertainment Marketing Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T14:55:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1981 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Turkey Professional and Business Services Expert Statistician 0 Yes, definitely NA r-bloggers English 2020-12-13T14:58:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, teaching 4 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Nvim-R Yes Usually You can get results very quickly It's very haphazardly designed language, with very little consistency: for example, to make a mosaic plot corresponding to a contingency table, you have to switch the order of the formula for no apparent reason General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora R-bloggers Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), CoCalc.com I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week system scripting vim 3 9 I expect it to decrease Julia, Python, R, Haskell Basic on Sinclair Spectrum 1969 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 0 Neutral NA R-bloggers English 2020-12-13T14:59:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, SAS Visual Basic 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Portugal Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Statistician NA Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T15:32:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I can always look back at my code to see exactly what data were used in every analysis. And I love ggplot. Updating process General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS Excel 1991 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate Research Assistant Student 7 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T15:40:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It's a programming language focused on my needs as a data scientist, thus providing much faster development of data analysis and machine learning scripts when compared to python, for example. It's not the primarily used language for data science, Python has been on the top of the market in the last years, therefore we still need to use and know Python. Because of this, a great deal of case studies and examples are presented in Python and the R programmer has to 'translate' them. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Microsoft Excel 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, SQL R 1988 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Construction Head of Data Analytics Data scientist or analyst 4 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-13T15:48:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 1993 NA Prefer not to answer NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-13T15:52:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None R 1992 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Research NA Researcher NA I'm not sure NA Email English 2020-12-13T16:13:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Great syntax and packages for working with data. And R Shiny is powerful for publishing dynamic products to the web. CRAN doesn't make it easy to share packages. They have taken my packages down a few times now. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, spyder 2 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, R Shiny VBA 1985 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Insurance Sr. Actuarial Consultant Software developer 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-13T16:13:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R markdown, package library finding answers to issues and challenges General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Visual Basic 1971 male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Construction NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T16:29:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Windows and Linux Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Automated reporting 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Easy, compact syntax, suitable for people without SW engineering background, best IDE from more than a dozen that I tried for multiple languages - General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Domino datalab, internal I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Very specific use cases that are difficult to produce in R Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, Tableau, Visual Basic, HTML Visual Basic 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Professional and Business Services Senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-13T16:37:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally ggplot2 NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R scheme 1995 Male Asian, White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Not Employed NA Student 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T16:38:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shiny Server No Usually So many options to accomplish the task, very versatile Some packages have terrible documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Web scraping and other tasks R 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, Python, R, SAS, SQL Python 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Health Care and Medicine Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T16:39:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Ggplot and the ability to do pretty much anything. It has been a little like “come for ggplot, stay for the actual ability to do statistics”, but I have had to teach myself stats alongside R, which has obviously slowed down my . I have a humanities PhD, but used to program machine code on my c64. Getting into R after not programming for 25 years has been a little bit like coming home. The package ecosystem is still a bit overwhelming and save/load stuff is still a bit dangerous - I feel like I can never be totally sure that a csv will load correctly. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Almost exclusively Twitter Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, I teach Introductions to R for humanities/social science, and have recently started writing my tutorials in RMarkdown I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week PDF and HTML tutorial documents for my students I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Commodore 64 machine language 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Research Associate Professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T17:43:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The syntax and the community. A little slow sometimes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, RWeekly Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Excel 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Professional and Business Services Senior Forecaster Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-13T18:02:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually How you can do pretty much everything in a single place (not restrained such as other stastical analysis tools SAS, SPSS Excel I feel like it is harder to learn at first, especially base R. Older colleagues having difficulties to follow. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R C/C++ 1997 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Researcher Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T18:25:58Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Great community ready to help None General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 6 I expect it to increase R R 1986 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Ghana Health Care and Medicine Principal Medical Laboratory Scientist Medical professional 0 Yes, definitely NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-13T18:29:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The tidyverse packages along with the %>% piping make it much easier to use. I do not like that there are 5 or more packages that do the exact same thing and I can't figure out which one to use. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Published Academic Journal Articles I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Stata Visual Basic 1970 male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA R-bloggers.com English 2020-12-13T18:40:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproduceability Code breaking with new versions. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1988 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Biologist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T18:41:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Genomics, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally It is very indebt and does a whole lot of stuffs other packages cannot do Decoding the error messages sometimes become a struggle for me. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors CRAN Task Views I don't share I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling R, SPSS 2 6 I expect it to increase R, SPSS SPSS 1996 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Ghana Education NA Student 8 Yes, definitely NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-13T18:47:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Human readable code with pipe/dplyr, easy wrangling and vis w ggplot, easy group-by operations for working with groups, tibble structure, rmarkdown for reporting and workflows, and good packages when advanced analyses are needed Not as accepted/used in industry (not its fault) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase NA Excel 1980 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Medical Device Principal R and D Engineer Engineer 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-13T18:49:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually I really like pipes and the overall structure of the tidyverse packages. It aligns well with how I do data analysis works and after hard work initially it has become intuitive to pick up new tidyverse packges Sometimes arbitrary things that dont feel like they should be slow can be slow. I personally love lots of quick visualizations and I still amnt at a point with ggplot where I can make a quick chart in 2mins. I find this frustrating. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, i always read rviews packages of the month Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), export csv or markdown files for non r users internally, generate reports, dashboards and presentations for clients I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Rough draft reports to share with colleagues I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards NA Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Tableau PHP 1993 NA NA NA Ireland Marketing Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T18:52:37Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization NA NA RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Stata I am just getting started learning programming NA Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Full-time Masters student NA Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral NA R4DS Slack workspace English 2020-12-13T19:06:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis, Financial analysis, Data pipelines 4 9 Databricks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Google Sheets (via API) Yes Usually versatile slow at times, rstudio also crashes on occassion General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Slack, metabase I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Python specific APIs Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, R 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Visual Basic NA MALE Reptilian Graduate but not a Master's Australia Information Technologies Title Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T19:24:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2002 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Extensive number of packages Lack of variable declarations General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization NA 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1974 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data manager Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T19:33:28Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The sheer power - when you can get it right! remembering all the commands, syntax, so having to use Google a million times a day, which is slow. R doco is almost useless General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Course material not sharing yet - still learning I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, plain HTML I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase "Can hack some of the above, but I cant say I'm ""comfortable""" Pascal - 1981. 1963 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Not Employed NA None 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-13T19:40:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to stay the same three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1982 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Financial Services and Activities Research and Data Analytics Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T19:56:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Very Easy to work with data Some time is difficult to input and data, some time is difficult to rename column General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Pdf, excel I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1975 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Agriculture , cattle Consultant Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T19:59:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Databricks, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Community; variety of packages; rstudio ide; Weird error messages; not knowing about useful functions; data types (mainly lists being weird) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Databricks, Spyder 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS Matlab 1984 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) New Zealand Utilities Data Engineer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T20:00:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The formula interface and recycling variables How obscure the object oriented programming is General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Manufacturing Senior Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T20:01:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested NA Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually clean and straightforward NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Medicine, Clinical trials Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase R C/C++ 1987 female Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Malaysia Health Care and Medicine Medical Officer Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-13T20:07:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 3 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Best tool available for exploratory data analysis thanks to the Tidyverse R is a terrible language and generally not suitable for production code and should be abandoned even for exploratory data analysis as soon as Python or Julia's tooling improves enough to be usable General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars NA I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Financial analysis Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Julia, Python, R, Visual Basic, SQL, Stan, sh Visual Basic 1991 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Insurance Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-13T20:36:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would increase my productivity Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Great open community, when I am stuck I can check for a solution for a similar problem online Difficult to work with big data in memory based on your pc RAM capacity. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1981 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Jamaica Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Director of Modelling & Research Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Rblogger English 2020-12-13T20:37:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took First programming language More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Packages Installation issues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Ruby R 1982 Male Prefer not to answer Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Manufacturing Director Management 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-13T20:42:58Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested graphical quality and representation of various objects types (dataframe, model objects...) More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data manipulation and shaping, visualization Its weakness in bioinformatics available tools and speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase """five""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS Excel 1977 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Education postdoctoral Statistician 5 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T20:47:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually tidyverse R lists (or whatever the technical equivalent to python arrays are) Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation in tableau using the prediction of the ML model I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau, SQL C/C++ 1993 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Science Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T20:58:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses None. R is the best!! More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, STATA Yes Usually Data wrangling and visualizing can be done more easily and efficiently than other languages, especially if you are into statistical analyses. Also, because of its open source nature, any package or function can be dug into, and tweaked, if and as required. It could have been made more programming friendly like Python, so that people would not have required any other programming language. Ever. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1987 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Research Assistant Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-13T21:05:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 6 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Usually Tidyverse R syntax and datatypes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Stackoverflow Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, PowerPoint :( I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing, General programming and useful utilities Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1987 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Professional and Business Services Mechanical engineer Consultant or Advisor 1 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T21:39:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually RStudio Package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation Anaconda, R, SAS 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS, Stata HTML 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Economist Economist 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T22:01:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Tableau Yes Usually Community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Financial analysis R 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Python NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Quant/Economist Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-13T23:20:39Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Occasionally NA NA NA NA NA NA Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase NA NA 1994 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Health Care and Medicine NA Sales NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-13T23:24:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Watching YouTube videos of Bharatendra Rai, Joe Chang, Jared Landers, I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Web App Development 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Language is plain and simple. Easily understandable Sometimes it takes lots of effort to do simple thing.. Mainly in shiny framework General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars NA I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA R Excel 1994 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Manufacturing Cost Intelligence Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-13T23:34:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It’s vast scope of uses Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-13T23:40:47Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, These are all wishes,no haven't really started using it started 2 5 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Rarely Na Na General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I don't I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SPSS, Stata Basic 1976 Female White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-13T23:40:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 On the job I needed to be able to use GAMs in my PhD dissertation work and no other software had this yet Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, radian, viscose No Usually The community The error messages (even after 17 years) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help, rOpenSci Slack CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Julia, R Visual Basic 1974 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Scientist of Agriculture Systems Innovation and Associate Professor Researcher 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2020-12-13T23:41:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually R can be used for all my works, data analysis, website development, creating blogs, writing books etc. None General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase 5 five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, SPSS Visual Basic 1958 F Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sri Lanka Education NA Educator NA Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-13T23:48:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Extensibility Type system General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Github Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Field-specific data analysis R, Visual Studio Code, Miniconda 4 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, Rust, C# Pascal 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Academia PhD candidate Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T00:01:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code Yes Usually Graphics and tidyverse NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, CRANberries Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Systems administration and cloud glue Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau Excel NA Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies data scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T00:02:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, spatial data analysis and mapping 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually R is so flexible. I can do so many tasks for which I formerly needed expensive, proprietary software. The CRAN documentation for packages seem very minimally written and could be more thorough, especially for specialized packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Pascal 1976 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Energy Geoscience Advisor Researcher 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T00:03:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 A postdoc in my lab helped me install it and showed me the swirl package I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Tidyverse pipelines. The BEST. People's perception that it's not relevant General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Google colab 2 1 I expect it to stay the same R R 1992 Femme, non-binary White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) South Africa Data Science consulting Junior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T00:07:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I thought I could do more with it than Excel. "This shouldn't be a ""biggest"" question, there was more than one." More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Repeatability of projects, being able to do more than I could before Few people want to collaborate in my world. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Really not too much. Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, R Excel 1975 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Management 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T00:20:16Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 4 9 Tableau I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1999 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America biology NA Student NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T00:24:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Documenting functions (compared to Py which does not require roxygen2) More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Quick solutions for most problems. Double escapes in regex. Need to compile roxygen comments to see help of own functions (rozygen comments should be detected and seen by ide. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com R-weekly Must export plots to vector graphics,PowerPoint, tables plots te Excel, models to Excel VBA. I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Visual Basic, VBA (future maybe TypeScript) Excel 1971 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland Health Care and Medicine Market Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T00:26:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Ecosystem, never have to leave R Sometimes not as fast as GUI General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) New Zealand Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Scientist Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T00:27:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities NA More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 3 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, SQL Yes Occasionally ease of use and readability. crashes, oddities, General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA NA NA NA Excel, Javascript, SQL R NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-14T00:57:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 While discovering a perfect automation tool during internship. I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++ C/C++ 1995 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Air Quality Geospatial Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T00:59:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Availability of packages and online support That most of my colleagues dont use it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Turbo pascal 1982 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Belgium Research Associate Professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T00:59:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually I have started using Python for work. That has made me appreciate the Tidy+ggplot ecosystem. Haven't found anything else that comes close in terms of ease of making sense of a data set. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 3 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, Python, R Visual Basic 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Norway Financial Services and Activities Senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T01:01:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I'm doing a PhD and my supervisor told me to use R Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), The Terminal in RStudio and on MacOS Yes Usually RStudio makes using R really great. Love markdown and easy reproducibility vague documentation which doesn't explain how to use the function/package properly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day output as github_document to nicely store and display code/methods on github I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R bash shell 1985 Female White, Jewish Bachelor's degree - Honours Australia Research PhD student Student 0 No, not at all Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-14T01:22:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually community decentralized package development General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, spyder 3 5 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1986 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Transportation Data Science Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T01:49:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis, Health economics 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse Dealing with large datasets General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Medicine, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Tableau R 1995 Male MENA Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Egypt Health Care and Medicine Phd student Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference Facebook English 2020-12-14T02:00:19Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It is powerfull, you can do a lot of things NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1967 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Sweden Professional and Business Services NA Management 7 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T02:19:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually It can easily perform common tasks It is not widely adopted Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1981 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Romania Financial Services and Activities Risk manager Financial professional 0 No, not really RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T02:21:03Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started I don't use R any more Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Text analysis 3 9 SPSS I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is It’s user friendly Its technicality General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Text processing Microsoft Excel, R, SPSS 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, PHP, Python, SPSS Visual Basic 1986 Male Black/African Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Ghana Education Teacher Educator 0 I'm not sure NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T02:30:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It forces me to be clear on what I want to do. That there is so much to learn. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Python 1985 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Madagascar Energy NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2020-12-14T02:33:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 9 SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually It is a swiss army knife data cleaning, and manipulation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it R, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ 1993 Male Asian, Middle Eastern Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Iran Health Care and Medicine Statistician Statistician 1 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T02:46:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 4 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro Yes Occasionally Wonderful for working with data frames/tables etc. It's rather slow compared to other languages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Genomics, Medicine Conda, JupyterHub 5 9 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R R 1996 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine PhD Student Researcher 3 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T02:52:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses The seemingly unavoidable challenges in installing packages (not found, other errors, occasions where the only solution was to completely reinstall R Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 3 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Occasionally Power to do complex analysis When you get the dreaded bomb, terminal error General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1973 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Information Technologies Analytics Consultant Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T02:59:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1987 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) France Health Care and Medicine Doctor Medical professional 1 Neutral RStudio::conf, R Medicine conference From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T03:01:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Very clear IDE, and very user friendly language. Pipes very intuitive. Not much! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Python and R mix I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 5 I expect it to decrease Excel, Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD researcher Researcher 6 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T03:12:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually diversity diversity General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R C/C++ 1983 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Burma Research Environmental Research Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-14T03:20:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Stata Yes Usually A wide range of cool packages. The tidyverse is particularly awesome – it generally feels very intuitive and powerful. It sometimes takes a while to wrap my head around the programming aspect, particularly when using purrr and when trying to write more complicated functions using dplyr. Nonetheless when you get it to work the payoff is great. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Stata Stata 1989 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) South Africa Research PhD student and researcher Student 3 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T03:27:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1992 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro No Occasionally Its flexibility. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Narrative storytelling with text and data, Clinical trial planning with in-house shiny app I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS R 1969 male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine NA Statistician 20 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T03:28:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, R PHP NA NA NA NA Switzerland Information Technologies NA Consultant or Advisor NA Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-14T03:40:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R Visual Basic 1989 Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Postdoc Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T03:44:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually easy ; flexibility no easy reporting of tables General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1992 male White PharmD France Health Care and Medicine pharmacologist Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T04:00:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Iteratively improving code for outputs and visualisations, learning and improving NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 7 I expect it to increase R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1992 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Utilities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T04:03:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Visualization, Clinical trials 3 6 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), SAS, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually NA It's often really hard to understand the documentation. What could be used for ..., when do I have to use eval, call, get, etc to get my code work. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week simple HTML files I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Fortran 1959 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine statistical porgrammer Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-14T04:03:54Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Books; Twitter #Rstats links; Stack Overflow I'm a pensioner studying stats degree via Open University (UK). When I grad, I won't afford proprietary licences so learning R. Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Much more convenient and immediate than Minitab. Plus very flexible. I don't have any grumbles. Every day is an adventure. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I'm just learning it for my own amusement I expect it to increase three Daily -- Once or more per day I use Rmarkdown as a LaTeX wrapper for university assignments I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1957 Male White, RGB: (255, 224, 218) ... why call it white? Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United Kingdom Retired anaesthetist Pensioner Retired 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T04:13:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Practical part of a University lecture It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually statistic tools too easy to write bad code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Java, Matlab, Python, R Java 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Financial Services and Activities research associate Statistician 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T04:14:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Sublime text code editor No Usually The amount of packages available for my work File parsing line by line. Basically doing anything that is not in tabular data and cannot be loaded into memory General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, My own old code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Rmarkdown HTML reports I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Conda 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Bash Bash 1976 Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Bioinformatics data analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T04:23:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) I don't think it was difficult to learn R More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, web-page creation, flexdashbords, fun 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Versatility of packages, ease of implementation, visualization possibilities, ease of creating web-pages, creating documentation, facilitating reproducible analyses It takes too much memory when using simple parallelization techniques, it's kinda slow sometimes... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, R-Ladies network I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, documenting analyses and visualization I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month I don't develop in shiny I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Java, R Java 1983 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Norway Education senior engineer (data analyst) Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T04:27:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Shiny Dashboard/App Development 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The community understands statistics and data problems and has all these interesting packages which you can't find anywhere else NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month I use it to work through new problems I am trying to figure out I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Also a little bit of CRUD work. I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 2 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, Scilab, Octave, VBA Scilab 1996 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) South Africa Logistics R Developer Software developer 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Reddit English 2020-12-14T04:29:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Very easy of statistical analytics coding for shiny package and markdowns are sometimes very difficult General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 2 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Qbasic 1993 male Asian, South Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Nepal Research Research Assistant Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T04:33:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 3 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It has a lot of packages that are relevant to me Debugging, though that would be the same in any language General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Conda 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Postdoc Researcher 4 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T04:34:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and Visualization How it manages text, Python is much better in that aspect General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Pascal 1994 Female White, Russian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research PhD student Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T04:40:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Teaching it to students 2 3 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never Dataframes and statistical analysis Slowness in computations General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I plan to stop using it Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Research PhD candidate Researcher 3 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T04:43:01Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally It’s free Having to reload everything General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, R Excel 1993 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Spain Ecology NA NA NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T04:53:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Usually it's very powerful for data manipulation the documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation running script from command line 2 2 I expect it to stay the same R pascal 1974 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Israel Biotech staff scientist, bioinformatics Researcher 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T04:59:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work I is slow Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Survey analysis 2 2 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Never I is free It is slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Dash 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, SAS Visual Basic 1971 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Professional and Business Services NA Consultant or Advisor NA No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T05:01:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) data visualization Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually 1. Tidyverse/grammars of graphics and data manipulation make working with rectangular data feel very natural; 2. {purrr} makes iteration straightforward for someone from a non-programming background Updating packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Research Fellow Researcher 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T05:02:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Speed of analysis, Big community to help with more difficult coding, easy to learn, nice packages "NA" Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research PhD Candidate Researcher 5 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T05:03:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually The community Error messaging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T05:04:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The rich eco system of packages and the very friendly community. Well, there always seems to be many ways of doing things. Which is also an advantage. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Commodore 64 BASIC 1970 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Strategist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T05:04:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Survey analysis 5 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The tidyverse (without any doubt :P) Inconsistencies in base functions, indexing starts at 1 General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Automation (instead of bash scripting, e.g. on Linux) Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, Visual Studio Code, PyCharm 5 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Python, R Java 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research Assistant Professor Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T05:09:49Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to install and use new packages missing some features like enumerate in python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Education PhD Candidate Researcher 3 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T05:11:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Book writing with Bookdown 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The tidyverse Package deployment to CRAN General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1983 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Sweden Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Desk officer Management 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T05:19:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 5 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, ShinyProxy No Usually Expressive power; Community That it has lost the data science market battle to Python, thus not good for career prospects General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Generic applications I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Excel 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Insurance Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T05:31:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Rarely Ease of scripting Implicit type conversion General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R C/C++ 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Post-doc Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T05:33:33Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Amazingly simple syntax Some r documentation and related examples are very vague General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1981 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Information Technologies Manager Management 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T05:35:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work I is slow Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Survey analysis 2 2 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Never I is free It is slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Dash 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, SAS Visual Basic 1971 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Professional and Business Services NA Consultant or Advisor NA No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T05:38:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually R both enables me to do daily task easier and accomplish work that I wouldn't be able to do without it. NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Data outputs used in BI software I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau Javascript 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Professional and Business Services NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T05:40:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1981 m White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Trade (Retail or Wholesale) NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T05:48:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually NA Package-related reproducibility General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling NA 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R Excel 1981 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Finland Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T05:55:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually packages, community, easiness high number of packages and versions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation JupyterLab 3.0, PyCharm 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Matlab 1990 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Manufacturing Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T05:59:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally VERY strong community so lots of support. Also I just vibe with data.table a lot. Can't think of anything in particular! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1989 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Media Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T06:12:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Reactivity in RShiny apps More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Create Shiny apps 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually It offers so many opportunities, only the sky is the limit. Some package updates can break existing code so sometimes code needs to be maintained only for this purpose. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1987 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Wind Turbine manufacturing Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-14T06:21:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Git, Docker No Usually Now that I know R, data manipulation is quick and super-effective Organizing scripts - I think there is a gap between writing package code and writing analysis scripts, and automating the latter General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling NA 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Ruby 1992 woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Finland Professional and Business Services Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T06:25:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Spatial Analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Stata Yes Usually The flexibility and modularity due to the high number of packages Steep learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Spyder 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Stata C/C++ 1993 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Research NA Student NA Neutral UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T06:47:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Spatial; national statistics; publications; workflow control; dashboards; ETL 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, postgres; grass gis; libreoffice; pdf; web servers No Usually Breadth of online support IT departments like Windows (more general than R specific). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Debug it myself General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Record analysis, like a lab notebook I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, bash; grass gis; html R 1982 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) senior intelligence analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T07:46:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Managing packages Less than once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation 3 6 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Rarely code is documentation code is documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, PHP, R, Tableau Excel 1976 NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA Administration 10 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T07:50:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1992 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Latvia Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T07:58:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I get excellent dataviz of complex data in no time... "NA" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, PyCharm 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, Python, R, SKILL++ [a derivative from Scheme] Microsoft BASIC 1.0 1975 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Manufacturing Principal CAD Engineer Software developer 0 No, not really PyCon conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T08:01:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 in master's degree. It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually the consistency and stability of software and the possibility of codes more robust rendering time for more elaborate maps and graphs Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Twitter I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1983 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Health Care and Medicine student in public health and epidemiology Student 50 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T08:03:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually There's a lots of resources to learn learning factors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CSVs, graphic outputs I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS I am just getting started learning programming 1987 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Policy Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-14T08:05:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Cloud Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel NA NA Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Uganda Research NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T08:12:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually ggplot2, the `pipe` functionality, and functional programming error messages and performance over large data (though I fully admit I need more training and education in this arena) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Internal HTML reports for summary data analysis I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning, Genomics JupyterHub, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Clojure Visual Basic 1981 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Pharmaceuticals Senior Software Engineer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T08:15:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested None More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually NA NA R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase R R 1976 NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Information Technologies Professor Educator 5000 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference, R Finance conference, PyCon conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T08:21:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually The flexibility to conduct analysis, visualize and report my results all in one application. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Tableau Visual Basic 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T08:25:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro Yes Occasionally NA not coherent syntax and function names even in base package (compare to python) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Server Pro 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R Paskal NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Research NA Researcher NA No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-14T08:32:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Community Multiple paradigms (e.g. base vs tidyverse) makes a steep learning curve for people just starting out. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Microsoft Excel, R 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R C/C++ NA NA Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T08:33:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SPSS, Tableau R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA Data scientist or analyst 4 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T08:35:46Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Managing packages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Big user base and existing code base to build from, rather than starting from scratch. Difficult to develop behind a corporate environment and firewall - makes packages and updates tricky. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Maple 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistician Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T08:37:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job All of the above! Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually At this point it's the language I understand the most. Tidyverse style vectorized coding is super intuitive. Integration with TensorFlow and other ml libraries. R seems to be a little behind python for big ml applications. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Google Earth Engine Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R R 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD Candidate Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T08:38:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job Agreed to teach an SEM grad course only if R used Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SAS No Usually Flexibility, open source, community Not much now tho function overlap can be annoying General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Playing I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, SAS Basib 1961 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T08:41:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating PDF documents reporting results of statistical analyses. I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic NA 1961 Male-ish White, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Statistician Statistician 25 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T08:43:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community. Highly supportive and creative. Often spoiled for choice. A lot of tools to do the same thing. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic FORTRAN 1972 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Insurance Actuary Researcher 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T08:47:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud Yes Usually Focus on statistics The increasing popularity of python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1981 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Colombia Research Professor Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T08:52:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The huge number of libraries available Still not sure whether I'd have been better going with Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, R weekly Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis NA 2 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS BBC Basic 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Technical Director Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T08:53:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Conda 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R Pascal 1982 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Education Biostatistician Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T09:03:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1999 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis, Psychometrics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SAS No Usually Ease of use (now) execution speen General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1969 Male White NA United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 1000 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T09:12:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually less programming and readily available online solutions loading and updating packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS, STATA C/C++ 1981 female Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Botswana Education lecturer Educator 6 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T09:16:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Its free, open source, lots of packages, and has good documentation Version issues between packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning R 2 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R C/C++ 1988 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Sr R&D Quality Engineer Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-14T09:19:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Usually It's like solving Sudoku cryptic error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month practise Microsoft Excel 2 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Matlab 1989 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research NA Researcher 7 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T09:22:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it C/C++, R, Perl Turbo Pascal 1981 NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T09:27:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually naturally mixing functional programming, relational algebra, metaprogramming with concise syntax lack of native parallel processing; General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Python, R, Scala; Clojure MSX BASIC 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Financial Services and Activities data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T09:28:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, Visual Basic Java 1991 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Manager - Data Science Data scientist or analyst 8 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T09:32:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually The easy of manipulating data between formats The amount of memory it takes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-Weekly newsletter Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1992 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Associate Bioinformatics Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T09:32:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Solves problems Too many different ways to do the same thing. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 2 4 I expect it to increase Javascript, R, Visual Basic Fortran 1963 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Ecologist Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T09:35:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The community is very open and welcoming, and there are infinite online resources. Difficult to work with large data sets General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1987 Female Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Ecologist Researcher 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf R Bloggers English 2020-12-14T09:41:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally The (what it feels like) endless possibilities NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, For a better overview of my R script I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Go, R Excel 1996 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Research Student Biologist 4 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T09:42:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 NA Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server Yes Occasionally It has native understanding of data classes, such as data.frame, matrix and arrays, which makes the language feel very data-central (Compared to having to import numpy and pandas in python). Also, I like that there exists different ecosystems such as tidyverse and Bioconductor. It is also very interactive and versatile and it is amazing to see people using R in creative ways. Base R seems to be littered with relics from the past for compatibility with S. Lower-level coding in R can be sluggish and many packages solve this with compiled code, but when something goes awry in compiled code it is difficult to debug. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Knitting as a barebones reproducibility check I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing NA 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research PhD Student Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T09:45:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, reddit.com Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, c# Pascal 1976 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not at all UseR conference Email English 2020-12-14T09:46:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1991 male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T09:51:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Tableau No Occasionally The ease of performing basic statistical tasks and elegant visualizations The need to constantly make sure packages are updated, or to use one for a while only to find that it stops working because it is not longer being supported by a current R version. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Simulation studies for teaching I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Matlab NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator NA Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-14T09:52:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning NA 8 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There are probably packages for everything you want to do It's not intuitive General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel NA I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Fortran NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Education NA NA NA NA NA Email English 2020-12-14T09:53:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Graduation It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SAS, Power BI No Usually Variety of packages with ease of usage Low support from companies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase R, SAS Excel 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Information Technologies Associate Systems Engineer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Telegram English 2020-12-14T09:53:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually R is easy to understand, and there is a community of R users that build and maintain a robust set of packages. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Matlab, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1972 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-14T09:54:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 use in graduate school courses It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually I love knowing that I am using a tool that is accessible to all. Tools for knowledge production should not require licenses that costs thousands of dollars. I love the multitude of applications that come out of using R in academia and business. Having to reinstall my packages after each update. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau C/C++ 1985 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Senior Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T09:54:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually It is very powerful, flexible, makes sense after you work in it for a while, and has a great community Lack of knowledge about numerous useful packages! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau HTML 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Data Visualization Researcher Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T09:55:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually I teach in a mathematics department, R functions behaving like mathematical functions f(x,y,z) is very convenient for my students. I feel like it takes away some of the fears and barriers often associated with programming. NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor of Mathematics Educator 0 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T09:56:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Twitter I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS Python 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T09:57:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Community and cutting-edge stuff like Shiny. There are so many ways of doing the same thing. I'd like the community to agree on a few and put all their effort into developing packages that use the same objects. An example is the tidyverse. Unfortunately, a lot of packages for Biostatistics are not compatible with the tidyverse and are incompatible with each other, many have been written in S, and so on. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, bespoke Data Science projects I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1994 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 15 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T09:58:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 2 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually community syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Text processing JupyterLab 2.0 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1995 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Health Care and Medicine Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T09:58:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Teaching Statistics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Tableau No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Education I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, R C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA Education Assistant Professor Educator 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:00:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Webscraping 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The pipe %>%, sf and purrr The amount of memory it can sometimes use General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Journalistic publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Text processing RStudio Desktop (IDE), Spyder IDE 2 5 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Media Journalist Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:00:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually It is efficient; often I have to conduct similar analyses over time so being able to reuse code saves me a lot of time. Error messages are difficult to understand at times. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R SPSS 1987 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Research Associate Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T10:01:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Lots of possibilities to visualize your data, quite intuitive handling for me as a non-informatician Its not always clear how the classes are changed, sometimes strange behaviour because of that General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1987 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research PostDoc Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:02:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I like how easy and quick it is to query datasets N/A General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing NA 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies IT Technician III Administration 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:03:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Microsoft Excel 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Julia, Python, R Java 1987 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Visiting Instructor Educator 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:03:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Teaching 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Usually Easy to build custom functionality. In order to keep up, I feel like I have let go of other languages (SAS, Python, etc.) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Course note packets I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Java 1984 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:04:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 5 10 NA I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is NA NA NA NA NA NA Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase NA I am just getting started learning programming 1997 NA Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Health Care and Medicine NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-14T10:04:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Rarely Free, commonly used by statisticians It's wackier than MATLAB and slower General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Writing worksheets, assignments, etc. for teaching I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R C/C++ 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor of Statistics Statistician 3 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:05:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Survey analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The reproducibility of analyses, especially with Rmarkdown. syntax inconsistencies, also some of the new complex coding practices that seem driven by computer science folks, not statisticians General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating analysis reports to share with collaborators (usually HTML, sometimes LaTeX/PDF) I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R, SAS, Perl Basic 1978 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor of Statistics and Informatics Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:05:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS Yes Occasionally I love the problem solving and analysis elements of R. And I LOVE how helpful the community of R users are. The R documentation is hard to read for novices and those who aren't CS programmers. There is a steep learning curve, but i think things like learnr can help minimize that. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS R 1983 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Lecturer Educator 20 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:05:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually an actively evolving toolset optimized for data work (with a wonderful community) "lack of more robust software tooling has been a challenge with more ""production"" use-cases (though this is improving) -- e.g. package management, logging, typing/validation, OS/command-line integration" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Java 1984 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Staff Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:08:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually How powerful it is and how it enables me to do all sorts of cool things quickly The different camps (tidyverse vs. base), having less support than python for image analysis tasks General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Image analysis Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 1 3 I expect it to increase Javascript, R, SAS C/C++ 1987 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:08:59Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python Yes Usually The community! NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, R 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 2001 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Arts and Entertainment Student Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:10:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora NA Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Matlab 1970 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Insurance Actuary Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:12:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to switch to R in my teaching. Finding time at work to commit to learning R. Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, producing documents 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually open source; not proprietary; free and accessible to all, regardless of resources "poorly documented packages; ""help"" geared toward higher end comp programmers" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, mostly just lots of materials for my classes I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R BASIC (I'm 58 years old), then Pascal 1962 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor (of Statistics and Data Science) Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T10:13:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, SQL Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Power BI and SQL Java 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Healthcare Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:13:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Visualization 3 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually availability of alternative methods which package should i use? What are limits of packages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Pascal 1969 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Education Professor Educator 3 NA NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:13:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, bibliography management 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Vim + Nvim-R Yes Usually R code is perfect for sharing reproducible and transparent analysis with colleagues. Lack of non-data related packages. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, automating non-data related tasks Vim 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Pascal 1996 male Hispanic/Latinx Some college or university, no college degree Brazil Research Undergraduate researcher Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T10:13:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually magrittr Errors with custom functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 2 9 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R, Tableau Python 1992 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Transportation Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:13:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 7 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Wide range of options for how to do anything. Packages with too frequent updates General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month What I can’t do in r Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Sport Sport scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:14:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The supportive community. The function help files are difficult for beginners and intermediate users. They seem to be written towards someone who already has a full understanding of data types, environments, and methods. They could benefit from simpler language and simple examples. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating HTML reports and attachments that can be attached to reports for clients I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Commodore 64 Basic 1971 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining Project Engineer Geotechnical and mining instrumentation 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-14T10:14:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Flexibility Issues with Windows... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS, Tableau Tableau 1992 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Research fellow Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:14:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 RStudio Connect, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Flexibility Barrier to entry for social science students General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Package documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, HTML teaching materials using distill I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, STATA, Mplus SPSS 1993 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Research Associate Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:14:33Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually One-stop shop for statistics summaries, graphs, and analysis Not knowing a lot of efficient ways to do things General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Assignments for students I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Mathematical exploration CoLab notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Visual Basic 1977 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education teacher Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:14:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io No Rarely power, flexibility, breadth of applications sometimes the documentation is lacking for some packages, and sometimes the error messages are befuddling (but a little Google usually solves it) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda 2 7 I expect it to decrease Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-14T10:14:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 3 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Working with many tables at once. Simple descriptive stats so complicated. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Stata Basic 1974 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Hungary Education NA Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:15:19Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Rarely Community Handling errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same R fortran 1971 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Professor Researcher 20 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T10:15:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Conda, Microsoft Excel, R 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Tableau Python 1991 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:16:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely vectorization dots within variable names Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Julia, R, Ruby, SQL, bash, awk awk NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Research NA Researcher 3 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:16:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job At my work we used iMacs on which SPSS did not run, therefore R was recommended and the rest is history. Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally The sheer number of possibilities for understanding my data. The sheer number of possibilities for understanding my data. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R Python 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate research assistant Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:16:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Non-standard evaluation and made for interactive sessions Limitations such as no modifying in-place, bad garbage collector, poor docs for base R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Sharing tutorials and analyses I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Python, R Visual Basic 1991 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Latvia Not Employed NA Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T10:16:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities "It was my first experience with programming, learning to think about the work of writing code was hard at first. Maybe this is ""just getting started""?" Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Consistent principles behind the tidyverse-- really helps organize thinking and solving problems NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Tableau R 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:16:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It is logical and easy to understand reproduce and re-use scripts Funding out there there are better ways of doing things in r ( newer /different packages) and I have been doing things the longer/harder way for some time Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora stack overflow Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), statistical publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Javascript, R Javascript 1968 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) data analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T10:17:05Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I am going to be taking a course Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 1 1 Microsoft Excel I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is Nothing I just don’t get it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com NA NA I expect it to decrease Five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA None I am just getting started learning programming 1969 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Health Care and Medicine Clinical trials nurse Medical professional 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:18:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Community and innovative packages Debugging R error messages -- feel python's messages generally much more helpful General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, PDFs for data heavy documents--usually informal I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS PHP 1977 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Executive Director Statistician 12 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-14T10:19:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Occasionally It is easy to use Not as good for GIS and remote sensing as python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1976 Female Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T10:20:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Reproducibility "Updating and installing some ""difficult"" packages (e.g. rJava, rstan)" Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Turbo Pascal :) NA NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Biomedical sciences Group manager Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:21:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Visualization Performance compared to Python or C++ General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Go, Javascript, Python, R, SPSS R 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 35 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:22:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The whole language feels like it was designed for statistics and data analysis My colleagues mostly use SPSS and feel moving to R would be difficult General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Go, Javascript, Python, R R 1992 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Education Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:22:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), Shiny Server, Libreoffice Yes Usually Pipelines, vector operations, data-oriented workflow Nothing! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Self-hosted public Shiny server I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Email reports using {gt} I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Ruby, Bash Bash 1979 Male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Information Technologies Community Sata Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:23:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to learn and use Lack of cutting edge tools and development (e.g. in natural language processing) which happens predominantly in Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1992 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Belgium Research NA Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:24:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI, winbugs, jags Yes Usually The amount of matured available packages NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Pdf I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R, SAS, SPSS, Sql Pascal 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Professor Educator NA Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T10:25:00Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibility and report generation Lack of integrated project file to visual studio levels General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Connecting to APIs and web services and serving content Anaconda, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic, Prolog C/C++ 1978 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United Kingdom Information Technologies Product Manager Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:25:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually The great community around it Honestly, the only negative at this point is not being able to convince my company to let me use R more General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, I build my resume with {vitae} I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Insurance Actuarial Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:26:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Common sense syntax, amount of resources to learn, and good visualizations Documentation that doesn't include examples General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Pulling twitter data Anaconda 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Stata, SQL HTML & CSS 1982 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Phd Candidate & Research Assistant Student 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:29:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Easy for statistical analisys. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora NA RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R R 1995 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Research NA Statistician 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) R Brasil telegram group English 2020-12-14T10:33:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took tidyverse Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Java, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, Tableau Python 1995 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Information Technologies data engineer Data scientist or analyst NA NA NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T10:33:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally Beautiful Data Visualization Limited interest from non-stats folks to use (they prefer Python) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS SAS 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:34:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Switching from SAS to R More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shinyapps.io, SPSS No Usually Amount of code to produce impressive looking output Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Teaching I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Teaching I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS SAS 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor of Statistics Educator 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:35:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually It pays my bills. Jokes aside, i think that R is not overly complicated and it gets the job done. Speed. I wish i didn't have to look for faster alternatives of something i already know how to do. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shiny Apps, Powerpoint Presentations, RMarkdown I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Italy Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:36:44Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same NA C/C++ 1977 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Lecturer Educator 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:37:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 9 Microsoft Excel, SPSS No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS Excel 1995 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education graduate teaching fellow Student 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:38:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Fairly simple to do many statistical procedures. Default is not to ignore NA. Also the need to type c() for a set of numbers General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Google Drive I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating html and pdf reports I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau BASIC 1971 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator 10 Neutral NA isostat English 2020-12-14T10:39:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 2020 Female White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) South Africa Not Employed NA Student NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:40:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The exceptional amount of expert work that goes into the packages The feeling of inflated superiority General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None C/C++ 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Netherlands Research Researcher Researcher 2 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:43:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually resources online, inclusive user community weird error messages, package incompabilities Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation power shell 3 4 I expect it to stay the same R LISP 1988 woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Education PhD student Researcher 4 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:43:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually community s3,s4. poor performance, not integrate with other languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda 4 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Julia R 1993 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Information Technologies Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:44:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There are lots of packages to help me accomplish my tasks and I can usually find a package which matches my needs It was quite challenging to understand syntax and how to use starting out General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R HTML/CSS NA female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA Educator 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:45:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2001 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work I leaned R in 2001 before easily available online documentation and help More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Oracle database and Oracle client Yes Usually Flexibility Building a user interface. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1966 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:45:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Thermodynamics 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse grammar is natural to perform data anaylsis Performance is sometimes a problem General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 4 I expect it to stay the same Julia Mathematica 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Utilities Engineer Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:45:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I just like how easy it is to manipulate data and perform various analyses required for my field. How poorly it handles really large data.frames. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Trying to learn it for data science Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Graduate Student Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:46:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), SAS, Shinyapps.io, SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually The versatility The memory restriction General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SAS Matlab 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 10 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:48:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) "Having a programming language research background, the language just felt very different and unintuitive, and I know my Lisp and other ""classic"" languages" Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 2 3 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually tikzDevice, and generating ggplot2 plots for my computer science papers The language, and its strange, unintuitive semantics, and that it's rather slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, for blogging, but without blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week I don't uses for stats work, but other things Visual Studio Code, PyCharm 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Go, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Ruby QuickBasic, Pascal, Smalltalk 1983 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education & Research Lecturer Educator & Researcher 0 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:51:49Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week General Programming tasks Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python Excel 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Health Care and Medicine Reporting Specialist Consultant or Advisor 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:52:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility, simplicity data format problems General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Excel 1984 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Postdoc Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:53:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Poorly designed language I don't use R any more Microsoft Windows I don't anymore. 1 3 NA No Never NA Poor language design. multiple object oriented ways of programming. awful multithreading support. always having to write c code for performance critical parts. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora NA NA I plan to stop using it five I don't use R Markdown NA I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it C/C++, Julia, Matlab, Python, R Pascal and Basic 1974 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Insurance Senior Vice President Statistician 10 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-14T10:54:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Data slicing and manipulation is far more intuitive than in other languages such as with the Pandas package for Python Will occasionally error in unintuitive or vague ways that require a hefty amount of debugging. Sometimes errors will result in the R session terminating completely, with no information on what went wrong. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Preparing reports for members of my team I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, PHP, Python, R Python 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Sports Analytics Baseball Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:55:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Reproducibility RAM limitations General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 10 I expect it to increase R R 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Research Scientist Researcher 50 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:55:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), PowerBI Yes Usually The flexibility and ease of gathering and analyzing data from pretty much any data source I can find. The inconsistencies between certain packages, the difficulty in getting Rmarkdown to render exactly how I want it, and the lack of ETL pipeline support. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Pumped into PowerBI dashboards and into Static Documents and excel sheets. I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Making word documents using Officer and Officedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, SQL R 1997 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Contracting Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T10:58:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 More like “how AM I learning R.” First downloaded it for play, then took a course that used it and got basic knowledge, and every job I’ve has had a need for it. I continue to learn. I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Used to use it for clinical trials (data monitoring) 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually ggplot is a thing of beauty and I am in awe every time I realize it was a PhD thesis The layers of syntax that have accreted over time mean that it is easy to make errors. An example is behavior around NA, which varies more than I would like. I only just realized that whereas the condition in ifelse(condition, ...) defaults to NA if something in the condition is NA, the condition in length(vec[condition]) defaults to TRUE. I have been using this system for 13 years.......!! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, I avoid R-help because many years ago it had a missing stair and I have not wanted to chance that still being true. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month I work in Alzheimer’s disease research. I am building a widget for our clinicians to use to look at individual test histories when assessing the cognitive status of our research participants each month. I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Pascal 1979 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Associate Scientist Statistician 3 I'm not sure Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:59:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS Yes Usually It is free NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS Excel 1989 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Education Phs student, teaching assistant Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-14T10:59:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, (Note: I checked all that I use it for regularly. I'm not totally sure if this was the intended interpretation.) 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually "I love the ease of syntax when working with tabular data. While it may be ""different"" than many other programming languages, the API for working with data has become more consistent each year in R. I have to look up way less when working in R than in other languages." Heavy dependency structure when using in Docker (that said, I saw a tweet earlier that I think this is being/has ben addressed...I just haven't gotten to look at it yet.) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same fifteen Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, I use Python to teach, but will start using R more next year in the classroom. I use R for almost every personal task outside the classroom. Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel, but also Perl 1988 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Teaching Professor Educator 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-14T11:00:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's free and widely used in my field. The simplicity of the language makes it easier for beginners (I've tried Java and that is not as user friendly, Python is close to R though). "It can be hard to figure out all the workflow shortcuts. For example, I've heard great things about here() and I'm sure there's a way to set a default directory but I haven't sat down and researched that so I still do ""select working directory"" every time. I also only recently learned about RMarkdown and how it works. I think following more users on twitter has helped me learn about the tools that can make my workflow more efficient." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, GIS Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, ArcGIS Pro 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Matlab, Python, R Excel 1994 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education PhD Student Student 5 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:01:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, Shinyapps.io, metabase Yes Usually syntax arrays begin at 1 General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning metabase 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Information Technologies User Research Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:01:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Dashboarding 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SQL (Oracle) Yes Rarely It’s ease of use, and it’s basically a one-stop tool for data analysis NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R Matlab 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Gambling Senior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T11:03:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Docker No Usually Flexibility towards many other frameworks NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, rseek.org Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Docker Containers I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Speech to Text Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Docker 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, SPSS, Stata Stata NA NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Education NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA Slack ROpenSci English 2020-12-14T11:04:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) The general philosophy of R as a programming language - programming patterns. Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Genomics 3 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The visualizations Everything else General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Fortran IV 1958 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Research scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:05:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Stack overflow RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 10 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1994 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD candidate Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:05:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The community and the package ecosystem "Tedious to write robust code (weak typing, lots of ""magic"" done by the library functions)" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, PHP, R, Rust, Elm, C# QBasic 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Czech Republic Research Post-doctoral researcher Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:06:45Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 R user group, Bauchi, Nigeria. I wanted to do statistical analyses Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python No Never Powerful tool for statistical analyses. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase NA Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R Java 1989 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Nigeria Information Technologies Programmer Software developer NA Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:06:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Intuitiveness once you get the hang of it My team seems to lean towards Python lol General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, R 2 3 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T11:08:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Easy to setup and use. Best support for statistical analysis. No support for quantitative modelling. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Web scraping Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R R 1994 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research Economist Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:09:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually The online community Sometimes choice of packages can be overwhelming and difficult to determine which are outdated Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS R 1994 Female Mixed race Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:10:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to decrease Javascript, Matlab, Python, R purl 1997 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education PhD student Student 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:10:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I like the open source packages and the community that sustains it. The language can be counter intuitive sometimes if coming from another language that isn't focused on data science, especially around non-standard and tidy evaluation. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating tutorials via learnr I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Interactive tables, Custom learnr widgets I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R Java 1992 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD Student Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:12:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine NA 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually end to end solution, R studio and tidy verse NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics, Medicine Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, bash R 1958 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Professor Medical professional 6 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Medicine conference community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-14T11:12:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 5 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually dplyr and ggplot2. Native vectorized operations and data frames. "Not as nice as Python. For example, ""sourcing"" a module is a pain (must set local=TRUE) and looks ugly, and imports all objects from that module." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Web scraping, web applications, APIs, databases Poetry, Pyenv, Black, MyPy 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R, SQL Excel NA Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Legal services Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T11:13:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Marketing Sr. Strategist, Data Innovation Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:15:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In graduate school It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually I can do everything using R/RStudio ranging from statistical analyses to writing papers and making presentations. When I hit limits in the tidyverse syntax and have to go back to base R syntax. This isn't much of an issue for my own programming but can be a pain point when teaching R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts "Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, GitHub sends me ""Explore the Week"" emails that often include updates on repos containing R packages." Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Learning applications and tutorials I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Fortran 1987 female Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education professor Educator 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:15:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Flexibility in data cleaning and statistical analysis and rmarkdown/shiny Unclear error messages, cumbersome shiny syntax, lack of training on security for using with sensitive data. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Tableau R 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Epidemiologist Medical professional 8 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:17:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Can do anything How different packages do the same thing in different ways General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month web scraping R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Basic 1976 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Planning data analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-14T11:17:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Allows for using an ensemble of languages not just R including Python, C++, and JavaScript There's no postfix increment operator (i.e. no i++) Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shiny Server Pro run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA Life Sciences Associate Director, Engineering Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Pharma conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T11:18:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Flexibility Inconsistent syntax Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Julia R 1993 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) South Africa Research Research Scientist Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:20:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Pro No Usually Ease of access and ability to communicate how I did something, even if people don't know R, the tidyverse grammar is transparent enough that folks with some technical experience, but no R, can follow. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Create a interactive search through text, see here: https://shinyapps.asee.org/apps/Research/ I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, R 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, Perl Java 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Director, Institutional Research & Analytics Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:21:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro No Usually It has built up a large amount of functionality over the years so that I can do most analyses within R along with some shell scripting. Parallelization is a bit clunky and the error messages are often uninformative. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Atom IDE 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R BASIC 1968 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Senior Scientist Researcher 1 NA R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:21:31Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 22 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS R 1996 woman european Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Research researcher Researcher 2 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:22:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never syntax flexibility occasionally slow Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning, Software programming, server programming Spyder, wxPython 4 7 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R, bash Matlab 1983 NA Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Researcher Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:24:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually I can see all the steps taken in data analysis NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Textbooks General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel 1983 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Post Doc Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:26:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Being able to reproduce stats or figures in minutes Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R SPSS 1987 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Turkey Research Assistant Professor Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:26:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 8 RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I’m only limited by my imagination. It takes an hour to manipulate a ggplot General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 1 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau R 1974 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Researcher Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:28:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 NA Yes Usually The syntax Complexity to ramp us to creation of shiny app General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Financial Services and Activities Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:28:25Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 MSc course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely Community Syntax Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1990 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Chile Health Care and Medicine NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:29:29Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 1 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA It's a hard transition from SPSS's GUI for stats General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SPSS Commodore BASIC 1977 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Legal Services Data Analyst Manager Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T11:31:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) No Rarely Data visualization Having to highlight a code before I run it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R C/C++ 1996 Male Black/African Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) Nigeria Information Technologies Student Student 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T11:32:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Agriculture 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Speed of writing code DevOps / “production” issues Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda 1 3 I expect it to decrease Javascript, R, C# Java 1983 Male White PhD ABD United States of America Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:35:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1996 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, MApping, GIS 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Vscode No Usually It glues together all processes from data retrieval, tidying data, analyses to presentation A niche program that people outside the 'domain' don't understand General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R FORTRAN 1962 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Sweden Research Environmental analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:38:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Tableau Java 1985 M Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:47:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning the RStudio development environment Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually How easy to write and understand it is No complaints. Best programming language I’ve ever learned! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I don’t unfortunately I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, Tableau C/C++ 1994 Female Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Construction Manager Management 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:48:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually R and data science in general allow me to increase productivity, create new products and reports. It has revolutionized the way I work. Sometimes there are several paradigms and packages when tackling the same problem. Example time series, it has taken me quite some time to select the best packages to use. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Plotly Dash 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1984 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Mexico Financial Services and Activities Sell side equity analyst Financial professional 0 Neutral RStudio::conf, R Finance conference, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:55:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 3 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, MS Word I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS Excel 1995 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Research Junior Research Fellow Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T11:56:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shiny Server I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Databricks 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Basic / Pascal 1983 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Sports Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T12:02:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually The wealth of documentation Package installation problems on Windows/RStudio. RStudio loads certain packages in some circumstances, which makes updating those packages difficult if they have .dlls General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, The package documentation or package source code, debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, rweekly.org, Rviews top 40 RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R Excel 1992 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Construction Senior Predictive Analytics Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T12:02:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I needed to implement new statistical methodology R instead of Matlab How to manage evaluation environments for lazy and nonstandard evaluation when writing computational methods More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Ecology, climate science, geosciences, and other spatial modelling applications 4 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Training tutorials and specific parameterised visualisations I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R Basic, then Pascal, Modula-2, Matlab, C, Modula-3, C++, then R 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research and Education (this poll option seems to have no “University/Higher education&research” compatible option) Chair of Statistics Researcher and educator 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T12:06:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Thought out solutions to a wide array of data analysis problems Defending using R against software engineers/python data scientists General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Server Pro, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Matlab 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-14T12:08:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, GIS 5 10 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Julia Yes Usually The breath of options and possibilities that exist to create beautiful and useful deliverables Cryptic errors of obscure packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R C/C++ 1985 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Assistant Policy Researcher Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T12:08:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Visualization packages and documentation Breaking changes across package versions; integration with LaTeX (mostly an issue with the LaTeX side though lol) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Javascript, R, HTML, CSS R 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Researcher Researcher 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T12:19:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Occasionally I teach R to MSc students and I really enjoy that Troubleshooting other people’s code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation for reproducible research but I don’t use notebooks or pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Teaching I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Basic on a ZX Spectrum 1969 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom University Reader in Evolutionary Ecology (you did ask...) Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T12:25:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Community Differences between dev on Linux vs Windows vs Mac General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Opensource shiny apps I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Web scraping Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic R 1996 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analytics Manager Data scientist or analyst 3 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T12:26:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Geospatial 5 10 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Quick and responsive. Minimal typing to get the result I want. Plus, the community is awesome! Machine learning, deep learning capabilities are not as mature as I'd like them to be. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, SPSS R 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-14T12:26:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau, GitHub, GitLab, RPubs No Usually Automated data analysis (compared to, e.g., Excel), human readable code using tidyverse functions, easy back-up and sharing of projects through GitHub Still takes a long time to write a data processing routine out, even with functions to reuse steps. (Would love to be able to chain together data processing steps in a visual interface, like Scratch programming, Tableau Data Prep, ArcGIS model builder, etc.) Hard to stay up to date with new packages and techniques. Not very well integrated into more powerful, GUI-style visualization tools like Tableau. Doing interface design in R (Markdown, Shiny, etc.) is clunky, would much rather have a GUI that generates the Markdown or Shiny UI code for me. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, RStudio webinars Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Ruby, Tableau, Visual Basic Excel 1982 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-14T12:27:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually No fuzzy stuff about memory management; easy-to-use features for oop Debug tools; General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 4 9 I expect it to decrease Python, R PASCAL 1998 MALE Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Researcher 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T12:36:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Quick data manipulation NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 5 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1990 male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Information Technologies Research scientist Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T12:39:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Documentation in Rmarkdown 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Usually Readable code and the community Understanding error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 4 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau R 1977 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Information Technologies Product Insights Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 60 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T12:43:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis 4 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Occasionally The speed of reading data and the familiarity I now have with the language Some of the error messages can get confusing to figure out or where some syntax may be wrong or falsely flagged General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Transportation GIS Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 6 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T12:44:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Module/ course The Hague University I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The Syntax is very easy to understand. Not having to use loops (allot) to iterate over things. Lots of helpfull packages. One Cran repository for packages. The sensitelligence of the IDE. Actually nothing.. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda 1 4 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1984 Male Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Telco Data Analyst (marketing) Consultant or Advisor 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T12:50:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The wide range of capacities. Going from dirty data to nice visualisations and nice reports. That there _now_ is a lot of opportunities to learn for free (I learned it at a time when seekR was usefull). The motivated and supporting community. Because I use more and more tools (as compared to the original stat analyses I learned it from), there are more and more things that I do not understand, errors that refer to parts of computers and the internet that I have no grasp of. Maybe it evolves a bit too fast to keep track (but then, it is also part of it strengths so...) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R NA 1987 F White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research R programmer Used to be researcher, now data manager 7 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T12:53:38Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Having everything in one environment The learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, STATA SPSS 1986 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America NA Director of Data Researcher 3 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T12:54:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexible, versatile, free NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS QBASIC 1963 Male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Nigeria Education Professor Researcher 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:01:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Jupyter Notebooks NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Java 1992 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Statistician 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:03:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There's a package for everything, great documentation, amazing community Limitations around memory usage and speed, hard to process big data General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R C/C++ 1988 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Principal data analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:04:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Versatility NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Python 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Finland Research Researcher Researcher 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:04:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually magrittr Errors with custom functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 2 9 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R, Tableau Python 1992 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Transportation Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:07:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 NA NA Usually The flexibility of coding, and that it's free. It's outputs. I've build my own outputs. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R bloggers blog Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS 1962 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Israel Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Researcher Researcher 1 Yes, definitely NA R BLOGGERS English 2020-12-14T13:07:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually It's always possible to find answers if I'm not sure how to do something/which package to use, etc. Lack of built-in/official customization options for Shiny themes. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Package readme's. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Survey analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SPSS Python 1982 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Lead R Shiny Developer Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-14T13:11:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 University I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Usually IDE is amazing None Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, R 4 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R, SPSS R 1994 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Information Technologies User Research Researcher 5 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T13:17:54Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Quick, easy to use and very useful Problems with language interface (e.g., I can't type accents with a UK Extended Keyboard in R because it conflicts with shortcuts) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing NA 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Python 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Professional and Business Services Associate Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T13:18:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 As part of graduate school coursework I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually Customizable and great reproducibility tools Managing all of the packages and the frequent updates Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, creating research reports to share with collaborators I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Online prediction model calculators I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R SAS 1980 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Assistant Staff Biostatistician Statistician 5 NA Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference my local R Meetup group English 2020-12-14T13:20:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There’s a package for everything. Code is easy to write and understand. Rstudio is great. Pipes. The apply family/purrr equivalents just don’t click in my head General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 1 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, Visual Basic Scheme 1991 Female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Financial Services and Activities Business analyst Financial professional 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:23:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I enjoy the simple and effective ways one can clean data, and the amount of control users when creating plots and graphics. KnitR happens to be my least favourite. It is very useful, but painfully slow, and a real resource hog. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, making sharable code for working with collaborators I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Pycharm 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Latex, CSS, HTML HTML 1992 female South Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate student Student 15 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:24:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's got many wonderful packages and a great community Inconsistencies in packages, e.g., not following tidyverse principles General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Twitter I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Manufacturing Senior Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:24:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course NA Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibe analyses Building custom packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R Fortran 1955 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Retired Retired Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:28:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The idiomatic data manipulation and visualization that the Tidyverse provides. I hate when I get an ambiguous data type from a function and I just have to try a bunch of: unname(), unlist(), as.data.frame(), as.vector(),... until I get what I want. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Summarize and copy & paste into Google Slides I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating html/pdf docs for sharing with coworkers I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R Java 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Clinical Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T13:32:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibility NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1985 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Fisheries Biologist Researcher 3 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:33:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1995 I knew S and Splus already open source version of Splus none? Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely It's free, and it has a large community of users and package developers listening to computer scientists complain about language features General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month learning markdown :-) I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R PL1, Fortran, Univac 1005 SAAL 1952 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America retired emeritus Statistician 1 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-14T13:33:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Ph.D Advisor required it Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Teaching 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually It is the language of statistics There is a level of clunkiness - e.g. some things easier with base graphics, others with ggplot2; sometimes tidyverse output objects are not readily amenable to base functions www.rseek.org, or my personal library, or R Help files www.rseek.org Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Teaching I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R C/C++ 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-14T13:33:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 1 1 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Modeling R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Javascript, Python, R Visual Basic 1978 male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Research Postdoc Researcher 4 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-14T13:34:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Chrome OS (Rstudio Server) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Server Yes Usually Simplicity Co-workers use py General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RMD + servr + docker I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Dashboards without flexdashboard or any other extra thing I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Go, Python, R C/C++ 1998 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:35:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Usually It's fun NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R meetups CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R C/C++ 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Chief Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Finance conference, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:35:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually The packages! And by extension, the community which develops the packages. I first started using R because it had many useful functions for statistical analysis packaged, but the more I used it the more I appreciate how much the community of R users cares about these packages being accessible and open source. Most people who code in R aren't interested in the efficiency or inner workings of R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R 4 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R Python 1998 Female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Computational Biologist Researcher 3 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T13:43:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually The sheer number of different things the software can do with data, from scraping information from a survey to formatting and analyzing it to creating elegant visuals for communication. Having easily reproducible workflows is a big as well. The lack of conventions in R packages comes to mind. I tend to stick with tidyverse because it has consistently good documentation and sticks to self-imposed conventions (and many other reasons, it's a great set of packages). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R R 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Administrative Specialist Administration 3 Yes, definitely NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T13:46:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually tidyverse, Shiny NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, shared network drives I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, automated reports I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1994 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 100 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:54:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Developing statistics and visualisation tools for students in courses I teach I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1974 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) South Africa Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:57:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually there are existing functions for most common data manipulations tasks inconsistencies, e.g. not type safe functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning NA 3 9 I expect it to decrease Javascript, R C/C++ 1993 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Hungary Information Technologies Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 8 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T13:58:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally Compared to MatLab, it's better for data manipulation. Compared to Python, package and environment management is easier. Good compromise between usability, documentation, and ease of use Slow... but it's a high level language, and there are plenty of ways to support speedup General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 1 I expect it to decrease R Visual Basic 1993 Male Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Research PhD Student Student 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-14T14:03:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server No Usually rapid progress (alwas new capability) Rapid progress (always at the bottom of learning curve) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, supplementing R Anaconda, R 3 5 I expect it to decrease R Basic 1960 I am male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) South Africa Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup r-blogger English 2020-12-14T14:06:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Power BI Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau C/C++ 1980 NA NA Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Austria Not Employed NA Student NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T14:26:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Support and online learning resources fro the community Error messages that mean nothing! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating reports for my own use I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R MS Basic 1963 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Not Employed NA Retired NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T14:27:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually end to end language for data scientist (from data ingestion to web app publication) less advanced than python for deep learning Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Health Care and Medicine Senior Manager Consultant or Advisor 30 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-14T14:41:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), *nix system calls and Rmarkdown to document everything! No Occasionally It's the easiest language I know to get things done. That my R package is required to be tested on Solaris, an OS I know nothing about. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Querying the CRAN list of packages for keywords. Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Rmarkdown I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating *.html documentation of analyses and emailing them to collaborators. I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Genomics R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Biopython 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, perl R 1972 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research associate (non-tenure track faculty) Researcher 10 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T14:42:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic BASIC 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Research Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T14:42:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually It is open source and has a very large community, so you can find help. The steep learning curve to get colleagues to join me using R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic Matlab 1982 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Research Scientist Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T14:43:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Connect Yes Rarely data.table, ggplot2, R community Frequently overlooked by employers, customers, etc., as a production-ready tool General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Julia, R C/C++ NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Oceanographic Data Scientist Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T14:57:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The flexibility, power and easiness to use. And RMarkdown! R base can be a bit cryptic, and there are a few “R dialects” General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), PDF and printed out I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Used frequently in the past for dashboards but now due to professional reasons I can’t use it often I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Databricks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R Python 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Natural Resources and Mining Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-14T15:01:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses None. As an experienced programmer, R was an easy language to learn. Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Power BI No Usually tidyverse, dataframes, no package conflict Nothing. Its my favourite programming language General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Shiny apps I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, PHP, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1975 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T15:06:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually dplyr backends Package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Other internal documents eg PowerPoint I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Application development Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SQL, Cypher SQL 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Manager, Data & Analytics Modeller Consultant or Advisor 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T15:09:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R Scheme 1988 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T15:10:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1998 Through coursework in graduate school It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SAS Yes Occasionally The programming language environment. Some package developers don't update packages often enough. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SAS C/C++ 1974 NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T15:34:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The data oriented syntax (vectorized and functional) The error messages are cryptic Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, DuckDuckGo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, learnr for tutorials I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, through learnr for tutorials I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, aws automation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1965 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Information Technologies software engineer Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T15:35:38Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2006 Hacking other people's code It was useful for my work, but not required, and no specific package Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Genomics, Clinical trials 3 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Notepad++ NA I don't know what tidyverse is Range of packages Not knowing enough to do what I want to General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SAS, SPSS Sinclair BASIC 1974 Male-ish White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Education Associate Professor in Public Health Educator 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T15:37:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Databricks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro No Usually Active creative community. Can be slow and hard to deploy production ready products. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1985 male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Information Technologies Data Science Manager Data scientist or analyst 12 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T15:40:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I think the documentations are really helpful. single core restriction General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, stata C/C++ 1990 male Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Education Marketing Intelligence Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T15:56:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 On the job It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Coding flexibility, out of the box cran packages, constant library expansion Error messages, Rcpp :), need rquantlib in rstudio managed (a financial analytical library in R that includes fixed-income) Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic C/C++ NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Senior Director Financial professional 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Finance conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T15:56:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 3 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Tidyverse R without Tidyverse Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Wolfram Basic 1971 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Hungary Education Associate Professor Educator 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T16:05:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Ease of deployment of robust models Specific syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization R 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic C/C++ 1972 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Financial Services and Activities NA Management NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T16:06:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community! Frustration with my progress, mostly due to time constraints General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA R BASIC 1979 F Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Project Manager Administration 2 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T16:08:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Managing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 3 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Atom Editor, Bash Yes Usually 1. It's open source and has an amazing community; 2. Ithas an interactive command prompt; 3. It has a rich universe of packages which cover almost any need. "Clumsy standard library (base R) which seems to be grown way too ""organically"" (resulting in an API with really bad usability) and misses important functionalities (especially regarding package management)." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, PDF and HTML reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1989 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T16:12:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau, Google Sheets No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, Google Sheets Excel 1985 Man White, Hispanic/Latinx Some college or university, no college degree Brazil Research Data Scientist Researcher 8 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-14T16:23:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, User Interfaces 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Shiny apps especially with advanced HTML and JS integration, tidyverse Debugging and understanding errors can be difficult, also understanding the little differences between multiple functions that do very similar things like understanding someone else's code that uses merge when you typically use joins, etc General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Interactive applications for multiple external user simultaneously via Shinyapps.io and AWS S3 I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing, Medicine Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Shinyapps.io 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R Visual Basic 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-14T16:34:27Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 A combination of books, online courses, swirl, and using as part of an in-person course on statistics. I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I like the ease of use for a beginner by using scripts. I think I am going to like Markdown a lot when I get better and start using R for reports. Error messages. They are not informative enough for beginners. The Help files are also pretty hard to understand, and would benefit from more examples. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1965 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research Graduate Research Assistant Student 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Email English 2020-12-14T16:47:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2001 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Almost everything Guard rails in Shiny, e.g. max data sizes and time outs on loading apps. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease R Perl 1973 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Data Scientist Project Lead Software developer 270 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-14T16:58:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job looking for alternatives to Excel at work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows "Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis, software development including ""builds""" 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, VSCode, Intellij, lots of in-house tools Yes Usually speed discovery of package and function names is hard.... versioning is hard... chaos wins General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, creating internal reports I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Internal user reports (with options) I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Swift, C# BASIC (back in the 80s - before VIsual Basic) 1972 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities Developer Software developer 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T17:06:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Now that I'm familiar with it, it is incredibly quick to create nice graphics and and models. The tidyverse does a great job of matching the way I think about modeling. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R Python 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor, Mathematics Educator 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T17:23:55Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually reproducibility, flexibility it still takes me too much time to get simple datamanipulation done General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month more extensive statistical reports (doc) I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SPSS I am just getting started learning programming 1991 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research NA Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T17:29:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Yes Usually Natively numeric language unlike python. Also has efficient syntax. The C extension interface is cumbersome. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, BiocManager::available() Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I plan to stop using it Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Go, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, Rust C/C++ 1985 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Assistant Student 0 Yes, somewhat PyCon conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T17:32:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 MSDS online I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), PowerBI No Occasionally open source not from a programming background General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, PowerBI I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code, PowerBI 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1985 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Principal Planning Analyst Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T17:34:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Freedom, flexibility, ability to create products based on statistics It's hard to get others up to speed, which has slowed adoption in my organization. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau SPSS 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Organizational Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T17:37:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Modeling/machine learning 5 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Occasionally Coming from a background in mathematics I found R very easy to walk into, vectors, matrices etc. The fact that everything has to be in RAM. Not a huge problem with 16Gb but still. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts other web sites - Kaggle, driven data, numeral I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, R 3 9 I expect it to increase R, fortran (sorry) fortran 1953 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Retired Research Scientist Researcher 0 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T17:38:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually Open source NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating preliminary reports I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Javascript, Python, R, Perl, SQL Pascal 1961 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Research NA Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T17:45:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Reporting 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Automation Spending time finding packages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Reports I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T17:49:36Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is Machine Learning NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R packages built for search such as the sos package NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, R Javascript NA Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Nigeria Not Employed NA None NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T17:51:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning PyTorch 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Matlab, PHP, Python, R Javascript 1989 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate student Student 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T17:59:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually You can do complex analysis with rectangular data very efficiently Base R and surprising returns from function calls (e.g. unexpected types) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Conda 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R BASIC 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Portfolio manager Trader 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T18:02:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Go, Python, R, Swift R 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD Student Student 8 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T18:18:05Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io No Never Free, generate documents using markdown Can't think of any. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Interactive tables, Simulation I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS Excel 1987 female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Instructor Statistician 5 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-14T18:21:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 3 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse package and modeling NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Survey analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 5 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1995 MALE Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Senegal Not Employed NA Statistician NA Neutral R Finance conference, PyCon conference Email English 2020-12-14T18:29:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually Ability to create reproducible analyses using powerful, diverse suite of tools. Tidy eval struggles General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, CV and letters I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Anaconda 3 5 I expect it to increase Python, R, shell shell 1983 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Bioinformatician Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-14T18:34:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I needed it for a class Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually the wide diversity of statistical packages but at the same time knowing which program is the best to use & the difficulty with debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to stay the same R, fortran fortran 1937 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Professional and Business Services Professor - retired Retired NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2020-12-14T18:47:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually How versatile it is Non specific error messages and the update issues. Using proj4, for example it's a headache now Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SPSS Java 1990 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Portugal Research PhD Candidate Researcher 8 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T18:58:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Recommended by my graduate advisor Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Software Development 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), NVim-R (vim) No Usually The community of practitioners and package developers are so supportive Snobbery from Python users General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, creating lessons for workshops I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterHub, R, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, Lua R 1984 Male White, Middle Eastern Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Lesson Infrastructure Technology Developer Software developer 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-14T18:58:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, PowerBI, SQL Server No Rarely NA Package development support General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Manufacturing Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T19:21:28Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, Apex (Salesforce) Excel 1988 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Financial Services and Activities Salesforce Administrator Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T20:13:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, R, Tableau 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau R NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-14T20:20:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) All my coursework and collaborators worked in other software More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The community is always innovating and doing fun things The open-source-ness is great but sometimes leads to packages that don't work properly in one system or another or defaults that are not apparent nor intuitive General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Templates for teaching I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, html html 1971 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T20:21:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Extent of user contributed packages Multiple ways to do the same thing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, On GitHub Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Go, R Excel 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor of Economics Educator 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T20:24:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Occasionally versatility to every task i do - since operating climate data to versatility in d3 graphs memory ram depency General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R R 1986 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) researcher Consultant or Advisor 1 Neutral NA R-bloggers English 2020-12-14T20:40:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Occasionally "Installing new packages usually ""just works,"" unlike Python (in my experience). Free and open source, unlike Matlab." Base R's inconsistent commands make it hard to teach new R users. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Documentation within R itself CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating lecture notes for the courses I teach I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R BASIC 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-14T20:49:37Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Being part of a great group of people who love data I have trouble finding help/examples General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, Stata Fortran 1956 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T21:14:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1994 S-plus, fumbling around I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R Fortran 1973 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-14T21:32:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation 4 5 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse inconsistencies across base R and popular packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation R, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, HTML R NA male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Product Manager Product Management 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T21:47:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Google Sheets Yes Usually The community! They make me feel like anything's possible and even work is a challenging fun problem I can dive into. Plateaus in learning new skills. My office also doesn't use R too much and we don't have a server environment, so sometimes I take breaks when I'm working in other languages and am always rusty when I pick it back up. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau SPSS 1991 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine BI Developer Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-14T21:47:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Community around R and the thought leaders New package discovery and package limitations are not always declared General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 7 I expect it to increase NA Python 1993 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-14T21:51:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Flexibility Spending 45 minutes trying to figure out why on god's green earth my code with perfect syntax won't work before realizing that I forgot to assign the result to an object so R was just doing its thing in the background without actually saving the output to pass to the next command and then not being able to have a drink because it's only 1:00 pm and I'm working. Weirdly specific but I cannot be the only one. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, The package documentation. I feel like it's telling that that wasn't an option by default Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R SAS 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Service Insights Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T21:53:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic Pascal 1984 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Financial Services and Activities Director Consultant or Advisor 6 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T21:54:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Examples and tutorials often use a range of different packages and philosophies (base, data.table, various versions of tidyverse) which can be confusing More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Creative applications (e.g. generative art) 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Qlik, PowerBI Yes Usually Diverse and welcoming community Managing versions of packages and R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Loading into organisation's data warehouse I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom Word documents; creating documentation in .md and HTML I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R BASIC and assembler (I feel old!) 1968 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree New Zealand Transportation Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T22:09:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS R 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Science Manager Data scientist or analyst 6 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T22:10:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job My new company could not afford SAS, which I used to use. Now I use R. Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Almost every problem I have, someone has already solved. I have lag issues, which I suspect are from my work network and associated security. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS SAS 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Economist Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-14T22:10:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1984 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Lecturer Statistician 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-14T22:11:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, SQL R 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Sr. Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T22:14:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Econometrics 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The ability to analyse and visualise large datasets. Speed of processing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), MS Excel and other outputs I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R Excel 1991 Male Indian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) New Zealand Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Economist Consultant or Advisor 3 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T22:21:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The rich ecosystem of packages and flexibility of the language. The website and documentation are lacking. The R community is dispersed among too many different channels. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate Student Student 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-14T22:40:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau No Usually Very quick for the coder to get something done (compared to other languages). "Too many bad ways to get something done (there isn't an R equivalent of ""pythonic"")." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Notebooks (.nb.html) posted to an internal webserver (a shiny server) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Data cleaning, analysis, ETL (all done in a readable way that is easy for my colleagues to follow). I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data, Sharing data and visualizations with colleagues. I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Simulation RStudio Desktop (IDE), PyCharm and bpython 2 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic BASIC 1973 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Quantitative Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA R-Bloggers English 2020-12-14T23:10:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Tidyverse, open source, shiny, dashboard Error message, fewer example for any function in the help section General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS C/C++ 1995 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bangladesh Education NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T23:17:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Tableau Matlab 1992 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Statistician Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-14T23:28:48Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to learn NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R Java 1997 male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Not Employed NA Student NA Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T23:35:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse including shiny Something similar to python numba is missing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Genomics, Clinical trials, Controlling MS office, algorithm development in numba Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R Perl 1977 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Health Care and Medicine Bioinformatics Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-14T23:49:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Clinical trials 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Highly adaptable Version management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Word document I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS R 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Health Care and Medicine Statistical scientist Statistician 5 Yes, somewhat R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-14T23:56:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually The community, the fact that there’s almost always a package does what I need It’s so different from other languages that it’s hard to learn others General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Java 1998 ???? White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Applied Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 100 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T00:37:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Organizing files/code on my computer More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Easiness of data manipulation Difficulty in deploying it professionally General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Norway Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistician Statistician 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T00:41:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The syntax is easy and becomes easier with the pipe operator Memory issues for certain objects at work General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing R, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Visual Basic 1987 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Mexico Transportation Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T00:41:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually How many different R packages can work so well together especially ggplot2 and its ecosystem of extensions. The tidyverse also has a clear philosophy and many packages that follow that philosophy can work very well with each other. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating PDF & HTML reports. I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Applications I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month If the project I join uses python and I'm asked to do the work in Python, then I use it for all the tasks. When I have a choice, I always use R. Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T01:36:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bulgaria Health Care and Medicine Statistical Programmer Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-15T01:42:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, face recognition 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally I like RStudio's interface; everything I need is on one screen. I also like resourceful statistical packages. I don't like RStudio's design. RStudio reminds me of WindowXP, albeit it beats Spyder. I wish RStudio resembles Atom's sleek design. More importantly, it's hard to find versatile packages for emerging technologies compared to Python. As a noob, I waited years for R packages to emerge when I was learning Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure; In contrast, Python had many resources while R-community lagged. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, stackoverflow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis, Face recognition, automation, data-mining/web-scrapping, etc. Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code, Notepad++, Atom 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Visual Basic, HTML, CSS HTML 1989 unicorn human Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Strategist Administration 1 Yes, somewhat NA Mr. Kawaf, you rock, bro. English 2020-12-15T02:10:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually the pipe operator :-) working with dates is sometimes messy (even with lubridate). it's one of the tradeoffs when types are implicitly guessed... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, R, pycharm 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R, Ruby C/C++ 1992 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Financial Services and Activities Actuary Financial professional 3 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T02:14:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Ease to create and share code. Great people. Easy to get started with new projects. Error codes from keras. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, financial analysis, blastula I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, spyder 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS Python 1996 man White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Sweden consultant in all of them Data scientist consultant Consultant or Advisor 144 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T02:40:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive web app I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Java 1991 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Research NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-15T02:40:10Z None By myself using a book or online documentation that is not part of a formal course I think knowing R would open new career opportunities Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis Microsoft Excel, SPSS Learning the RStudio development environment NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SPSS Excel 1984 Female Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Ghana Education Teacher Educator 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T02:48:38Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Tableau Yes Rarely It is fast. When I make typos. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Tableau Maya 1977 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Philippines Education Instructor Researcher 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-15T03:00:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Very small program syntax used for building the application, rich set of functions, and a best data visualization for me specially shiny dashboard with plotly package Some documentation and error handling is tough for me. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, R C/C++ 1998 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Education Student Student 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T03:06:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Tableau Yes Usually Natural for data manipulation (native data frames, NA, three-valued logic). Exception handling is odd General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month replacement for bash Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Tableau, SQL, PL/SQL C/C++ 1987 man White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Belgium Transportation Solution engineer Data scientist or analyst 8 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T03:13:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy coding, open source, shiny to develop proto Package updates, Debugging Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Power BI C/C++ 1990 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Singapore Manufacturing Supply chain Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T03:17:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 As part of my statistics classes It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Python 1996 Female White, Hispanic/Latinx One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Statistician Statistician 4 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T03:21:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server Yes Usually The ease of data manipulation and R being a complete solution for the entire data project i.e. engineering, cleaning, modelling, dashboarding Machine learning can be slow and some models are complicated whereas others have easy packages to use the model. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R Java 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Netherlands Marketing in travel/leisure Teamlead Marketing Intelligence Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T03:25:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually The robustness of the language. Which seem like there is nothing R cannot do. This allows one to explore so many avenues to get their work done faster and in a reproducible way. The fact that it is a single core language. Especially time is of the essence. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, RStudio Server, Shiny Server 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1991 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Zambia Financial Services and Activities Business Intelligence & Analytics Lead Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T03:27:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding vectorized (everything is a vector or a list) and functional (everything is a function) nature of R More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse and brms are the two main reasons I use and teach R. Base R. NAs instead of errors or warnings for out-of-bounds indexes is just a disaster. NULL for a non-existing column - who thought that this is a good idea? General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Programming experiments using PsychoPy. Website building using Django. Teaching. Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R Basic 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Akademischer Rat (~assistant professor) Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T03:33:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Server No Usually Logical to use, easy to google for support non descriptive error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab, SAS Matlab 1997 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Clinical programmer Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T03:55:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 MSc in statistics I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The amount of packages Finding the best way to do something General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Research NA Researcher 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T04:17:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually the excellent community support CRAN package documentation isn't often the clearest or has very limited examples General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Visual Basic 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Research PhD Student Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T04:17:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Wealth of resources available I struggle to use R with medium-large data; I don’t understand tidyeval programming at all (I find it unintuitive and I have haphazard success using it) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Twitter Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 1 1 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R, SAS, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1987 Male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Insurance Actuary Management 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T04:37:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro No Usually writing neat pipes handling package versions! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Company hosted Shiny Server Pro I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Coursera 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Java 1988 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Natural Resources and Mining Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 25 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T04:41:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Google Analytics, Power BI Yes Occasionally visualization and statistical analysis debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R Excel 1987 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Information Technologies Marketing Manager Management 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T04:48:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Extremely powerful, open source, lot's of support materials available online Documentation, error messages, provenance of packages cannot be easily verified General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, bash scripting Perl 1978 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Lecturer Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T04:54:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually reliance on matrices/vectors has clear mapping to statistics NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month interim memos reporting results pre-submission/publication I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R SAS 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Researcher 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T04:58:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 College It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Once you get used to it, it’s a lot more intuitive than python to integrate both data work and stats work A lot of tricks must be picked up over time, steep learning curve unless you are a tidyverse cult member General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, SAS Java NA NA Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Information Technologies Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T05:22:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1998 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took NA More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, SAS C/C++ 1974 m White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Education NA Educator NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-15T05:38:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually "It is fairly easy to access and combine all of my frequently used data sources from within R. I also like the huge world of R packages and the easiness of installing them. The R community is widespread, knowledgeable and helpful, so there is almost always an answer to be found online for any question/problem I might have." NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation NA 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic Pascal 1970 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Research Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-15T05:42:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, SPSS, Tableau, Stata, Eviews, Spad Yes Usually all in one in datascience area being considered as less than python ;) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, SPSS, Tableau 2 4 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau SAS 1985 M Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Insurance Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 15 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T05:50:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, data journalism 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It became like a secound language to me. And I love the the community. "- It's not very used by data scientists in my country - everyone works with Python. - Sometimes I feel it's hard to find someone on the community to talk in my language" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R Javascript 1994 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Portugal Arts and Entertainment Data Journalist journalist 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T06:22:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Ability to customize algorithms and data displays Steep learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Server 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, PHP, Python, R, SAS, Tableau BASIC on C64 1974 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Vice President of Dara Science Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T06:42:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually So easy to work with such large amounts of data When you get unhelpful error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1995 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Media Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-15T06:43:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Usually Open source, powerful data manipulation and standardised syntax/verbs within the tidyverse. I feel that experience with Python is more valued in the commercial sector. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Visual Basic 1982 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Principal Information Analyst Data scientist or analyst 15 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-15T06:46:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 University It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually The packages The time consumed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS, Tableau R 1994 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Information Technologies Data analyst intern Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T06:52:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS R 1996 NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research Consultant Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-15T06:53:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually I like the community and the variety of tools and packages I can use to solve my problems. It tends to be slow when processing big data and very limited by RAM. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Visual Basic 1987 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Philippines Sportsbook Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 30 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T06:57:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Minitab No Usually It allows to do everything Without RStudio IDE it would habe been unaffordable to me General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Applications posted in Twitter Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R FORTRAN IV 1956 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Italy Health Care and Medicine Consultant Consultant or Advisor NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T07:08:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally The power to conduct analysis at speed and depth not possible without it Getting compiled software to run General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Web scraping, AWS Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1967 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Not Employed NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T07:09:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Genomics, GUIs Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R BASIC 1984 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Austria Research Staff scientist Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T07:32:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power bi No Usually Ease of use Limitations on data size (ram) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Principal Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-15T07:53:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 2 6 Python No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research NA Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T08:05:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, SPSS, Tableau, Looker Yes Usually Ease of use; easy syntax with tidyverse Putting into production General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Slide decks; Slack integration (bot) through webhook I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Data pushes inside of Rstudio Connect I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Model visualization that cannot easily be done in BI I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis, Forecasting Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Connect, Tableau, Visual Studio Code, Looker; pip 3 NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic, LookML SAS 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Director, Marketing Analytics Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T08:08:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R BASIC 1975 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Information Technologies Principal Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T08:09:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The amazingly supportive R community Installing package dependencies can be troublesome for newbies. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic FORTRAN 1958 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Oceanographer Consultant or Advisor 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-15T08:21:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Good for analysis Getting the correct package General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1985 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Netherlands Financial Services and Activities Consultant Operations 3 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T08:29:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually You can find a solution to nearly all problems, i.e. there is a package for everything. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Deep Learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Consulting Data Science Consultant Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T08:41:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The comunity NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1985 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Argentina Research Head of data team Researcher 20 Neutral RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T08:52:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The most suited for Data management and analysis. The fact that it's a functional programming makes work a lot easy for me as a data analyst. It is simply the best software. Not to mention the excellent graphing capabilities. I love it. I always look foward to using it! Sometimes it appears slow but not often. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, PHP, Python, R C/C++ 1990 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Kenya Research Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-15T09:00:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterHub, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1987 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-15T09:16:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The ease of loading, cleaning, visualizing, and modeling data. Tools like R Markdown have completely changed how I perform analysis. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Text processing Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1990 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Revenue Systems Analyst Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T09:24:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Flexibility and large ecosystem of packages for data analysis, ML, and statistics. "Not as easily useful for ""general"" programming as Python. Most deep learning work is in Python. Slower than high-performance languages like Julia." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Client reports and presentations I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, General programming Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 5 8 I expect it to stay the same Julia, Python, R, Fortran ASP NA Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Data Science Consulting Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T09:28:19Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Simple, intuitive syntax Package dependencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T09:53:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1994 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro No Usually flexible and powerful environment hard to debug, quickly changing packages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, social media I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, PHP, R, SAS, SPSS C/C++ 1970 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator 8 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-15T09:55:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 JupyterHub, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1986 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Data Science Consulting Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T09:58:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally It's very easy to create interactiv dashboards with Shiny & Co. Sometimes the error messages are hard to comprehend or give no detail about the error at all. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, In ppt presentations or interactive Shiny app distributed to the project partners. I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, PyCharm, Spyder 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1995 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Data Analyst (with focus on machine learning and computer vision) Researcher 4 Neutral UseR conference community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-15T10:06:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Lots of ways to solve problems Machine learning is slow compared to python (scikit-learn) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Visual Studio Code, Spyder 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau, SQL Excel 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Senior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Finance conference Twitter English 2020-12-15T10:08:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Grad school It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 NA Yes Occasionally More complex forecasting than I was able to do in Excel A very steep learning curve as I am not a statistician. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo I don’t yet but I’m hoping to start publishing online with shiny. I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Visual Basic Excel 1990 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Asset Manager Financial professional 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T10:09:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Stata Yes Usually That it is free and have a very active and welcoming community Some of the base R error messages are a bit difficult to dechipher General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Taking notes and writing down formulas I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Research Statistician Statistician 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T10:13:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Occasionally Robust library Speed is slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Fortran 1977 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Malaysia Banking Senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 30 Yes, definitely UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T10:15:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Installing R packages is easy and clear. Documentations are straightforward. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 3 9 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1997 female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education data analytics intern Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T10:19:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Fun, easy to use, free, lots of options for personal style Not enough good cheat sheets for cleaning data Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SQL R 1989 Female White Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) United States of America Education Student Researcher 1 No, not at all NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T10:22:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses How radically different R is from most other stat packages like SAS, SPSS More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 3 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), BlueSky Statistics No Usually It's powerful, widely used, and free. The inconsistency of its functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, SPSS FORTRAN 1956 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Software development Consultant Statistician 12 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-15T10:38:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS, Bluesky statistics Yes Occasionally Its flexibility NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 1 2 I expect it to stay the same Java, R, SAS, SPSS Applesoft BASIC 1975 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 1 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T10:40:57Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 7 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I enjoy the packages of the tidyverse and how it makes the entire machine learning pipeline straightforward and clean. I do not like the syntax. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, Python, R, Fortran Java 1992 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T10:42:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Efficiency Fragmentation of libraries Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 2 2 I expect it to decrease C#/F# C/C++ 1969 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Not Employed NA Management NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T10:44:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work The amount of packages, their inconsistency, and how they do not work well together. Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis, Self torture 1 3 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally R markdown tidyverse, unclear documentation, inconsistent syntax, tidyverse, and once again tidyverse. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Typically, if we need to share something it is better not to use R at all. R may be used preliminarily but for anything professional or that needs to be shared we won't use R. I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, JupyterLab 3.0, Matlab, Tableau 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Matlab NA NA NA Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T10:50:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 3 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Easy to use Unstandardized syntax/rules General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation NA 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T11:01:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Power Point Yes Usually The possibility to automatized various tasks, the easiness of the language, the community. Difficult to connect to API's and to put models into production General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Basic Word Reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Web Scraping Google Colab 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1986 Male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Peru Professional and Business Services NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T11:09:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually Trusted statistical packages and functions Memory limitations Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Audit trail I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Visualization, Web development via Flask Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code, Flask 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic HTML 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Quantitative Modeler Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T11:47:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 First two options It was part of a course I took No obstacle More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 9 RStudio Cloud Yes Usually Rstudio Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Moocs I'm taking, datacamp RPubs.com I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Learning to program NA 3 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau I am just getting started learning programming 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Not Employed NA None NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T11:51:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Everything Studio server can be challenging to run on clusters. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Research Associate II Researcher 1 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T12:00:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community and straightforward syntax This is a tiny gripe, but why does R start counting from 1 instead 0 like other languages? General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, SAS, SPSS Python 2001 Female Asian Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Not Employed Student Student 10 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-15T12:09:37Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses the variety of resources out there, including different packages to solve problems, and being overwhelmed Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, cv 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the community need more training on stats and programs in r General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R I am just getting started learning programming 1990 NA Prefer not to answer Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Education assistant professor Educator 0 Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-15T12:14:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 3 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Free, and wide range of abilities Confusing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, Stata Excel 1997 male Black/African, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA Student NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T12:19:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to build scripts/pipelines to automate data retrieval and processing in a work context (data analysis) Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The helpful, inclusive, generous community, and excellent documentation Feeling embarrassed when I don't know fairly fundamental things in base R, because I do everything in the tidyverse :-) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Currently just as a user of things other people have built eg dialogues within RStudio add-ins such as blogdown new post or when creating a reprex etc I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1977 I'm a man White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United Kingdom Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-15T12:22:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The ease with which I can go from raw data to useful visualizations, models, (shiny) web apps, etc. Deployment and package management on Linux (my company does not use RStudio Package Manager) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating package vignettes I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Deep learning- Keras Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 2 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, R, Tableau R 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Analytics Engineer Software developer 1 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-15T12:23:07Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Having previously had to abandon projects because I couldn't afford SAS after leaving an academic job, R being free was a huge selling-point Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 3 7 Does git/Github count? Yes Usually The community and amount of excellent online resources "1) There's such duplication in packages, it takes me ages to find the ""best"" one for doing quite simple things (for example, cross-tabulating a variable). Figuring out ""how to choose"" a certain package without asking someone is really hard..! 2) The error messages are pretty uninterpretable compared to Stata/SAS, although I'm yet to find one I couldn't google" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating interim reports/data exploration documents to share with collaborators I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 3 I plan to stop using it R, SAS, Stata Stata 1989 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Research Fellow Epidemiologist 2 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-15T12:26:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually Being able to produce a clear, open, transparent, and reproducible data analysis document. Errors. Infinite errors that I have to google all the time and find out what the hell is going on. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, ECRs! (Professors don't know anything about R!) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five. Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau, JASP, JAMOVI Excel 1985 Man (He/His/Him) White, Mediterranean Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Postdoctoral researcher Researcher 0 No, not really Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-15T12:33:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I love that it is free and robust in the amount of data it can handle. I also love the community around it- I feel like I am supported in finding answers to questions I have. I wish there was more documentation when packages updated about what might change and how to troubleshoot. I also wish I didnt feel like I had to rely so much on the creators of specific packages when I had questions, I wish there was more centralized support that could help (maybe there is and I dont know about it) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS 1993 Female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education Graduate Student Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T12:37:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually visualization NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email I expect it to increase """five"" ""ten"" ""fifteen""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS C/C++ 1969 female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Associate Director Technical lead Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely R Pharma conference Email English 2020-12-15T12:41:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro No Occasionally How expressive it is How much legacy baggage has stuck around General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Infrastructure development Conda, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Go, Java, Javascript, Julia, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Visual Basic PHP 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Science Software Engineer Software developer 3 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T12:43:53Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Downloading and installing the software I don't use R any more Microsoft Windows I just couldn't get it to work for me, so I bailed. 1 1 NA No Rarely NA "It choked on my name (with an ' in it) on the first day. It seemed everyday thereafter R wanted to pick a fight with me about file storage, data location, etc. Once I got that sorted each morning, the bloom really was off the rose. I went through what I learnt through some online vids and a one-day class. None of it was sufficiently useful to pull my time away from what I was already using. I walked away from R Note: I've tried to take up R twice. Once the first year it was out. Again last year. It is not a friendly piece of software. It's an asshole. Also note: I am neither afraid of nor new at software, even very raw software with shitty UI." NA NA NA I plan to stop using it five I don't use R Markdown NA I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, PHP, Visual Basic Basic. Like, the way basic first version. In the early 80s. I was still in grade school, but mom sent us to our one and only summer class at the high school NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Evaluation NA Evaluation 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T12:44:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Survey analysis Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, SPSS, Stata 3 7 I expect it to decrease Excel, R, SPSS, Visual Basic, Stata Excel 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T12:50:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually How easy and simple it is The quite small community compared to python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Just learning currently NA 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS Excel 1997 Male White Some college or university, no college degree Sweden Not Employed NA Student 10 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T12:53:35Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally It's fast and powerful! N/A General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Microsoft Excel, R 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R Python 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Data Analyst Statistician 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T12:59:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Usually Open source, powerful data manipulation and standardised syntax/verbs within the tidyverse. I feel that experience with Python is more valued in the commercial sector. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Visual Basic 1982 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Principal Information Analyst Data scientist or analyst 15 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-15T13:05:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Semiconductor Manufacturing 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tibco Yes Usually Online materials , especially video. The rstudio ide and markdown documents. Modelling General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Youtube- Tidy Tuesday or Julia Silge Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, Visual Basic C/C++ 1988 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Manufacturing Engineer Process Engineer 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T13:10:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Never encoutered any obtacles in the first year I used R. However it was part of classes and was at quite slow pace over the years More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 6 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Making plots (using the base graphics library) Generalizing parts of code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research PhD student Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T13:43:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The tidyverse ecosystem and R user community Esoteric error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to increase SAS, SPSS, SQL SPSS 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-15T13:50:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I can make reports look impressive & be useful The learning curve! NHSR community slack Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, R Basic 1972 female White Some college or university, no college degree United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Clinical Network Coordinator Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-15T13:51:18Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Learning the RStudio development environment Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's straightforward once you know the language. The syntax is very technical and not modeled after human language (like Python somewhat is) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis, Teaching Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Java 1993 Male White Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) United States of America Research Research Assistant Researcher 1 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T14:06:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Genomics, Medicine 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Free, widely used and loads of great documentation Hard to get others who are not interested in programming to use it - rstudio.cloud is a big step forward, but developing a good GUI may be of use Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1998 male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine medical student Student 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T14:17:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1998 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually It fucking rocks nothing Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 2 4 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic C/C++ 1978 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America nonprofit Data Scientist Statistician NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T14:21:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No I don't know what tidyverse is Versatility Poorly explained error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, R Excel 1977 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Senior Lecturer a Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T14:25:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Statistical NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I plan to stop using it Five I don't use R Markdown NA I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 9 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Excel 1988 Men White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Information Technologies Product owner Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T14:41:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, GutHub Yes Occasionally The range of what can be analyzed or created. For some analyses/datasets there is not enough RAM. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Ruby R 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate Research Assistant Student NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-15T14:51:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Submit to professor on Moodle I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 2001 Female White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) United States of America Education Student Student 20 I'm not sure NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T15:14:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually the versatility! hate from python users General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Java, PHP, R Pascal 1978 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education associate professor Educator 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-15T15:28:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Writing projects in Rmd 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, git No Usually Wide availability of resources to learn new skills Parallel processing is haphazardly used in packages & causes freezing issue in interactive sessions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Teaching I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Stan Excel 1988 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T15:34:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No I don't know what tidyverse is FREE! And awesome graphics. And there's always something new to learn about it. Upgrading is a pain. Please automate library transfer so I don't have to reinstall everything or copy directories manually! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) I don't share. Only use R for my own personal projects now. I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week knitr I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Have only used it in learning exercises thusfar I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, HTML, ColdFusion Pascal 1957 Female White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Not Employed NA Retired 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-15T15:46:43Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally the community lack of speed for some processes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, github I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation emacs 3 6 I expect it to increase R R 1980 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Postdoctoral research fellow Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-15T16:46:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Genomics Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 2 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1998 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-15T17:04:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally The freedom in how you can code things, allows practically any analysis in the world to be done if you invest the time. It makes hard things easy (like complex models) but easy things hard (like changing a legend title), relatively General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1997 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Canada Research Masters student (M.Sc)/ graduate student Student 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T17:29:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually ggplot and piping loops with curly braces General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, specific package docs General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R BASIC NA male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Statistician 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T17:36:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There are a lot of materials out there designed to teach R for exactly what I am using it for (population biology and morphology) I still often struggle with importing and exporting data into and out of R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week I use R Markdown for everything because I find it keeps me better organized than scripts I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 2000 Cisgender woman White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Not Employed NA Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-15T17:37:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 6 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Usually It's flexibility Depreciated packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SPSS Html 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Information Technologies Research Data Scientist Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T17:39:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom HTML documents for GitHub pages I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Stata Stata 1991 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-15T17:40:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually I love solving data problems using the R language - I can do nearly anything I want to do. I can't think of anything I don't like about using R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R SAS 1983 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T17:48:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Being able to document/trace everything that I do with my data (super useful in exploratory stages and collaboration!!) Always buggy when adjusting graph sizes/lineups General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA 2 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1995 NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate student Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T17:55:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Tableau Yes Usually Rstudio Base R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 3 7 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R, SAS R 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 9 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T17:58:56Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, neuroimaging analyses 4 10 Matlab, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community and flexibility of the program including output options. Trying to problem solve fairly basic issues. For example, even now I cannot output a table displaying [ mean (SD) ] as a column header and variable values in the rows below (e.g., Age, weight, etc.). Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Basic data analyses. I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None Excel 1972 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Assistant Professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-15T18:01:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to learn machine learning Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually User friendly and great docs Not really supported by the CS community for building software yet Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Javascript Python 1995 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education student Student 10 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-15T18:18:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Mode Analytics No Usually The academic/statistical computing origins of R and the diverse community "I am still not very good at R ""programming""" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R Pascal 1985 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Telecommunications Senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-15T18:30:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1993 female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Research NA Student NA No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T18:49:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Statistical research. Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually Flexibility, cost, reproducible research. Statistical analyses. The diversity in ways of doing things (flexibility but so many options). Inconsistency in coding. Unverified packages/approaches. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Web page that’s easy to use. I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SAS 1978 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator 15 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-15T20:42:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Interactivity - fast ad hoc analysis Keeping an environment up to date General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Visual Basic 1971 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Manufacturing Quality Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T21:14:58Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually ggplot2 Packages seem to change in significant ways more often than I would prefer. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None C/C++ 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Military Senior Scientist NA 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T21:25:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 answering stackoverflow I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually short code time to find the right function and how to use it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora answering stackoverflow Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Embedding data cleansing reporting with cleansing code I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation NA 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, PHP, Python, R C/C++ 1972 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) French Polynesia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T21:59:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Flexible data manipulation and visualization loading data issues e.g. need of stringsAsFactors = FALSE General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda 2 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R R 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Japan Research NA Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-15T22:13:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Accessibility, open-source approach, and the community. Specifically in the IDE of RStudio, it would be a great option to select and set different color options between projects. I often have several projects open at a time and flip between them and having a color identification within in each project would help me keep them straight General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, LinkedIn posts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R NA Female Asian, Middle Eastern Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Legal Senior Data Analytics Consultant Consultant or Advisor 1 Neutral RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-15T23:14:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The ecosystem: packages, rstudio, ESS, rmarkdown, pandoc, etc. Error messages remain terrible, namespace conventions (compared to python) lead to mysterious bugs because you're unknowingly calling the wrong package, debugging still seems primitive, maybe I just don't know how to use. it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic PL One (1975) 1954 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 2 Yes, definitely R Finance conference r-bloggers English 2020-12-15T23:58:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Much more powerful and flexible than alternatives like excel. Diagnosing can programming can be difficult. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Matlab 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T00:15:39Z None By taking an In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I would like to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Machine learning/modeling, Text analysis Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, SPSS, Tableau Just getting started NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1986 female Asian, Arab Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Malaysia Research PhD candidate Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference Email English 2020-12-16T00:28:01Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Simplicity and tidyverse packages Documentation available General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Ruby, Swift, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic NA NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Finance manager Financial professional 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T00:44:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R Java 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Associate Professor Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T00:45:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Power bi, Spotfire Yes Usually The community Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Spotfire 2 4 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic, Dax, html/css Visual Basic 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Information Technologies Analytics Consultant Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T00:47:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Its community Non-intuitive base R behavior/defaults General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Jupyter notebook (r-irkernel) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Senior Scientist II Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat R Finance conference Twitter English 2020-12-16T00:47:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1999 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase PHP, R BASIC 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2020-12-16T00:51:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually open source speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1991 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Kenya Health Care and Medicine Data Manager Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-16T00:51:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 Initially by myself, but didn't use it much; started using it a lot after a university course in IIRC 2012 I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server, SPSS, Tableau No Occasionally Focus on data and analysis process Idiosyncratic data types General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Studio Code 2 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Go, Java, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ 1985 NA White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Germany Information Technologies Managing Partner Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-16T01:00:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Statistical programming is its focus rather than an afterthought and the tidyverse is extremely user-friendly. Package management (keeping track of updates, consistency across collaborators) can be tricky. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Twitter I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Web scraping Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1996 women Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Arts and Entertainment Quantitative Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-16T01:05:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Didn’t really have obstacles I don't use R any more Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 7 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Occasionally Quick and easy Cliquishness of community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interacting with electronic gadgets NA 2 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Bash AppleSoft BASIC 1973 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Software engineer Software developer 0 No, not really Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-16T01:06:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning stats More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Bioinformatician Researcher 25 I'm not sure RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-16T01:29:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Diversity of packages Lack of validity of some packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Visual Basic 1986 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Korea, South Research Data analyst Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA Facebook English 2020-12-16T01:30:52Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views Email I expect it to decrease three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Survey analysis Anaconda 4 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1979 Man Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Korea, South Research survey researchers Researcher NA Neutral RStudio::conf Email English 2020-12-16T01:30:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Ease and expressiveness of tidyverse pipelines traceback() not on by default, inefficient to iterate over large files (as possible in python), rstudio crashy and limited compared to other ides/editors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 5 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R Java 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 15 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T01:40:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 2000 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Arts and Entertainment NA Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T01:40:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same None R 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Computational scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T01:43:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Free software NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R Swift 1972 NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Korea, South Education NA Educator NA Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T01:44:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually User-friendly It is slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase "15/3 = ""Five""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1995 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Pakistan Research Student Researcher 8 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T01:54:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Syntax, Pipe, Tidyverse, Documentation Debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Twitter I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Distill I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization Anaconda, Spyder 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1986 Male White, Europe Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Research Associate in Civil Engineering Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T01:54:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Power BI Yes Usually It's great fun Sometimes slow (which is probably my poor code) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T02:02:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses NA Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Web scraping 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Great community and online resources Memory issues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Austria Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T02:07:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Great functionality, god community sometimes i get stuck, some documentation is not quite up to scratch General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS basic NA female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Associate professor statistics and agronomy Statistician 12 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T02:08:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SPSS Excel 1993 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD Candidate Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T02:14:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally package ecosystem ram limit General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same NA Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1979 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine statistical research Statistician 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T02:14:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Microsoft Excel, R 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1993 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research NA Student NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T02:16:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Survey analysis, Spatial data analysis 4 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely The range of packages and co..unified of developers The push to evolve the language towards Tidyverse. It's becoming too separated from base syntax. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research NA Researcher 15 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T02:24:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Rarely Easy syntax and package management The more advanced aspects of the language are hard General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R Python 1999 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Accommodation and Food Services Intern Student 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T02:26:33Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The repeatability, beautiful charts, and friendly community. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Health Care and Medicine NA Administration 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-16T02:28:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Survey analysis 3 7 Microsoft Excel Yes Occasionally it's free. i can just run a t test or whatever pretty easily. it doesn't give me mountains of results (lookin at you, SAS) when i just need a mean i've been using it for 4 years and becoming good at it (in the way that people with #rstats in their twitter bio are) seems absolutely unachievable to me General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, export to excel, interpret for colleagues. i'm the only one in my department who uses R I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python C/C++ 1992 agender Asian One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research sr research assistant Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-16T02:29:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Relatively easy to learn and get started (as compared to Python) and the huge supporting community The multiple ways to do things: for example base R vs Tidyverse. It becomes difficult to stick with one, especially when you reach out to the community with a problem and you get a solution that is base R and not Tidyverse, for example. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Interactive tables, Geo Spatial Visualization, Model Building and Deploying I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1966 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Analytics Consultant Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-16T02:47:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy Slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 2020 man Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Korea, South Research Engineer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Finance conference Facebook English 2020-12-16T03:52:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually Easy and fast applying it on the job NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase "for example if you want 3 to be your answer, type ""three""." Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau Java 1986 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Korea, South Information Technologies Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-16T04:02:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 NA Yes Usually Tidyverse for loops Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, Tableau C/C++ 1992 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Professional and Business Services Program Manager Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T04:10:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Very intuitive and easy to use for EDA, data manipulation and visualization Doing machine learning is a lot harder than other languages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, PyCharm 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, SQL Python 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Israel Financial Services and Activities Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T04:11:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never efficiency at problem solving R packages that demand a new/different coding style than R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1989 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Greece Research Fisheries Observer Researcher 0 No, not really UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-16T04:24:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro, Tableau Yes Usually data.table package and the community in general the lack of a proper tensorflow port General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, R 2 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic C/C++ NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Arts and Entertainment Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T04:45:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and suitability for academia Difficulty finings solutions to errors when the arise General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1999 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Research Research Assistant Researcher 1 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T04:58:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, R I am just getting started learning programming 1997 Female White, Slavic Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Not Employed NA Student 0 Yes, somewhat R Finance conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T05:19:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually NA it's systematically and comprehensive General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating html reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1983 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Associate Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-16T05:20:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Because there are so many ways to do the same thing, its hard to remember at the beginning the one you used previously and hence hard to write scripts quickly. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Its fun - like puzzle solving. You can do anything. Impossible to keep up with everything that people create for it. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS Fortan 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Education Biostatistician Statistician 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2020-12-16T05:25:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually gorgeous ecosystem of package package conflicts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Go, Javascript, Python, R Visual Basic 1964 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Information Technologies project manager Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-16T05:33:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually It is very intuitive and logical, you code like you think A lot of the documentation don't have good examples General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Genomics, Medicine Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, R, Spyder 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R Basic NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Postdoc Researcher 20 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-16T05:48:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually it's very easy to start with small examples and extend them to the final result debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SPSS Java 1985 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Phd student Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-16T05:57:42Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 7 RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SPSS SPSS 1983 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Researcher Data scientist or analyst 4 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-16T05:59:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server Yes Usually Using R Markdown with Latex Automatical conversion of data types and structures which happen without notice General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SAS 1969 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-16T06:07:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually The R community! Many ways to do one thing. Stack overflow answer may be correct, but not for the way I'm doing something. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, R Pascal 1976 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Safety Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T06:11:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I needed an open-source version of Splus The documentation I was looking at didn't explain how to get data from a spreadsheet/csv into the console. This took me 6 months to figure out. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Hydrogeology 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Usually Tidyverse (and related, i.e., sf) packages have a common syntax meaning there is little need to go to StackOverflow to figure out how to do what I need to do. "NA" help() and package-specific documentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-bloggers Reports, usually in pdf. I also use R to create MODFLOW model files. I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling Conda 1 1 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic, FORTRAN Visual Basic 1976 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Environmental consulting Hydrogeology Practice Lead Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T06:15:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Factors! The book and examples I first used created dataframes with factors - but had not warned me about them. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Microsoft Power BI Yes Usually tidyverse. The clarity of df2 = df %>% filter(xx) %>% group_by/join/arrange etc without needing intermediate results creating my own functions in the style of dply and interpreting arguments using enquo etc General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Power BI I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, Power BI 2 3 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic APL 1959 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Natural Resources and Mining Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T06:53:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to use for data manipulation and analysis RAM constraint General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, LinkedIn Shinyapps.io, LinkedIn I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Anaconda, Databricks, Microsoft Excel 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, VBA C/C++ 1987 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Singapore Financial Services and Activities Data Strategy Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Facebook English 2020-12-16T07:13:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Marketing Digital Operations Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T07:44:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse Data structures are terrible to manipulate without tidyverse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, R C/C++ 1991 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Research Fellow Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T07:50:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was getting more difficult to justify paying for SAS, so I knew I needed to learn an open source language. Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually R Markdown It can be difficult to exclude outdated information while searching for a solution. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), R Markdown I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS "Pascal in high school & college. SAS was the first ""analytics"" language I learning (college)." 1973 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Statistical Analysis Sr. Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-16T07:53:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, agronomical trails 4 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro No Occasionally the expandability; a lot of packages, that are also open source. so easy to change for a specific use case if needed or you can build upon documentation is not always the same standard for each package General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating html reports for sharing results I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, image analysis Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Server Pro, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R PHP 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Belgium Biotechnology junior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) https://www.r-bloggers.com/ English 2020-12-16T08:25:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I needed to do a lot of data restructuring. And it was free!. All of the new vocabulary (not understanding the documentation) & basics of programming Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SPSS, Tableau Yes Occasionally Flexibility and when new method is needed I can almost always do it in r Some packages are better than others, if I don't use it for a while it takes a while to remember/get back into it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Colleagues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau R 1980 Non-binary. Please also collect data on natal sex since natal females are underrepresented in stem and as important as gender in this context.. White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Snr research scientist Researcher 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T08:32:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually I just enjoy using all the Rstudio libraries. If we are talking about R not Rstudio the UI. It's not too fun to code in R's UI. The UI is just plain awful 😕 General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Matlab 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS, Tableau Java 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Not Employed Student None 1000 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T08:51:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1993 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Arts and Entertainment Digital Media Specialist NA NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T09:23:06Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Visualization 3 5 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau 5 9 I expect it to increase Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1992 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Nigeria Information Technologies Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-16T09:32:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually community minimal cloud-based computing resources (without RStudio Connect) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Tableau C/C++ 1993 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Energy Transmission Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-16T09:47:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually To me, the workflow for data analysis is intuitive, especially with the Tidyverse suite of packages. I wish it were easier to integrate it into cloud computing systems. My team always struggles with hosting and deploying containerised applications. It's possible that we are not doing it in the most sensible way, but it seems that the productionisation ecosystem around Python is much easier to work with in general. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, The R for Data Science online learning community slack channel General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1972 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Consulting Director of Data Science Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-16T09:49:28Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually "I am transitioning from SPSS (syntax) to R. I know how to do a thing in SPSS and I enjoy figuring out how to do it in R. I also look at what less experienced colleagues have done and try to improve it or make it more streamlined." The error messages are not very clear but The Google helps troubleshoot. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts None, I work mostly with data prep and pass the data to someone else for analysis. I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1971 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research manager, data operations Researcher 5 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T09:55:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Open, flexible python is catching up and may go ahead General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks 5 8 I expect it to increase Javascript Basic 1983 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Sweden Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Statistician 1 No, not really Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T09:58:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It makes me FOCUS. And the community :) Not having a clear pathway. It's great when I have some example to follow, but still hard when totally on my own. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1980 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Czech Republic Research Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-16T10:02:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora NA NA I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Java, R, SAS Java NA NA NA NA NA Research NA Student NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T10:07:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS Yes Usually The versatility of uses Having to keep up with the tidyverse team breaking old package functionality General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic, Stata Visual Basic 1992 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Graduate Research Assistant Statistician 6 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-16T10:09:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually easy to use less reputation in the data science field General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, R C/C++ NA 985 White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Financial Services and Activities Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T10:12:39Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The seemingly limitless possibilities "The grind, and the overwhelming number of online resources - what's ""best""?" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I haven't, yet! I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None I am just getting started learning programming 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research Lead Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T10:35:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually I'm very productive database connectivity General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, plumber API I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R BASIC 1980 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Slovenia Information Technologies data scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-16T10:36:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Applied the examples on my own data and problem More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 2 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Suits for analytics and data science Slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Package's help Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Publish article to rpubs.com I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code, Pycharm 3 5 I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1991 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Indonesia Information Technologies Senior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-16T10:43:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibility & ease of using and running the same analyses in the future Multiple packages to run the same function - can be both a pro and a con General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS C/C++ 1994 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education PhD student Researcher 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T10:45:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding time to learn while doing my job More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Single source for everything from data import to cleaning to analysis to visualization NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, static html page to share analysis at work I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS SAS NA NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Director of Information Strategy & Analytics Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-16T10:56:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Reproducibility, flexibility, critical thinking Decoding errors (sometimes) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab Excel 1995 Female Mixed - white and black African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD researcher and associate lecturer Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T10:59:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Qualtrics Yes Usually I like the open-source environment and community. There are so many dedicated developers who have provided packages or explanations that have been helpful to my R use. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau R 1989 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Research and Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T11:05:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually The community is constantly advancing what we can do in easy and interpretable ways Upgrading R and then having to re-install packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Doctoral Candidate Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T11:12:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 College coursework I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The online community and availability to find answers with zimple google searches NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 1 I expect it to decrease Excel, R Visual Basic 1968 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Transportation Flight Planner Specialist 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T11:14:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually NA The inconsistencies across packages in terms of naming, data structures, etc. Broom is a godsend General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 2 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Matlab, Python, R, SAS Java 1977 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Health Care and Medicine NA Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T11:23:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to learn and implement. Data processing from start to end, all in one tool. Memory capacity issues, which I'm not familiar about. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase R Excel 1994 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Costa Rica Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-16T11:27:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Syntax Documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Saudi Arabia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Information researcger Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T11:36:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), VS Code No Usually Visualization and Data Wrangling Nothinh ;-) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Teaching I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Matlab, PHP, Python, R Basic 1976 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Professor Researcher 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T12:23:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Community, documentation, ease of data analysis, availability of feature rich packages NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1992 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data analyst specialist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-16T12:28:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Stata Yes Usually Flexibility over programs like Stata NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to stay the same R, Stata Stata 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine PhD student Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T12:58:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Visualization Puting in Production Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I plan to stop using it Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning R NA 9 I expect it to increase Python, R PHP NA Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Information Technologies Data Scientist Statistician 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T13:01:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually ggplot i like dplyr but find the verbs verbose General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, workflow Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Matlab 1993 female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United Kingdom Research Graduate student Researcher 10 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-16T13:03:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually supportive community, solid statistical tools reproducibility still relies on downstream analyst's proficiency in R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, ropensci blog Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, distill I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month geospatial analysis, scripting in ArcGIS Anaconda 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1981 male mixed Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Research Specialist Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T13:18:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1997 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was open source, and S wasn't. Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 1 1 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Never NA Everything in The R Inferno. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month "Creating custom PDF documents (not using ""pagedown"")" I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Text processing Visual Studio Code, emacs 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, fortran BASIC. 1981. 1966 NA NA One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree NA Education Senior Research Fellow Researcher 10 No, not at all UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-16T13:20:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 3 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora NA Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Basic (Not Visual Basic, just Basic) NA Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Senior Account Manager Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-16T13:30:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Good abstractions Non vectorizable problems General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Api I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Modeling JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Python, R Java 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Norway Insurance Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-16T13:31:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally The flexibility. The vast amount of packages. The function based syntax NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1986 non binary White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-16T13:36:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Tableau Yes Usually The possible workflow of obtaining data, cleaning it, analyzing it, and reporting on it. Trying to figure out markdown and Latex. It would be awesome to have a better user friendly, intuitive way to make more complex markdown documents. Like if I want to make visual I for graphics where I can change the background colors and design of pages (think like Canva capabilities) that would be all I personally need for R to be completely stellar! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1990 Female Black/African, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Data Integration Specialist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T13:42:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Fun problem solving Breaking changes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Outputting reports for collaborators (Word), creating PDF's of workshop material I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Apps to allow others to explore data, perform stats tasks I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS SAS 1976 woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Academia (education & research in natural resources field) Research Consulting Statistician Statistician 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-16T13:46:40Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 NA RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It is much easier than Python to create reports. Since it is not a general language, I will only be doing analysis with it. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Financial analysis Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1979 male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Manufacturing Test Engineer Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T13:48:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io No Usually The community Condescending judgement from Python users General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 2 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Java 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Manufacturing Sr Manager Data Science Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-16T14:12:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The environment panel is incredibly useful for helping me stay organized The wild wild west of how many user created packages are out there makes me hesitant to use them because there's not an official list of certified packages. Like I can do linear regression in one package, and get a different result than in another package, and that is terrifying because I need easy reproducibility. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, reddit.com/r/rstats Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Tableau C/C++ 1996 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Research Research Assistant Researcher 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T14:24:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job Unsatisfied with Matlab Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, ShinyProxy Yes Usually Broad coverage of statistics, data science/tidy verse, ML, shiny apps, rmarkdown NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Shiny server, shinyproxy I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Bigger apps, database interfacing I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Collaboration NA 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, Visual Basic Excel 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Senior engineer Data scientist or analyst 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T14:28:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 7 JupyterHub, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually How easy it is to manipulate data with dplyr Uncertainty about the future General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, JupyterHub, RStudio Server Pro 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, Python, R Java 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Financial Services and Activities Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-16T14:42:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power bi No Usually Ease of use Limitations on data size (ram) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Principal Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-16T15:09:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually vectorised functions, and access to the function's source NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation NA Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 4 4 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1997 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Morocco Student Student Student 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T15:12:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Tableau Yes Usually The possible workflow of obtaining data, cleaning it, analyzing it, and reporting on it. Trying to figure out markdown and Latex. It would be awesome to have a better user friendly, intuitive way to make more complex markdown documents. Like if I want to make visual I for graphics where I can change the background colors and design of pages (think like Canva capabilities) that would be all I personally need for R to be completely stellar! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1990 Female Black/African, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Data Integration Specialist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T15:18:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually working with data and visualization interactively historical layers. of syntax as a result of developed by a group of people General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS FORTRAN!!! 1950 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Retired Retired 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T15:21:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Tribal Environmental Specialist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T15:21:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Both by myself and on the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Occasionally RMarkdown! Syntax changes quite frequently for some packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1987 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Singapore Health Care and Medicine Research Associate Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T15:37:08Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Visualization, Descriptive statistics 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Pretty dataviz after learning tidyverse basics My lack of knowledge of basic functions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Twitter; Dataviz workshop with colleagues I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SAS, Stata Stata 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Health Care and Medicine Postdoctoral researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T15:55:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually I love the community. People love helping each other out and it seems like there is always a new package or angle to try. It isn't as popular as other languages, so many services aren't applicable/ General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase R, Tableau, Visual Basic Python 1996 Non-binary White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Associate Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-16T16:42:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Figuring out how to teach R to students. Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually It's free and adaptable When the syntax isn't standard and it varies. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books. Especially R for data science General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Maple, Sage C/C++ 1975 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor of Mathematics Educator 2 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-16T17:10:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It has a comprehensive packages ecosystem. R has some language limitations compared with Python, for example. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, Machine learning, Survey analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 4 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R C/C++ 1957 Male Black/African, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Senior Professor Educator 50 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, PyCon conference community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-16T17:18:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually How easy it is to perform complex analyses When a seemingly simple task seems impossible General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel R 1974 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Scientist Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-16T17:26:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase R NA 1977 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Education NA Researcher NA Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-16T17:55:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Ease of use across skills, multiple ways to navigate different problems None! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com NA I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1995 Female White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Research Fellow, PhD Candidate Student 5 Yes, somewhat NA NA English 2020-12-16T17:55:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested There weren't that many resources for learning R back in 2008 More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The amazing range of things I can accomplish Creating efficient and reusable workflows takes a lot of time General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau FORTRAN 1965 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Senior Strategic Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-16T18:28:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau, I would like to use RStudio Connect but it is cost prohibitive for a consultant Yes Usually Abundance of packages; helpful, supportive and generous community Inconsistent naming; can be hard to determine best practice; syntax can still be tricky; error messages and debugging can be difficult to work through General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1985 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Professional and Business Services Research manager Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T18:37:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually free NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, reports I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, SAS, Visual Studio Code 1 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Julia, Python, R, Visual Basic R 1988 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Information Technologies analytics engineer Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T18:46:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda 3 5 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1977 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Korea, South Education Research analyst Educator 0 Neutral RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Facebook English 2020-12-16T19:21:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Rarely Maniabilité Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Github General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, Papers I expect it to increase """Five""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, R, Stata16 5 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1985 Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research ECONOMIST -DATA ANALYST Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T20:12:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Spatial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community, documentation and scientific/statistical foundations Other programmers usually make joke about r and say it’s more like a toy than a tool General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Spatial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, PyCharm 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1993 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Research Research assistant Researcher 4 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T20:33:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Power BI Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, SQL Excel 1989 Man Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Syria INGO IM officer Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-16T21:10:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually open source well written resources and documentations are quite limited General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SAS Excel NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Malaysia Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T21:28:54Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses "NA" More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The ease of doing data manipulation and modeling The inconsistency of syntax across different packages (e.g. tidyverse vs. base) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R R 1992 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Assistant Professor Researcher 5 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-16T21:41:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Building up standard project structure and build scripts More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 3 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually "- Flexibility - Interactive console - Scoping model - Manipulating data is quite easy and much less cumbersome compared to Java or Python - Producing visualizations is aided significantly by community-developed packages - Shinyapps" "- Flexibility - Exception handling is difficult to teach and grok, which makes debugging and defensive programming extremely difficult - Non-package project structures vary wildly, so automation/workflow development is difficult because the native tooling is fairly crude - No native context variable (or method) defining your script's current location - No native parallel processing on Windows - Dependency management in projects is messy at best and it's difficult to know which packages are actually getting used - No ability to alias package namespaces - The complexity of the R startup process" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Building GUIs for simulations to be used by non-technical stakeholders I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code, PyCharm 3 6 I expect it to increase Java, Javascript, Python, R, Ruby, C# Ruby 1988 Woman Black/African, Multi-racial Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Research Software Engineer Software developer 2 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T21:58:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Insufficient reference (examples & explanation) for sophistical statistical modelling More than once a day Win but will switch to Linux due to efficiency Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually A sophisticated statistical tool where also support other functions (web driver, data visualization, high volume data handling and analysis, app deployment etc) Efficiency compare to Python & C++ General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Report I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Quantitative algorithmic auto trading & Scheduled report analysis I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis, selenium web driver & scrapping Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Go, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic html with notepad 1984 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Malaysia Financial Services and Activities Owner & Researcher Researcher 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Finance conference Twitter English 2020-12-16T22:12:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Data manipulation - it's so clean and succinct It's not supported as much as python is - particularly in how many APIs have wrappers for it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Allowing users to download custom reports I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 2 4 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Julia, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-16T23:01:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually R community, in person and on Twitter NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 2 7 I expect it to stay the same NA C/C++ NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA NA NA Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Pharma conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-16T23:13:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis, Operations research 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse ease of data analysis Package bloat General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Company GitHub enterprise I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Basic 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Operations research scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-16T23:33:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R BASIC 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-16T23:39:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R C/C++ 1991 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Kenya Health Care and Medicine Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-17T00:20:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The subject skills of package authors Lack of progress bars General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, R Excel 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Transportation Research & Data Manager Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T00:28:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1990 Male Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-17T00:29:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Weaving R code with LaTeX Bad documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Julia, Python, R, SAS, Tableau Java 1993 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor of Mathematics Educator 1 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T00:33:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Geocoding, mapping, etc 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Flexibility in creating visualizations, wide variety of packages Sometimes things I expect to be trivial are difficult and solutions online can be unhelpful. Syntax can feel inconsistent from package to package. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Just knitting HTML files with charts and tables to share in lieu of an Excel file I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Web scraping Anaconda 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Visual Basic 1988 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Utilities Program analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T00:38:43Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The range of visualization options and customization Trying to understand error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week General code I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Science Communication Intern Science outreach 4 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-17T00:43:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually I can leverage open source creation It struggles with speed Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Rweekly Email, PowerPoint slides I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Documentation of work I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, SQL SQL 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Transportation Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T00:49:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Transportation Analytics Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T01:14:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I love the creativity, the low barrier to entry, and the inclusive community. The language has advanced to the point that a lot of free materials online (eg stack exchange) are out of date. This isn’t a problem with R itself but it makes it difficult to communicate with colleagues who insist on using proprietary software. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Twitter... I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 4 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Sql R 1992 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Student 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-17T01:45:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse syntax, incredibly well documented best practices and pipelines (s/o to Hadley), and the RStudio IDE (ability to view environment variables). The general perception of R (that python is better, you can't do ML in R, etc). I have 0 complaints about the actual use of R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Github for the package General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, General reporting with in line code for reproducible results I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Interactive tables, Our org mainly uses shiny to curate data from several sources and make it available to non-coders for download and subsequent analysis. I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Tableau, SQL C/C++ 1996 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Biotech Product Engineer Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-17T02:09:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually To have a good data preparation, stats and visualization program at the same time. Some packages seriously interfere with each other, but I would use them in the same chunk of code. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1989 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Research PhD student in plant biology Student 4 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T02:13:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Tidyverse Base R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Twitter I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Java 1991 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T02:21:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1997 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses None More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Development of Algorithms to find red flags in the context of Audit 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), MS Power BI Desktop, Caseware IDEA No Usually It allows to me translate what it is in head into proper code, and I can do this very quickly and efficiently. Still struggle with encoding issues in Windows General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Through another software that we interfaced with R I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Deploy an algorithm I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Tableau, MS Power Query, MS Power BI and DAX S and S-Plus, Pascal 1966 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Manufacturing Data Analytics Expert Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-17T02:46:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidy concept In Windows environment General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1959 Male Asian, Pacific Islander Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Malaysia Natural Resources and Mining Technical Pro Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, PyCon conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-17T03:00:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, R 3 10 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, Python, R, Stata Stata 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Health Care and Medicine Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-17T03:57:16Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Deep learning 3 8 EMACS ESS mode, Matlab, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Broad choice of packages Various quirks - it's an old language, and there are some non-intutitive stuff in-there General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Julia, Matlab Fortran 1970 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Serbia and Montenegro Natural Resources and Mining Scientific Software Developer Software developer 0 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-17T03:57:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Very convenient/easy for data cleaning and analysis Integrations have gotten a lot better, but are still not General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Nigeria Professional and Business Services Capacity building and operations advisor Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T04:31:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually Simple and effective, great community and in-depth paper backing up packages. No GPU support General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Power BI I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Power BI 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Power BI Excel 1975 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Norway Financial Services and Activities Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-17T04:59:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Simple syntax, community help for anything. Encoding problems while on Windows. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R GW Basic 1977 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Greece Research NA Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-17T05:02:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro, Tableau Yes Usually Rmd and shiny make it easy to create interactive analyses Publishing to connect from the ide can be a bit rigid for anything other than a straightforward setup General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Tableau, Visual Studio Code 5 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Visual Basic Basic 1976 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities NA Management 10 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-17T05:34:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Graphics Inconsistent syntax Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to stay the same 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic, Wolfram language FORTRAN 1965 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Health Care and Medicine Health Informatician Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-17T05:49:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually It seems to be able to do anything and I would prefer to learn one language well than several poorly Not knowing the structure of the data a function is expecting Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Rseek Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Reports I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same SQL R 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Natural Resources and Mining Principal Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T08:05:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my PhD studies Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually It is free It has no GUI for credit scoring like SAS do General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic Pascal 1976 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Estonia Financial Services and Activities Head of Credit Risk Modelling Unit Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-17T08:33:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually The R community Figuring out best practices General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SAS 1990 Non binary White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Senior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-17T08:34:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Graduate school statistics courses I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Intuitive syntax and many packages available for sophisticated statistical analysis Doesn’t seem to be gaining as much traction as Python for production applications General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embed results in PowerPoint I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Embedding statistical analysis in application I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning PyCharm 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Java 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Arts and Entertainment Decision Science Consultant Statistician 5 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-17T08:43:08Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job assisting with a project that others had developed in R Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, forestry growth and yield 3 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Visual Basic, TSQL PL/SQL Visual Basic 1969 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining NA Software developer 4 No, not at all NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-17T08:57:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually At this point -- it's very comfortable and quick to do things in R. Also like the community and learning materials that are eons beyond what was available when I started. "The hardest functions for me are stats functions -- it assumes a level of stats knowledge/background that I don't necessarily have, without links to resources that can help explain the concepts/implications in plain language. I'm starting to experiment more with Databricks/Spark/etc. So far I've mostly worked in Python because (a) it is developed by the core Spark team (no lag time after updates) and (b) the community around it is stronger / there are more resources available (tutorials, Stackoverflow, etc.). It's nice to have the R option, but it's easier to work in the dominant language" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Rendered Rmd's (html) attached to Jira tickets / shared via Slack I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Reports to share with stakeholders (clients/internally) I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, PyCharm, Google Colaboratory 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R HTML 1991 female NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Financial Services and Activities Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 30 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-17T09:26:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took a bit of everything above More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually CRAN NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1979 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Switzerland Research NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely UseR conference From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-17T10:08:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The helpful community when I hit a roadblock "When things don't work that ""should,"" like binding together the rows of two tibbles that are ostensibly full of numbers, but secretly they have different data types. That is especially relevant with the different date formats." Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 2 3 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R Excel 1995 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education Graduate Assistant Instructor Student 0 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-17T10:22:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course working in Bioinformatics Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research NA Software developer NA No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-17T10:58:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io, MySQL Yes Usually Straightforward & logical approach to data analysis Learning curve when learning the quirks of new/unfamiliar packages Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Not just research papers - also professional reports I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Stata, SQL R 1996 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Professional and Business Services Associate/Analyst Researcher 2 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-17T11:01:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Occasionally I like how universal R is The overwhelming number of packages. If I'm looking for a package to run a very specific task, I either get too many options that are hard to customize or just a few that sort of do what I want. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month end of project summary documents I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Package development I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R R 1987 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research Project Manager and developer Researcher 5 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-17T11:38:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually elegant, intuitive, wide range of use challenging to newcomers General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, academic papers not submitted for publication I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Text processing Microsoft Excel, Azure Data Studio 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R Excel 1997 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-17T12:04:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually the ability to use it for all my work. i.e. the completely developed sense of the reproducible data life cycle. I have a very shallow statistics background. Sometimes the modelling emphasis feels intimidating and inaccessible. I know I have to jump in deeper but it's not very inviting. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau BASIC 1967 MALE White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA Educator 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-17T12:41:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Clear, easy-to-understand syntax for data cleaning Hosting & sharing and a Shiny app is complex (when the data is not publicly shareable) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R4DS Slack Channel (currently most helpful resource) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, I haven't found a simple solution yet (shinapps.io is not approved for my work use) ) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, Conda 3 6 I expect it to increase R R 1981 Male South Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Marketing Research Director, Research & Development Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-17T14:26:15Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1983 m White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Administration NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T14:33:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2004 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually The community So much to learn Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, RSeek Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, Tableau Basic 1967 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 8 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup R4ds Slack English 2020-12-17T14:40:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually Lots of help online Not all packages have good documentation. Errors due to updates in R and/or in a package. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1985 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T14:41:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the feeling of power - nothing is impossible, nothing! :) the breakneck speed of open source - hard to keep pace with General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, data acquisition (APIs) Conda, R 2 7 I expect it to stay the same SQL Pascal 1976 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Financial Services and Activities Consultant Consultant or Advisor NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-17T14:45:17Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) optional for work - need for special requests to compare to Stata Employer does not update R often and previous scripts are not able to re-run due to not updated packages... Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 3 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Robust variance estimate and Meta-analysis packages keeping up with the versions and updates Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Stata and Access Basic and msDos 1965 Female Middle Eastern Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Research Associate Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really Local or regional R meetup Wolfgang Viechtbauer's introduction to R course English 2020-12-17T15:55:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Functional programming Poor documentation on base R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research NA Researcher 2 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-17T16:08:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Rarely The package ecosystem It's slow (compared e.g. to Julia) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, SPSS Visual Basic 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Education Associate Professor Statistician 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-17T16:16:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually sheer number of off-the-shelf solutions to problems Rmarkdown -> Latex for making pdfs. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, My work team has some smart folk General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R pearl 1974 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Statistical Research Associate Statistician 5 No, not really Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-17T17:00:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually collective wisdom of the whole R community having to choose between good tools and better ones that constantly come up General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1959 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) team manager Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-17T17:02:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Avoid using packages with too many dependencies More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Rarely Interoperability with other languages tidyverse or -verse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Look to the documentation CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Storing user input I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week API's Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 5 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R, Rust C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-17T17:48:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 4 9 RStudio Connect Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda 2 5 I expect it to stay the same R NA 1990 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Phd Student Researcher 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-17T17:53:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually My analysis can breathe only in R Error messeges Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Python 1990 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Biostatistician Statistician 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T17:55:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Data munging Spatial analyses--not powerful enough yet General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Ruby 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Professional and Business Services Business Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-17T19:22:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 9 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually The combination of 'breadth' (coverage of analytical/data science operations) and 'depth' (comprehensiveness of packages / tools for any given task) its memory intensiveness (active memory demands) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, package documentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, knitting R Markdown documents for statistical analysis reports I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, simulation exercises (for teaching/training) I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R SPSS 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Statistician Statistician 3 Yes, somewhat NA R-bloggers English 2020-12-17T20:23:08Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Libraries Debugging in RMarkdown General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1995 Female Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Mexico Not Employed Student Student 1 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-17T20:27:06Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA NA NA five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, Python, R, Swift C/C++ 1973 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-17T21:23:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Debugging Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Financial analysis Conda, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R, C# Fortran NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities NA Software developer NA No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-17T22:04:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually Rstudio-Tidyverse. good for data manipulation. Awesome for plotting(ggplot) Wish there were tutorials for common packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Power BI I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1980 Man Brazilian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Oil and Gas Sales strategy and analytics manager Management 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-17T22:12:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Instructors required other software Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Tableau, MPlus, HML7 No Rarely It's free The Hadley Wickham cult of personality General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS TI BASIC 1990 Fluid White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Consultant Researcher 1 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-17T22:15:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Yes Rarely Data.table No 64bit ints Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 2 5 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Quantitative Developer Researcher 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T22:16:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually "Easy to learn, Community" NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS C/C++ 1997 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Indonesia Accommodation and Food Services Market Researcher Researcher 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-17T23:27:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the RStudio development environment Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually visualization and easy syntax low speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Excel, Julia, R C/C++ 1983 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) China Education Associate professor Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T04:11:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Everything just seamlessly works, documentation is great, easy interface to hardware and underlying boilerplate code Not for huge datasets, no dictionary type General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Pycharm 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1981 Male White, Jewish Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Israel Software Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-18T05:18:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 3 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding an appropriate walkthrough More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Data exploring capabilities More robust ways to easily publish content and make data collection online General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Text processing, Medicine Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, R, Ruby, SAS, SPSS C/C++ 1975 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Brazil Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist, MD Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-18T05:36:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Rarely Great community; data.table is probably the best package in its class Warts in the language, lack of control over memory allocations in hot loops General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis R, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Julia, Python, R Visual Basic 1993 NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Quantitative Researcher Researcher NA Yes, somewhat PyCon conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T05:50:54Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to understand syntax NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Fife Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 2000 Male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Germany Research NA Student 2 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-18T06:48:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect Yes Usually Efficiency and versatility Lack of some functionality that is standard in other languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Reports/output in Word I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Learning Anaconda, Conda 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Matlab, Python, R Java NA Male NA NA Australia NA NA Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-18T07:16:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually Rstudio-Tidyverse. good for data manipulation. Awesome for plotting(ggplot) Wish there were tutorials for common packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Power BI I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1980 Man Brazilian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Oil and Gas Sales strategy and analytics manager Management 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-18T07:40:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1990 Grad school I learned Splus, then R in mid-90's I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, SAS, SPSS Yes Usually Graphics visualization Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, SAS, SPSS Pascal 1967 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Research Professor Statistician 20 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-18T11:57:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually Functional programming with SQL syntax (dplyr ;-) Error messages when trying something new General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Excel for financial and HR colleagues I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Pascal 1964 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Information Manager Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-18T12:24:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually The community and development environment as well as the simplicity of CRAN Inconsistency in approach and authors changing their mind about how their packages will work (eg changing function names between versions) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS S 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Head of Data Science Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-18T12:37:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually How much easier data manipulation and viz is compared to other options, especially w/ RStudio Rely heavily on tidyverse packages, which often have breaking changes even in minor/bugfix versions. This breaks production processes fairly often. The benefits of tidyverse are still higher than the cost, but that is a real pain point General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Sports Senior analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T12:52:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It is the shortest path for me to get things done. It has packages for distributed computing on massive clusters and supercomputers. Difficulty of finding the proper or best package for a given processing/analysis task. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 4 I expect it to increase C/C++, R Fortran 1954 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Statistician 2 Yes, definitely UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T12:54:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, Tableau Yes Usually There is no better tool for manipulating and analyzing data. pandas does not come close. The documentation is often aimed towards the advanced R user and examples are often beyond what the new user can understand. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Exporting data to Excel or just copy-pasting visualizations to Word because that's what my stakeholders can handle. I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Vignette documentation and basic PDFs I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau R 1985 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T12:59:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I can achieve rapid results to common data and statistical inquiries I occasionally struggle with deeply nested data navigation, selection, and manipulation Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Technical books and formal guides R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), R markdown reports I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, R, Clojure Basic NA NA NA NA NA Information Technologies NA Management 1 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T13:18:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually It's knowledgeable and supportive community Error. Messages! Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Interactive user-modifiable health economic modeling I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1981 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-18T13:19:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Managing packages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R Python 1990 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Marketing Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-18T13:31:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work, because it was free Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually 30 different ways to do the same thing learning curve for others to learn General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Internal Shiny Server I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS SAS 1982 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-18T14:15:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Documentation has improved over time and great user community to ask questions Upgrading between R versions and having to reinstall packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Shinyapps.io 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Matlab 1988 Female Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Engineering Geologist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T14:33:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS 1983 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Professional and Business Services Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T14:34:40Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, R R NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-18T15:38:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested R is generally harder to grasp, compared to Python. Several competing packages for the same task (mlr vs tidymodels for example, many parallel backend packages), it is hard to select the most suitable one (the paradox of choice) More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Statistical perspective Sometimes it is confusing (compared to Python) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Just learned it recently and I'm exploring it. I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, As a general programming language Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1975 male Middle eastern Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Egypt Telecommunications Technical Specialist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T17:25:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally It's free. It also offers many different features with syntax that's relatively easy to grasp. error messages can be quite obscure, depending on the package. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R, SPSS R 1998 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Research Research Assistant Administration 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-18T17:56:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually The pipe operator Handling json data General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R Scheme 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Research Professor Researcher 2 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T18:37:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Spatial Analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Gedit, Pycharm Yes Usually R community The performance General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Creating tutorials using learnr I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Spatial analysis Anaconda, Conda, JupyterHub, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Pycharm, Spyder 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Matlab, Python, R Python 1983 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ecuador Research NA Researcher 10 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-18T18:44:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually simple to use; community very friendly NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, scraping Anaconda, Conda 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1995 female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Doctoral student Researcher 20 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-18T19:00:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually flexible and extensible It is difficult to get others in my agency on board with scripting language based tools for analysis and visualization Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month I have been taking some video trainings, but do not currently use in my work Anaconda NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic Basic back in middle school circa 1989 1976 m White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) EMS & Trauma Informatics Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-18T20:38:07Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Make my work more transparent, reproducible, and credible, plus the challenge! Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Incredible user help/instruction online reduced barrier to entry for me! Just always more to learn, but that's fun too General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R FORTRAN 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Wildlife Biologist Program Coordinator 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-18T22:02:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Medicine, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally With available packages you can do anything statistical User interface General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Basic NA Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 1 Yes, definitely NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-18T23:43:58Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python C/C++ NA NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Application Architect Software developer NA No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-19T03:13:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Stack Overflow It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, SPSS, JASP Yes Usually it is suited for and achieves a lot for my needs as a psychology student/researcher (no need for software programming etc.) Not the most intuitive language to learn General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS I am just getting started learning programming 1995 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Singapore Not Employed NA Student 0 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-19T08:04:51Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Bioinformatics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), bash, Sublime Text No Occasionally Open and responsive community, Wide variety of available packages Speed, Memory management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom documentation I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics, Bioinformatics Conda, bash 3 7 I expect it to stay the same R, bash, awk Sinclair BASIC 1985 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Estonia Research Senior researcher Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-19T08:59:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Java, R, Visual Basic Java 1996 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Not Employed NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-19T09:00:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R R 1979 NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Korea, South Military NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Facebook English 2020-12-19T12:05:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1987 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Financial Services and Activities Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-19T12:21:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Organizing code I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to decrease Matlab, Python, R R 1987 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate research assistant Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-19T12:46:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Plotting and that the code is so flexible I would prefer more tutorials to understand statistical tests and to interpret them General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 5 9 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R I am just getting started learning programming 1993 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research PhD student Researcher 2 No, not at all NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-19T12:49:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro No Usually powerful syntax to perform data analysis obscure error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation NA 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Python 1980 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Netherlands Research NA Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-19T14:27:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Pipe operator and Rmarkdown Package updating that breaks code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, YouTube Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Report in ppt/html I expect it to stay the same 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, Ruby C/C++ 1977 Male Hispanic/Latinx High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Italy Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-19T15:25:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Reporting, blogging 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Libraries. It makes difficult tasks easy. I wish the production environment was easier to use General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, I don't use script anymore. RMarkdown serves all purpose. I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Web applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1984 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Management Consulting Senior Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-19T16:59:32Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse & tidymodels more complicate syntax than Python, tidymodels not developed enough to replace the plethora of packages for ML. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 5 9 I expect it to increase NA Python 1997 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Italy Not Employed NA Student NA Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-19T17:37:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Required format for my biostatistics homework I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, R, Google sheets R 1997 NA White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Geobiologist Researcher 2 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-19T18:01:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually friendly community, (typically) well-documented, the tidyverse n/a, honestly my favorite programming framework General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R, SPSS Java 1994 nb Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research grad student Researcher 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-19T18:16:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Time Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Clinical trials 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility N/A Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Clinical trials Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, PHP, Python, R, Swift, Tableau Python 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Director Management 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-19T18:25:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely Flexibility NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1979 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Doctor Medical professional 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-19T19:50:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2001 On the job Millenium bug Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, R Shiny for e-learning courses, Game theory, Optimization, Differential equations 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally widely available packages Lack of symbolic tools, I've used all the available tools for this plus a few rarer ones, but Python is better for this, so I tend to use that as the alternative. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Slack I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, I basically write short reports using it in Tufte style I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month creating e-learning apps for training courses I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, bio-economic modelling, economic modelling Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Python, R Pascal 1961 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Solomon Islands International Organization Fisheries economics advisor Economist 1 NA NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-19T20:03:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Usually Free and works Polishing figures for publication General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating teaching notes I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Jupyter Notebooks 3 10 I expect it to stay the same R, Perl Pascal 1980 Male American Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate professor Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-19T20:19:31Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 self teaching during PhD I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 8 Microsoft Excel No Usually Ggplot If there isn't a tutorial for how to do the thing you need, R's own docs are most of the time not helpful (or maybe they are, for someone with an MSc in Maths) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, the institute's bio-IT core facility Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R C/C++ 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research postdoc Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-20T00:14:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Tableau Yes Occasionally it is very intuitive to learn NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Excel 1993 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Financial Services and Activities Credit Risk Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-20T00:29:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Flexibility of solutions and community support Unharmonised base R and tidyverse Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Misc I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Consultant Consultant or Advisor 10 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-20T00:38:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse Vast number of packages, hard to find specific capabilities General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase NA FORTRAN 1950 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Retired Adjunct Senior Statistician Retired 10 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-20T05:18:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Cloud Yes Usually The versatility Decoding the errors Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, R, Google Collab 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1989 Female Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Kenya Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) IT officer Management 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-20T05:27:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease to study datasets interactively That I still have to use google and stackoverflow so often General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Cresting models that run on internal servers I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1953 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Uruguay Retired NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-20T05:37:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Rstudio IDE and the tidyverse especially visualization and data wrangling I love everything about R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Web scraping, general programming Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, R Excel 1990 Male Black/African Some college or university, no college degree France Education Teacher Consultant or Advisor 0 I'm not sure NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-20T07:46:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tiddlywiki Yes Usually Packages management Lack of programming oriented community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Medicine, Writing short utilities NA 3 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1984 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Health Care and Medicine NA Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-20T09:13:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, pycharm NA NA I expect it to increase R wolfram mathematica NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA NA NA NA NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-20T09:22:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, bioinformatics 4 8 NA Yes Usually magrittr pipe No try-except syntax. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, creating html reports I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1992 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland bioinformatics bioinformatician Data scientist or analyst 30 Neutral UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-20T09:39:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1983 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Transportation Operations Analytics Specialist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2020-12-20T09:56:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Tools that go beyond excel, and flexibility to address multiple data problems Not enough people in government (state of Ohio) use R, so I cannot collaborate with others in an R-based workflow or ask questions to specific problems. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating work products (word docs) I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Performance Analyst I Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA youtube rstudio::conf2019 English 2020-12-20T10:58:53Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis, spatial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R C/C++ 1986 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Education Assistant Professor Researcher 0 No, not at all NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-20T12:08:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to use Error messages are difficult to interpret General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Text processing R 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Python 1987 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-20T12:14:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Back in 2009, the documentation was very sparse. Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Financial analysis 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Powerful analysis, modeling, and graphic tools. Quick scripting. R does not scale well for larger software engineering projects. It's not robust. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating internal reports (in HTML) I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation NA 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R, Bash, SQL Visual Basic 1954 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Senior Quant Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Finance conference RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-20T12:22:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually A lot of awesome packages Ugly code, lack of language consistency between different packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics, Medicine Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1998 Male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Russia Research Bioinformatician Data scientist or analyst 3 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-20T12:26:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Occasionally Good docs and easy syntax Complex move to production General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SAS, Tableau, Power BI (Power Query + DAX) C/C++ 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Analytics Manager / Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Workplace English 2020-12-20T13:10:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R GW BASIC 1980 male mixed Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Information Technologies NA Software developer 1 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-20T13:32:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Jupyter Notebooks 1 7 I expect it to decrease Tableau R 1992 Cis male South Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-20T13:46:56Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Python 1990 male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Medical professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-20T13:53:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS SPSS 1994 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) COVID-19 Case Investigator and Contact Tracer Public Health - Communicable Disease Tracing 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-20T13:57:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Spatial analysis Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 10 I expect it to increase R R 1992 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Freshwater Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-20T14:27:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Object oriented programming (not something you learn in epidemiology classes) Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 3 6 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually It’s free It’s cranky. The errors are borderline nebulous at times. It can be very difficult to debug. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, OHDSI Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Collaborating with other researchers I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Tableau, Dialects of SQL Excel NA Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Associate Director Researcher 5 No, not at all Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-20T14:36:45Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 3 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Broad application Finding solutions online can be difficult for a beginner, because users will often provide more complex coding to answer a question I have General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1987 female White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine physician Medical professional 5 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-20T16:33:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The extensive R library NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Web Scrapping Anaconda 2 2 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Javascript, R, SAS, Visual Basic Java 1991 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-20T17:48:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I am learning other computer science skills by using R. Not sure General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month personal use; mostly playing Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 7 I expect it to decrease Excel, R Excel 1975 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America nonprofit (social service) program evaluation Consultant Data scientist or analyst 0 I'm not sure Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-20T18:12:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 NA Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, survey reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same NA Matlab 1991 female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-20T18:43:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually The tidyverse ecosystem and the community The occasional breaking changes (lack of backward compatibility) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SQL Pascal 1979 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-20T19:04:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Coursera, Online tutorials, Twitter posts and links, and RStudio videos I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Impressive statistical and viz capabilities, ease of creating web apps and an awesome community! Nothing really. I'm always happy to use R! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Julia, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1971 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-20T20:54:58Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, textbook or old R notebooks General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 2000 genderqueer/agender White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America student/research and education student AND City Year Americorps member Student 2 No, not at all NA Email from Data Sciences professor English 2020-12-21T02:29:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Fast results and merging text, code and graphs in one document. When I cannot figure out the errors Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Pascal 1979 Woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Professor Educator 1 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-21T09:25:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Tableau Python 1998 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Austria Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) scientific assistent Student 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-21T09:35:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 EMACS ESS mode, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect No Usually Flexibility, efficient vectorized operations inconsistent function API (mostly in base), memory-inefficiency without referential semantics by default Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day creating custom PDF documents (not using pagedown, bookdown, or pkgdown) I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling NA 5 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R BASIC 1971 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services CTO, Research Analyst Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-21T10:06:37Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Reproducible report-writing in rmarkdown 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Once you get the hang of it, it's fun and powerful. It's a bit arcane. Hard to figure out how to set things up the best. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Data Camp class materials community.rstudio.com, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, GIS Analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic, M, Dax (PowerBI) Visual Basic 1965 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) GIS Analyst Data scientist or analyst 10 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-21T10:31:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA Figuring out where I went wrong General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Python 1996 Male NA One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Health Care and Medicine Medical coordinator Administration 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-21T11:27:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SQL, AKS Yes Usually R community; Easy to make useful things ggplot2, Rmarkdown Package/Deps maintenance with collaborators across multiple projects and envs General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, insurance risk modeling applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R C/C++ 1980 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Insurance Director - Risk Software developer 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-21T11:58:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually At this point my fluency is the best part, but I love how easy it is to wrangle wild data and the rich open source package environment Base r error messages. Complex custom data type General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Reports to clients in MS Word format I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Create word docs for report skeleton I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 10 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R R 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Research Scientist Researcher 1 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-21T15:26:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually reproducible products managing working directories General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, In-house reports I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month data cleaning I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R FORTRAN 1966 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining WIldlife Biologist Researcher 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-21T15:45:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis, GIS 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I can find any help I need for any syntax or R function online. Since it is opensource and free it makes it very easy for me to find solutions and help. I am a researcher that collaborates with scientists and professionals in LMIC's (I am US based), so sharing code and analysis with collaborators is easy and possible. I am not a computer scientist, so when it comes to properly installing packages, there are sometimes issues with file paths and installation that are very time consuming to work through. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week creating easily shareable html files and word docs to share graphics and tables with collaborators I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Java 1996 woman White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Graduate Research Assistant Student 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-21T15:50:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It is very human readable and fairly intuitive. It is limited in its capabilities, especially compared to a language such as Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Java, Python, R Python 2003 Male White Less than a high school diploma United States of America Research High School Junior Student 2 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-21T17:00:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Qgis Yes Usually I would like to use a visualization and manipulate packages Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, R Excel 1988 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Not Employed Environmental engineering Data scientist or analyst 0 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-21T18:31:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Nvim-R No Usually Its homoiconicity Its type system(s) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML codebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Julia, Python, R Java 1994 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Senior Data Associate Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-21T18:34:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Blogdown Yes Usually Versatility. I can use R for everything from survey analysis to map making to website construction the occasional limitation of working with people who don't use it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables, we use shiny to host public archives of polling data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Stata Excel 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research research fellow Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-21T21:35:32Z None On the job working with colleagues who know R R is required for my work Fixing buggy code Python Decoding R's error messages NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Genomics, Clinical trials Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, Python, R Javascript 1966 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Health Care and Medicine Software goto guy Software developer 0 No, not at all NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-21T22:09:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 7 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's syntax simplicity and flexibility Too many package, confuse to choose the suite one. Should CRAN explicitly under what condition the package works best General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase """Five""" Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 7 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1992 NA Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-21T22:38:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), stata Yes Usually customizable , low level, makes me think and focus on structure and quality lots of packages, a bit hard to manage, but its ok, im still learning and some consolidation of packages helps Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, colaboratory 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, SAS BASIC, FORTRAN (im old/middle aged) 1979 nonbinary mixed Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Estonia Utilities engineer Student 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference, PyCon conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-22T09:15:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Occasionally The community the C interface Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help, The man pages and vignettes Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, creating vignettes I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Julia, Python, R BASIC and PASCAL 1974 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Austria Education Senior Scientist Researcher NA Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-22T09:18:25Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 2 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R I am just getting started learning programming 1991 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research Researcher Researcher 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-22T09:28:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Yes Usually You can do almost anything. Not a lot of French translation. Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shiny I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1986 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Slack Grrr, french user R English 2020-12-22T10:59:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Communauty. No normalisation between packages Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase PHP, Python, R Basic 1959 male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) France Health Care and Medicine MD Medical professional 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-22T11:02:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 3 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Slack English 2020-12-22T12:06:33Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) learning tidyverse and dyplyr's special syntax & using functional programming More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually "it is ""data"" language and it has many good libraries: specially tidyverse" i think it is still weak in areas such machine learning and neural networks and NLP General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ NA NA Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Not Employed NA Student 5 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-22T12:24:37Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Mathematica Yes Usually Speed, Breadth of statistical analysis coverage, Community support Some error messages are really cryptic General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, SPSS, Wolfram Language Matlab 1973 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Senior Application Developer Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-22T13:29:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Package manager. Tidyverse. Obscure errors, native syntax. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Optimisation. General programming. Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Python, R Java 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) South Africa Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Head of Data Science Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-22T14:41:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job Wanted a statistical package that was freely available Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, numerical risk assessment 3 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Abundance of statistical packages When I get a newer version of R having to update all the packages and double-checking that all of the code works properly still. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views Embed results in presentations I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 2 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R Fortran NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing NA Statistician NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-22T14:47:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Required by my graduate studies Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau R 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-22T14:53:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, SAS Yes Usually How easy it is to code on the fly Error message are hard to understand General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1988 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Cardiologist Medical professional 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-22T14:59:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Easy syntax when scripting Actual programming (non-standard evaluation, S3/S4/R6 or other classes...) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Health Care and Medicine Data science lead Management 50 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-22T15:39:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses NA Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 6 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SQL SQL NA NA NA NA NA Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-22T15:57:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 6 RStudio Server Yes Usually tidyverse NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Scala C/C++ 1982 male White Some college or university, no college degree Sweden Information Technologies data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-22T15:59:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually I think the R Community is awesome and really supportive Data being loaded in memory - I wish I didn't have to worry about RAM requirements General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 NA Excel, Python, R R 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Arts and Entertainment Director, Quantitative Analysis Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-22T16:08:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally How helpful and friendly the R community is Base R syntax Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1987 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Information Technologies Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-22T16:11:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 nvim-R Yes Occasionally interesting language, environments, NSE .... meaning of all parameters of function, example rbinom() Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, RTFM Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, github search Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R FORTRAN 1955 m White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies analyst Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup slack English 2020-12-22T16:43:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took I don't remember More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Tidyverse and rmarkdown and ultra low the time to market for new tools Date data type struggles. Library coherency when working as a team. Scheduling issues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Pdf reports I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R BASIC 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Financial Services and Activities Head of Data Science Management 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-22T17:22:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Fast prototyping Object system General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Web scraping Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-22T19:18:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I like the ease of understanding the syntax and the quality of the visualizations (ggplot2 renders high quality images). It can be slower than Python to do machine learning calculations. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, LinkedIn I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1992 female Black/African, White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Manufacturing Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-22T20:59:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Great tools for packaging data analysis NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Conda, R, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R R 1994 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Software development engineer Software developer 10 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Rladies meetup English 2020-12-22T22:16:35Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 2 10 Microsoft Excel, SPSS No Never Graphics Syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SPSS Excel 1973 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Nepal Education Lecturer Statistician 36 Yes, definitely UseR conference Email English 2020-12-23T02:28:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to use, Lots of tools, great documentation No free method to host Shiny apps on Windows. Docker is too complicated for me. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating HTML based reports circulated by Email & Sharepoint I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, Javascript, R, Visual Basic, SQL C/C++ 1990 Male Indian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Sri Lanka Manufacturing Business Improvement Manager Process Improvement 0 Yes, somewhat NA R Weekly Blog English 2020-12-23T03:50:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of use Debug (should be more like Matlab) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Conda 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Portugal Pharmaceutical PhD Student Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-23T04:23:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually simplicity weirdness General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic Java 1995 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Research PhD student Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference slack English 2020-12-23T04:44:05Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning how to ask for help or search for answers using correct tetms Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Everything: Tidyverse, Rmatkdown, process, outputs, community Not durr General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1975 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Advisor Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-23T04:54:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1988 NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Scientific programmer Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely NA slack grrr (French R network) English 2020-12-23T05:23:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Having a single tool from DB queries to dataviz shiny apps Difficulties to integrate R / Rstudio with our IT infrastructure General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Visual Basic 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Biodiversity datascientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup NA English 2020-12-23T08:02:52Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The ability to keep working on something, and keep making it better. With Excel, all the steps I'd taken before were lost, and if I got lost in an analysis or started to worry I'd gotten something wrong, or thought of a better way to approach the question, I'd just have to start again. The visualisations are marvellous too. I never thought I'd be able to make thematic maps, and then I learnt tmap. Someone online has always had the problem I'm having before, also. Always feeling like I'm only at the tip of the iceberg. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, I tried to use it to create my dissertation. I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Not Employed NA None NA Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-23T08:12:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Proteomics 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually There's a solution to all things data, and by using opinionated packages (such as tidyverse) and compatible companions I can easily turn my abstract thoughts into concrete code. It cannot run outside of an R console. This isn't a problem for one-time scripts such as analyses, but I would love to be able to create standalone shiny or command line applications that one could run with a much more minimal application than a full blown R environment. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1998 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Netherlands Research Bio-informatician Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not at all NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-23T09:26:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) Yes Usually Deploying to RStudio Connect Package versions management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Utilities Project manager Administration 100 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-23T10:57:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually Readability & ease of disseminating code to coworkers and helping those who don't know R understand what the code says. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Conda, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 5 I expect it to increase R, SPSS, Tableau SPSS 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-23T11:26:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Shiny would be nice to be able to pilot robots General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, creating static html file for website I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1980 male Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Manufacturing Digital Supply Chain and Global S&OP Leader Management 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2020-12-23T17:42:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Power BI Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau, DAX Excel 1980 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-23T18:35:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Outdated libraries and libraries no longer being maintained More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python Yes Usually It's easy to read without needing lengthy comments Nothing that I'm aware of General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA R 1 1 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1961 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Facebook English 2020-12-23T19:07:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Occasionally You can do a lot in a few lines of intuitive code (with the help of high quality CRAN packages). NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month teaching I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R R 1981 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Education Associate professor Educator 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-23T21:06:47Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA No idea General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1992 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Vietnam Financial Services and Activities NA Researcher 2 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-23T21:48:01Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 3 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Genomics Conda 2 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SLURM and related cluster management tools C/C++ NA Female Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Fellow Researcher NA No, not at all NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-23T22:01:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually community and how it changed for better since 2008 number of new things to learn :-) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RMarkdown I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Fortran NA male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T03:33:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R Maple 1993 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Health Care and Medicine Biostatistician Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup French slack English 2020-12-24T06:36:55Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 3 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Flexibility Problems to create stand-alone apps General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors unfortunately, I have nothing to share yet :( I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SPSS SPSS 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ukraine Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Data Engineer Data scientist or analyst 4 I'm not sure NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-24T08:10:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 At the college. It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually Fast -- Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Turkey Financial Services and Activities Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T08:12:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely Fast Updates sometimes doesnt work in older package Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1977 F Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Indonesia Health Care and Medicine NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:15:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Data scraping 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Tableau Yes Usually The flexibility to figure out exactly what I need to know. I’m a psychologist who does a lot of text analysis and industry standard tools (SAS, SPSS) shit their pants on character/string variables. R handles them like a pro and I can teach my undergrads how to use it with a pretty intuitive GUI. Unpopular opinion: I hate the tidyverse. Like maybe if I learned how to use tidy in the first place then I’d be better about it, but it’s not as easy to see HOW things are working as base imho General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Java, R, SPSS, Tableau SPSS 1994 Cis-man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Arts and Entertainment UX Researcher Researcher 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:16:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Matlab, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Julia Yes Usually The syntax is easy and data frames are native to the language I miss Python-style list comprehensions (sapply is an ok replacement though) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Visualization, Text processing Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, Matlab, Python, R R 1999 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Austria Research Student Assistant Statistician 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:17:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to visualize data nicely Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually easy to manipulate large datasets error messages not always clear General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 2 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Bash R 1994 female Arab/Middle-eastern Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Research PhD student Researcher NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:19:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community, plus it’s easier for people who don’t consider themselves “programmers” I got nothing. It can be hard to use at work sometimes when others don’t use it but that’s not Rs fault General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Often export to Excel/csv for others to use I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 2 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Excel 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Teaching + general business analytics jobs Temporary contractor Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:19:35Z None Through an online course or courses (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I want to do statistical analyses Statistical analysis Microsoft Excel, SPSS Just getting started NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel Excel 1989 NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Research Research Scholar Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:21:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA Troubleshooting takes time General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Female Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Postdoc/research fellow Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:24:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Endless possibilities Looking for help - formulating accurate queries in English (non-native) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, cranberries Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Pascal 1990 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Research post-doc Researcher 0 Neutral NA Facebook English 2020-12-24T08:24:40Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself, Twitter and Slack It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase “Five” Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis JupyterLab 3.0 3 6 I expect it to increase Python, R, SAS R 1988 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Japan Research NA Researcher 2 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:24:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Powerful tools for statistical analyses and modeling R syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1982 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Indonesia Research Researcher Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:24:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R, Visual Basic C/C++ NA NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Ireland Manufacturing NA Engineer 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:25:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Tidyverse, packages, academic flavour It’s not a high performance language, slower growth in that direction. I’m afraid at some point I will have to switch to Python or Julia General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Connect 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Turbo Pascal 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland Information Technologies Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T08:25:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually the community is very welcoming! error messages are difficult to understand; documentation hard to follow to learn about functions and arguments General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1984 female Hispanic/Latina (the term latinx is incomprehensible to Spanish speaker without some their understanding of English) Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Researcher 1 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:25:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I enjoy the helpful and collaborative community of learners! This community is constantly imagining new packages for relevant application and supporting others in their quest to become better at what they do! The R community is unrivaled! I really have nothing negative to say about R. It has been a dream experience to learn R, as I transitioned from daily STATA use. I cannot effectively convey how much more efficient and powerful I feel when doing my work now! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau STATA, if that counts! 1989 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:27:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Occasionally EDA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1972 Male White JD United States of America Research Assistant Director Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:30:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The number and breadth of libraries/packages and ease of installation. The objects created by some standard functions still mystify me. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, FORTRAN, IDL FORTRAN 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:31:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took API based deployment when compared with python Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually Easy to learn for people coming from non coding background. Specifically I can focus on outcomes than coding.. Integration with other IT applications is not as easy as compared to python. Atleast in my understanding General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo tableau I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month very very rarely used only when I need to demo/explain code I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, For some POCs. But I find tableau better I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Server, Tableau 2 4 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1986 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Information Technologies Senior Datascientist Data scientist or analyst 10 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T08:32:19Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Uni It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Financial analysis Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to increase Julia C/C++ 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Financial Services and Activities Quantitative analyst Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T08:33:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually community, clarity of vision around tidyverse "its perception as a ""lesser"" language" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating pass-through R packages using reticulate Conda 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R Applesoft Basic 1971 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Manufacturing Distinguished Technical Expert Researcher 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:34:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually The community is very helpful Trying to understand errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel 1989 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Kenya Transportation Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:35:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested getting data into R Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually easy and 'natural' language for data wrangling (dplyr) and graphics (ggplot2) inconsistencies (in parameter naming, code behaviour, etc) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Turbo Pascal 1971 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Research Scientist Researcher 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-24T08:36:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Data.tables String manipulation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1990 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Research associate Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:36:22Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses give up old habits (e.g. using Excel for data storage) More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, reports & apps 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Occasionally Native support for NAs & CRAN (i.e. a very clean dependency management system) NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, ?function Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Twitter I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, static html reports I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, interactive html reports I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, Python, R R 1977 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Environment Director Data Science Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:37:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Simple data manipulation and efficiency Advance functions like animations or interactive dashboards might be unstable. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R Visual Basic 1984 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Mexico Consultant Markets and Strategies Financial professional 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T08:37:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually I can do everything easily I have had issues installing packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Whatsapp I expect it to increase Three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Server 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1969 Female White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Financial Services and Activities Senior Manager Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:38:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Environment of R Studio is easy to navigate, the online community is incredibly helpful, and of course the tidyverse NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 5 I expect it to increase R R 1998 Female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Cognitive Science PhD Student Student 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:40:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Data visualisation Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud No Usually Quick to get a piece of code working, in a basic way Extensive time needs to be invested to get good visualisations using ggplot as the array of options is so vast and there are multiple ways of doing similar things. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month running code chunks in an easy manner I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R ZX Spectrum BASIC 1971 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Education Head of Mathematics Educator 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:41:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses fighting copy-paste syndrome and actually understanding what I am doing. Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually reproducibility my still limited *understanding* of key tools General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, knitting R scripts to document an analysis I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None C/C++ 1979 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Academia: teaching and research (STEM) Assistant Professor Academic 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:41:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1991 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral Associate Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:43:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Visualization 5 7 RStudio Connect, Shiny Server Yes Usually Open source Case sensitive Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Go, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Excel 1981 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:46:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Power BI Yes Usually Stat orientation Building applications that scale easily General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1990 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Professional and Business Services Consultant Consultant or Advisor 10 Neutral RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T08:47:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 nothing for the moment I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is It is simpe to learn and have applications in many branches like Biology and genomics wanting to do something and not have the way we do it, I think R may be more practical when it is available for others languages like french. We struggle really by the english statements and languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1999 NA Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Not Employed NA Student NA I'm not sure UseR conference Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:49:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually Data vis Still more comfortable in SAS General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SAS 1983 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Director, Biostatistics Statistician 5 Yes, somewhat R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:51:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Community of support NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Symbolic Mathematics Jupyter Notebooks, SageMath 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic Java 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T08:55:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There are a large number of packages useful for social sciences Programming and automation is very poor compared to Python. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1978 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Research Analyst Market research 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:00:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel No Occasionally The flexibility is gives you! Learning to layer functions and know long when to use the correct ones to get the answer you need General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel NA NA NA NA NA Research NA Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:07:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Code makes analyses explicit, reproducible, shareable. Error messages can be unclear. Keeping up with the changing ‘right’ way to do things. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating non-notebook HTML reports for research group meetings. I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1984 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral Fellow Researcher 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:07:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Open source and reproducible Uninformative error codes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Python 1995 Cis woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Education Graduate student Student 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:07:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 9 Matlab, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Once you gain trust with a couple of tools, your workflows become more and more efficient Using custom classes and importing functions from other modules is not as straightforward as in Python (as far as I'm concerned) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, Python, R R 1999 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Research NA Student 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:14:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Vscode No Usually Interactivity, r markdown, variety of r packages, mental model of data manipulation in the tidyverse (dplyr, tidyr,..), the community (rladies, tidytuesday) Parts of working with Rstudio (git, navigation, look and feel, customization options still lacking...especially when compared to vscode), generally the reliance on rstudio - I love rstudio but it'd be good to have more choices ( vscode is making rapid improvements though :)) , r environment management (renv is not good enough yet in comparison to python virtual environments), that there is no easy way to test code outside package development General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Backend development, only rarely for data stuff Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, Node.js R 1991 Non-binary White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Education NA Software developer 20 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:19:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Started MS Data Analytics program at Saint Louis University I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect Yes Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None R 1990 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Manufacturing Procurement Analyst Consultant or Advisor 1 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:21:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Extensive online community Some packages are poorly documented Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Conda 4 8 I plan to stop using it C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1985 NA NA Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) NA Health Care and Medicine NA Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:23:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Simple to learn and powerful Package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1995 W White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Health Care and Medicine NA NA NA NA NA Facebook English 2020-12-24T09:26:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Matlab R 1994 NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research NA Researcher NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:26:36Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Using R's documentation Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic, SQL R 1981 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Panama Financial Services and Activities NA Management 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:33:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau, Power BI Yes Usually The consistency of syntax within the Tidyverse packages and especially the pipe! That it's not as well accepted/universally used as Python, particularly in ML. Python is eating the (data) world. "General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, The ""docs""" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, GitLab I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Tableau, Spyder 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau STATA do files! 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T09:41:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Plotting Non intuitive Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, Matlab, R Excel 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Plant Pathologist Researcher NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:45:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There is a package for everything. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, creating word docs for custom reports I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Julia, R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1976 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Hungary Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:45:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally La polyvalence de R NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R SPSS 1988 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Research NA Statistician 150 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference sclack community English 2020-12-24T09:46:33Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Open source, good documentation Terror messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Documentation for work html I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1995 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Research Student Assistant Student 3 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T09:50:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Occasionally Ease of use, simple installation, broad documentation, RStudio Processing large datasets can be a bit slow and annoying General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week HTML reports I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Tableau, Visual Basic Matlab 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Insurance Senior Analyst Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:52:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses How quickly inactivity tends to erase my progress Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The satisfaction of figuring out ways to solve problems Being alone: I'm the only one in my team using R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Youtube screencasts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating reports exported to Word I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Research PhD student Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-24T09:58:30Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same NA Excel 1994 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research NA Student 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T10:04:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Solving the puzzle Syntax Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Tableau Python 1992 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Health Care and Medicine PhD Researcher 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-24T10:09:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Ease of language Aliigning versions with other analysts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Conda 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R, SAS, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Manager of Data Science Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-24T10:09:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Help documentation is usually very clear NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS R 1997 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T10:09:22Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Downloading and installing the software Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1995 Man Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Indonesia NA NA NA NA NA NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T10:13:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Too many packages, each with its own syntax resulted in confusing, inconsistent code Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SQL server ( machine learning services) No Usually Tidyverse syntax is much more readable than Python code. Built specifically for data work, there is usually a function for anything I need. I am used to work with enterprise software, SQL server, SAS, things that run on a server. I usually run R on my own machine. I know R server exists but am not familiar with it, so maybe it can replicate the experience of working with a powerful server where the data is stored General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning NA 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS R 1988 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Information Technologies Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-24T10:28:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Master's degree program It was part of a course I took Learning to think in code - logic and syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), STATA Yes Usually More dynamic and versatile than other traditional stats programs Working in a company where most others use STATA and having to defend my usage of R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Reddit General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Slack I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Reports in MS Word I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Web scraping Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic, STATA R 1992 Non-Binary Asian, Black/African, White, Native American Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Public Policy Senior Data & Policy Specialist Data scientist & consultant 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T10:36:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally The online communities - most people are helpful Some members of the online community can be rude and disparaging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1975 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T10:51:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It’s much more like writing than other programming languages I attempted. The multiple ways of indexing into data structures make it easier to find a way to express what you want. The excellent packages and community make it very easy to find out how to do things. 1. The base statistics functions are surprisingly hard to use, after getting used to recently developed packages. (I think tidymodels probably fixes this, but haven’t tried it out yet). 2. Figuring out which package I should use when there are several similar-sounding options costs a lot of time. (This is particularly acute with geospatial analysis, but has also given me trouble with eg quanteda vs tidytext, and ggplot2 extensions like ggforce vs ggeasy). Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1990 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Medical Writer Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference Twitter English 2020-12-24T11:11:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase """five"".*" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Java NA NA Asian NA Taiwan Education Research assistant NA NA No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T11:21:07Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Like a GIS software 5 10 NA Yes Occasionally A easy way to do statistical analysis and is free Some problems in pc´s endurance community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis NA 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1994 Man Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Ecuador Research NA Researcher 1 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-24T11:42:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities start using pipe and dplyr functions effectively More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually simple to start; IDE; Rmd to generate html slow with big data General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts html generated through Rmd I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic pascal 1981 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Insurance Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T11:43:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Tidyverse, packages, academic flavour It’s not a high performance language, slower growth in that direction. I’m afraid at some point I will have to switch to Python or Julia General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Connect 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Turbo Pascal 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland Information Technologies Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T11:44:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1971 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing People data scientist Statistician 100 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-24T12:11:36Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It allows to automate operations and save time; sharing code and using rMarkdown facilitates reproducibility in research The documentation of many packages lacks comprehensive instructions and features only a few basic examples (tidyverse is a happy exception). This makes it difficult and time-consuming for beginners and intermediate users to learn them. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating automatically generated report to email to colleagues I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1988 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research PhD Student Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T12:30:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Power BI Yes Usually Stat orientation Building applications that scale easily General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1990 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Professional and Business Services Consultant Consultant or Advisor 10 Neutral RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T13:19:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The feeling when you get complicated code to actually run The amount of time it takes to learn how to google what you need General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, github page to show works in progress I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1991 woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-24T13:41:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually "The fact that it offers many possibilities and can easily be used for many different applications (eg. creating interactive maps, shiny applications, RMarkdown documents, dashboards etc.) apart from the ""classical"" applications such as statistical analysis." I find the syntax quite hard to remember so I have to look up stuff a lot more frequently compared to other languages I use. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1996 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Greece Information Technologies NA Student 11 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T14:33:45Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Group of colleagues and I started working through the Data Carpentries' Social Sciences lesson, which included an introduction to R. This was not an official course - we just read through the teaching materials ourselves together. I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It makes certain data cleaning tasks a lot easier. Also, now that I'm being good and saving my code, it makes rerunning commands 1000 times easier! Very hard to learn, especially because of the specialized terminology, which can be very confusing. This really comes into play when I go to search for how to do something, but then I don't really understand the instructions based on the terminology. A lot of instructions seem to assume that the users are experienced R users. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Stata Excel 1984 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Librarian Librarian 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T15:07:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Geometry analysis (sf/rgeos/leaflet packages) 5 10 Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community support That most people automatically gravitate to python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Construction Air Quality Engineer Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T15:18:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Shinyapps.io, Github I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R, SAS C/C++ 1985 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T15:53:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Swirl I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The focus on intuitive business user ex Vectorization and error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Julia 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, R R 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Senior Quantitative Analyst Financial professional 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T17:43:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The RStudio interface and R Markdown It can be a challenge to make sure you haven't made a silent mistake (no error/warning, but R has done something to your data you didn't expect) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating analysis documentation with knitr I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Bash Bash 1993 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Postdoctoral fellow Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-24T18:03:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), SAS, Shiny Server, SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually Easy to follow Rdocumentation. Friendly community who is always supportive. Too many developments General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, SAS 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS, SPSS C/C++ 1990 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Student Student 600 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-24T18:05:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Tidyverse is a super intuitive, much more than languages such as python Old base R code has bugs with Tidyverse many times General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 3 I expect it to increase Python, R Java 2001 Male Asian High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) United States of America Education Student Student 10 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T18:22:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually ability to quickly explore and get first insights, easilly setup inconsistencies between packages, sometimes too many ways to do same thing, less respect than python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, powerpoint, confluence I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R turbo pascal 1982 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Slovakia Information Technologies data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-24T18:56:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities using R in analysing Arabic text Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SPSS SPSS 1991 F White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Education NA Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T19:52:17Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Visualization R error messages and r shiny app General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R Excel NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-24T20:08:06Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely Open-Source model leading to continuous improvements Inconsistent/unpredictable handling of NA values between base functions. (Runner-up, over-reliance on packages such as dplyr makes it feel like the language is forking when searching for solutions to problems) Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora I minimize use of unproven external packages if possible Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month github documentation I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R Excel 1980 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Field Ecologist Researcher 10 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-24T20:32:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Help () community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Scraping Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1997 M White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Italy Not Employed NA Student 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T20:41:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Tidyverse, RStudio Bad OO options, still waiting for tidymodels to be fully ready Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, Bash, SQL R 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-24T20:52:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Versatility of abstract concepts/packages to solve problems NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day ETL Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Julia, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic R 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services R Shiny Developer Software developer 5 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-24T20:55:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility Learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Class assignments I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1993 Cis woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Graduate research assistant Student 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2020-12-24T22:39:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually It's not too difficult to understand and there so many resources that can help me to learn and use R. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1999 Female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Indonesia Not Employed NA Statistician NA Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-25T00:52:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually structure and formats of data NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, blogs via RSS Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R basic 1968 M White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree France sports tennis coach Educator 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-25T01:22:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Free Code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Journal publication I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1988 M Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Philippines Education Professor Researcher 10 No, not really NA Facebook English 2020-12-25T01:44:48Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It is located in one place - RStudio, unlike python, which has several IDEs that differ from each other and it is not always clear what to use. More tuned for working with data. Complexity of shiny app - to change code you must scroll from server side to ui and to body, it can be annoing sometimes. Russian language (cyrillic symbols) and R - >:( General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dosing app I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Health Care and Medicine Clinical pharmacologist Consultant or Advisor 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-25T09:34:45Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally Easy to code Hard to decode errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it R, SAS SAS 1989 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Health Care and Medicine Stat programmer Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-25T11:13:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Great packages When people want Python instead General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R, Ruby, SAS Excel 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Insurance NA Student 1 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-25T11:33:37Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Cloud I don't know what the tidyverse is Occasionally New opportunities for learning NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month I need to learn about it I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase NA Excel 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education Researcher Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-25T11:36:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Understanding how to use apply() :-) Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Easy to use, vectorization is fun NULL causes me headaches sometimes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month PDF documents using LaTeX (I don't use pagedown) I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, SPSS Java 1992 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany NA NA Student 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-25T12:03:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually tidyverse!!! "lack of industry recognisable ""R programming"" certification or growth path such as SAS and other languages have. Would RStudio consider offering these? Also, it's hard to search for ""R"" jobs and companies that use it to apply to in order to keep growing & practise. I try to search for R, SQL, or RStudio, or combination of ""stat"", ""data"", ""SQL"", ""Python"" etc.. but it's always hard going to get potentially relvant (and well paid) work where R is the de-facto tool for performing and sharing/deploying analysis." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, rweekly Email, Posting to internal project Confluence pages & via Excel workbooks (I work in financial services) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month web scraping, running other people's code & re-writing my R code in Python for a few biggots who refused to install the R kernel Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 1 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Matlab, R, Visual Basic, SQL C/C++ 1982 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities Senior Data Analyst Engineer Data scientist or analyst 0 I'm not sure Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-25T12:25:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Power bi No Occasionally All the packages Finding rhe right package General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Programming Conda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic Comal 1974 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Utilities Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-25T12:56:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Public Health Program Monitoring and Evaluation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I can do a range of M&E data analyses (from exploratory to modeling to geo-spatial) and I don't need to use any other tools except Excel. a plethora of packages --- not sure which one to use. Same tasks can be performed with so many of them. It's confusing. Standardization is needed although tidyverse is trying. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Twitter and LinkedIn I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1979 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bangladesh Health Care and Medicine Senior TB Strategic Planning Technical Advisor Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-25T15:54:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never It’s open source and the user community is big and helpful, so when I have a code issue, usually somebody already had the same issue and somebody else found a solution and posted it on a forum for everybody to use. Packages that do not work anymore/are not compatible after an update General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda, Conda, Matlab 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Scilab 1989 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Research Postdoctoral researcher Researcher 5 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-25T16:00:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse Base R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1995 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Macedonia Financial Services and Activities Financial analyst and R developer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2020-12-25T16:19:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1996 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took NA Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually The community creating new tools and documentation NA Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to decrease Julia, R Basic 1970 Male NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Professor Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-25T17:39:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse In the world of data science, R does not have enough industry exposure compared to Python. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R, SAS Excel 1976 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Financial Services and Activities Senior Models Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-25T18:56:19Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation NA Microsoft Windows NA NA NA NA I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora NA NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA None I am just getting started learning programming 1993 None White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Case Manager 1 No, not at all NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-25T19:09:56Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never Simplicity of Base R. People that teach tidyverse for beginners. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Pascal 1989 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Not Employed Student Student 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2020-12-25T21:45:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually how powerful it can be for data analysis and reporting some packages have different object classes and are not tidy friendly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Slack I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1990 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Information Technologies data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-25T22:24:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually variety of things that can do, flexibility Having to search for error code solutions, find the correct syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1952 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Thailand Health Care and Medicine freelance stats and editing Statistician NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-25T23:51:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally The community! And building the capability to show how more traditional presentation, data story-telling can be elevated. R is designed to best help tell that story and that is what i love the most . Code and programming is scary to those who are not familiar, and that barrier is my least favorite thing. Sometimes I can only show the 'face' of a project as in a ggplot or shiny app. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R 3 4 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS Excel 1997 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Research Associate Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-26T00:18:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I can understand the code structure I forgot when to apply which package General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1985 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Information Technologies Program manager Management 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-26T04:37:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse, Tidymodel Purrr, dplyr, stringr, tidyr Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Build application program Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1970 NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Korea, South Manufacturing CI manager Management 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-26T05:48:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The possibilities it offers to analyze to data. I would like to see all those packages in one universe with somewhat easier to read documentation. My background is finance. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1982 NA NA NA Greece Financial Services and Activities Associate Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-26T06:02:49Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA lists General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing NA 1 3 I expect it to increase R Python 1988 NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom NA NA Researcher NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-26T08:13:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 NA I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 3 1 I expect it to decrease Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1984 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research NA Researcher NA Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-26T08:45:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Usually Solution for all my work issues Packages documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to decrease Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease R, SAS C/C++ 1981 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Health Care and Medicine Statistician Statistician 5 Neutral RStudio::conf Twitter English 2020-12-26T09:08:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Intuitive syntax Slow runtime sometimes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Java, Python, R, Tableau R 2000 Male Asian High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) United States of America Education Student Student 10 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-26T11:38:40Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 as a college class It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Visualization RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SQL Python 2000 female White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Not Employed NA Student 2 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-26T11:55:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel Yes Rarely The output for R is not garbage in garbage out, it sieves the output and fail if not done well Failure to know the package to use General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel NA Female NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Education NA Data analysis out of office but currently in administration 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2020-12-26T13:31:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 6 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Data science Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-26T13:33:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud 4 8 I expect it to increase None R 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Utilities Business intelligence analyst Data scientist or analyst 100 Neutral RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Finance conference, PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-26T17:27:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The diverse and useful packages Nothing really. I started programming in the 70's. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, PHP, Python, R, Ruby Fortran 1957 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Education NA Educator 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-26T17:58:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Tidyverse package Poor multitread performance and high memory usage General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Get data from api's Anaconda, Conda, R 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Professional and Business Services Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Neutral Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-26T18:35:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually flexibility and package availability documentation online General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Conda, JupyterLab 3.0 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1968 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Research researcher Researcher 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-26T19:13:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community and events like rstudio::conf and useR Breaking changes in new versions of packages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1990 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference Local slack channel English 2020-12-27T05:17:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Capacity and flexibility My own limitations.. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS 1963 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Arts and Entertainment Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 No, not really NA Email English 2020-12-27T05:40:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 7 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Functional programming, tidyverse sintax (pipe), everything RMarkdown related (Yihui’s Work) Many , many packages each for a task and not always sharing compatible API. Machine learning models specially, and tidymodels is just as confuse (so, not a Solution) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Vscode 3 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, Sql C/C++ 1980 Male White, Brazillian, not Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Auditor-Fiscal Auditor 10 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-27T09:55:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Breadth of domains covered by all the available packages NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mostly HTML documents, not slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month demoing /testing product functionalities I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Text processing R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Standard ML 1974 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Health Care and Medicine Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-27T10:35:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Open source NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Andy Field’s textbook General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1987 NA NA Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Doctor Medical professional 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-27T11:57:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Shiny Server, Tableau No Usually The high level of productivity it brings Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Go, Julia, Python, R, Rust, Swift C/C++ NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Education Lecturer Educator 10 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-27T12:11:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week NA Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of data manipulation and modeling R notebook can be slow or unresponsive Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase R, Tableau Python NA Female Black/African Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Sweden Financial Services and Activities Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-27T12:23:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually R is free and evolving constantly. None Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase “five”.* Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Excel 1970 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Senior Manager Management 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-27T14:18:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Spatial Analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, QGIS Yes Usually Very flexible and can be applied to many disciplines. Learning curve is step if you do not have a programming background. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Ruby R 1982 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Geospatial Analytics Manager Management NA NA Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-27T14:57:31Z None By myself using a book or online documentation that is not part of a formal course I think knowing R would open new career opportunities Statistical analysis, Visualization, Machine learning/modeling Microsoft Excel, SPSS, Power BI Learning R syntax NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Visual Basic I am just getting started learning programming 1971 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-27T18:32:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Jamovi Yes Usually It's free and there is a great community of people willing to help when things go wrong NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month I've only used it once I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month I'm just learning it now with my daughter Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to increase R Apple basic 1974 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Education PhD researcher Student 100 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-27T22:43:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R R NA NA NA NA NA Education NA Researcher 4 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-28T00:55:00Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, SAS No Occasionally Easy to learn and use for statistical analysis Ability to do more General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Tableau Excel 1991 NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Senior Analyst Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-28T02:29:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The tidyverse When I have to read non-tidyverse code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior Research Associate Researcher 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-28T02:56:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Great libraries & online content available to learn Package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Excel I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau R 1992 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India People Analytics Analyst Data scientist or analyst 100 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-28T03:31:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, automatization of xml sheet rendering 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Rarely the immense variety of very well crafted packages error messages can be very cryptic (also often mixed between english and german for me) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning R 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Information Technologies NA Software developer 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-28T05:26:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Wide flexibility Data classes Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Go R 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Transportation NA Management 1 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-28T06:00:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Its freedom and friendly user community memorry alocation problem General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SAS Ada and Haskell 1978 Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Health Care and Medicine Biostatistician Statistician 10 Neutral NA Email English 2020-12-28T07:37:54Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 youtube I wanted to do statistical analyses Lack of good teacher. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, sql oracle dev I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is I like the opportunity of connecting different tools, also convenience of usage of R when u got the fundamentals. "1. Getting to know R without good teacher - sometimes u get errors in really unexpected situations what can be frustrating. 2. Lack of posibility to work with code when executing another - for exaple you can't open script when some code is executing." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Youtube When looking for solution to some problem. RMarkdown I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Just to work with code, it has handy solutions as executing code in some sections. I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, R, Pascal Pascal 1996 Man White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Poland Insurance Expert of tariffication Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-28T08:20:48Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of use Lack of Internship Opportunities. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Java, Python, R Java 1997 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Not Employed NA Student NA Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-28T08:23:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 4 9 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually versatility, diversity differing synthax between packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R R 1992 m White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Research PhD Candidate Researcher 10 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-28T08:40:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely Large number of packages covering many areas of statistical analysis. Changes between R versions. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1985 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Research research assistant Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2020-12-28T11:00:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Stata Yes Usually Excellent visualization tools, ability to put statistical tools directly into production, ability to do everything I want to do all in one language/place, strength and progressiveness of the surrounding community Individual package documentation can be poor, can be hard to find things if you don’t know the name for a particular package/tool General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Microsoft Word document reproducible reports I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Stata, SQL Python 1996 Woman White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-28T11:05:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually easy to manipulate data and to machine learning lots of different functions to do the same thing, and hard to maintain a code when the functions in packages are upgraded and some features deprecated General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Rweekly RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Visual Basic 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Energy data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-28T11:06:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data presents Unintuitive error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1984 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research PhD Candidate Student 5 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-28T11:29:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility Inconsistant syntax among packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I have not done that yet. I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Excel NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Manufacturing NA Administration 0 Neutral UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-28T12:44:55Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Usually Free and open source with responsive community Documentation is not always transparent and googling for help often returns outdated answers General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Learning R I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1990 Male Asian One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Nonprofit charity NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-28T14:42:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 NA Yes Usually Simple syntax, easy to use. Documentation (help page) is often difficult to understand. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Online guides/books describing specific topics Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Maple PHP 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Education NA Student 10 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-28T15:27:34Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually flexibility in visualization, range of options for analyses, up-to-date statistical packages there is a lot to learn to run your first analysis / data wrangling General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None Excel 1977 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Education assistant (research and education, university) Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-28T15:36:09Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro No Usually Flexibility, designed for exactly what I need. Consistency within the tidyverse That other's dont use it :) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1991 female White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine head of data science Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-28T15:46:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally That it is cutting edge technology within Statistics. All new methods are quickly implemented in the R community. I also like that R is “elegant”. The HELP function results are not always intuitive to me General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Share with my students I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Optimization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS Pascal 1954 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Research Associate Professor Researcher 15 Yes, definitely UseR conference Email English 2020-12-28T19:06:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data visualisation The error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, GitHub repositories of researchers who have done similar work Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month I'm currently learning Shiny I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1997 Male British Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Research NA Student 2 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-29T02:26:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The documentation and support by RStudio Sometimes I think a package will give me a quick solution, I try to learn how to use the package, and then find out the package hasn’t been maintained in years and I run into a code breaking issue that many others have encountered General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io 3 8 I expect it to decrease Excel, Javascript, Python, R Visual Basic 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education R Developer Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-29T07:52:27Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Social and Behavioral Sciences. 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Data manipulation and data visualization. And a vibrant community! I can't tell. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R Javascript 1977 male Hispanic/Latinx, Iberian American, Brazilian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Portugal Education Researcher Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-29T08:58:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA No pattern matching as un other languages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, french community forum ans slack group NA Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Julia, R, SAS, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1982 male White Some college or university, no college degree France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat NA french r slack group English 2020-12-29T09:00:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Usually You can do anything with it. The community. It's flexibility. Some of the error messages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I don't share anything I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Work with APIs Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R 1 9 I expect it to decrease Excel, R, SPSS R 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Education Marketing data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-29T09:22:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually How it's open source - I can do just about anything I want to do How it's open source - it's not always clear what packages I can trust, and maintainers are not always reliable to respond to SO inquiries or GitHub issues. Maybe we if had some sort of review system like Yelp but for R packages, that would be useful. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Matlab 1992 Female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Public Health Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA ad English 2020-12-29T09:36:38Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to hold, view, manipulate different packages Coming from a STATA background, the commands and syntax can sometimes be a bit less intuitive/straightforward, particularly for cleaning and summarizing large datasets General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R, STATA STATA 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Public Health Analyst Data scientist or analyst 15 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-29T09:39:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 NA I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually fully reproducible, shareable analysis workflows when there are multiple packages for doing the same thing, it's difficult to determine which is best to use General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, package-specific documentation (eg, help, vignettes) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, creating draft reports of results to share with colleagues I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau SQL 1986 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Public Health Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-29T10:45:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Occasionally It's open-source and the resources are easily available NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS R 1998 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Not Employed NA None NA Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-29T11:10:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1992 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, SAS No Never Having used it for so long it's like an old friend, my go-to language if I'm in a hurry or stuck, also I like the integration with C and C++. Compared to other languages the syntax is messy/heterogenous, even compared to Perl. It is time consuming for someone who is not familiar with tidyverse+dplyr but experienced in older R language to debug that code. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Databricks, JupyterHub 3 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, Haskell C/C++ 1974 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Manufacturing Senior Team Leader Data Science Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-29T13:23:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau, Stata Stata 1988 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA NA NA No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-29T13:26:32Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Swirl (a package that teaches in R Studio) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Flexibility of data manipulation and management Leaning the syntax and troubleshooting errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SQL SQL 1995 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Teaching Assistant Student 3 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-29T13:58:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Automatically saves commands and codes in .Rhistory file. I can easily switch from using command-line on my Linux cluster and my Windows laptop. ggplot2 is intuitive once the system is understood and I've been able to teach colleagues. The graphics are professional looking. "1. Until RStudio and tidyverse came along; R documentation was poor and user help forums were run by horrible people. It was hard to figure out how to get into the community and it felt exclusive. 2. I haven't yet figured out how to merge the best aspects of R and Python. I don't feel confident I can write simple command-line scripts / R executables that I can send to a colleague who doesn't know or care anything about R. I often use Python and pandas to get around this; but the Python statistical and graphics packages are inferior to those of R." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, Conda 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, Perl Perl 1977 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Biotechnology Staff Scientist Researcher 10 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-29T14:24:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The data visualizations There are still plenty of unhelpful error messages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1983 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor of Statistics Educator 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2020-12-29T15:15:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStan Yes Usually I know it and it seems to work better with data than Python Quirks of R Language. Memory limits. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Package documentation I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Running other people's code I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Stan, Bash, HTCondor Matlab 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Quantitative Ecologist Researcher 200 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-29T18:19:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Tableau Yes Usually simplicity of the tidyverse; the R community quasiquotation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R I am just getting started learning programming 1997 NA Asian, White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America nonprofit Housing Policy Research Assistant Researcher 1 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-29T19:15:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 Microsoft Excel, SAS, Shinyapps.io No Never Many userd Slow with large datasets General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R, SAS, Fortran Basic 1973 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Geneticd Statistical consultant Data scientist or analyst 6 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-29T19:24:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, googlesheets Yes Usually making beautiful dataviz and nice reports with rmarkdown debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, twitter I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code, colab 2 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1986 female White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Health Care and Medicine pediatrician Medical professional 5 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-29T20:36:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Stata. Also, this question is confusing Yes Usually Replicability. With R, Rmarkdown, etc. there is the ability to do all of one's analyses and writing in the same place. It's just incredible what is possible, really. I'm a Stata convert and am currently working on my dissertation using R. Following others' lead and examples, I'm attempting to complete the entire document using R and bookdown. It's a challenging approach to be sure, partly because the path has led me to other unfamiliar places (e.g., LaTex), but the journey has been far more rewarding than my previous workflow with Stata. Once again, my reference point is Stata. Relatively speaking, R seems less stable sometimes. For example, in R I can sometimes run a line of code and get an error message, then run the same line again and it will work. I normally have that experience when at work and am forced to use Windows alongside an older version of R and RStudio. But I never have that experience when working with Stata, even when using an older version (which I often do, since obviously updating Stata regularly costs money). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day As I've mentioned in previous comments, I'm using bookdown to write my dissertation. But I also use RMarkdown to create html documents to share with colleagues I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Stata Stata 1981 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-29T21:01:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Time series forecasting 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally Functional programming, 1-indexed, state-of-the-art machine learning, statistical & visualisation packages Slow compare to compile code, large memory footprint General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Malaysia Insurance Developer Software developer 3 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-29T21:06:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 4 3 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 4 6 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA Financial Services and Activities NA Financial professional 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T03:02:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally easy to code issues (of installation of packages) related to anything from python environnement such as lightgbm, tensorflow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1989 Male Arab North Africa Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Tunisia Not Employed data scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T08:30:44Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Java, Javascript, Python, R, Ruby Java 1990 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Education Researcher Educator 0 No, not at all Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-30T08:50:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 EMACS ESS mode, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Never Statistical models The tidyverse approach. I find it bloated and introduces far too many dependencies making code brittle. Energy should be spent improving base R performance, and maybe introducing less brittle tooling for data wrangling. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing Microsoft Excel, R 5 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Ruby, Swift C/C++ 1989 NA Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Oil, Gas & Energy NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T08:52:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Customer Demographics / Segmentation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau, Power BI Yes Usually Data tidying and manipulation. Coming out of a MS in Business Data Analytics, I knew data wouldn't be nearly as clean as what we worked with in the courses, but I did not anticipate just how much cleaning would need to be done! Sometimes tasks that are really simple in Excel are not nearly as simple in R. But I've become a big component of repeatability, so taking the time to do it once in R and keeping it is huge. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, SQL R 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Manager, Marketing & Analytics Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-30T08:52:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidy Hard to find General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Excel, R Pascal 1974 NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Education NA Student NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T08:54:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually RStudio paste0() instead of + for string concatenation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to decrease Python, R Javascript 1992 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research PhD Student Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-30T08:59:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually The endless possibilities it presented Ease of deploying applications General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1985 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Nigeria Information Technologies Business Transformation Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference Twitter English 2020-12-30T09:02:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Python 1988 man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Insurance geographer Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T09:04:51Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Easy to learn . General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA C/C++, Excel C/C++ 1974 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Portugal Utilities Engineer Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral RStudio::conf Facebook English 2020-12-30T09:06:22Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis, Human Resources 5 8 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Easy to learn Error General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Survey analysis, Clinical trials, Financial analysis, Human Resources Anaconda, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau 5 9 I expect it to decrease PHP, Python, R, Tableau PHP 2019 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Indonesia Not Employed Not Sales 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Google's English 2020-12-30T09:09:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Quickly create rmarkdown documents for testing data layers and analysis options. "The odd ""silent"" errors where no error or warnings appear but a thing I am trying to do does not do the thing. Happens mostly when converting to PDF or MS Office documents." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML reports using highcharter in rmarkdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 4 8 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic, SQL C/C++ 1975 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Senior Developer Software developer 4 Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2020-12-30T09:13:58Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never Lot of advanced packages. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Financial analysis Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, Spyder, PyCharm 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1986 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Financial Services and Activities Financial Risk Manager Financial professional 0 No, not really Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T09:18:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses R syntax is ugly Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Clinical trials 1 1 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Nothing Its ugly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I plan to stop using it five I don't use R Markdown NA I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics, Medicine, Survey analysis, Clinical trials, Financial analysis, Back-End Development Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python C/C++ 1999 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Indonesia Research Research Assistant Researcher NA No, not at all PyCon conference From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-30T09:21:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Ruby C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2020-12-30T09:23:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Yes Usually It's statistical intuitiveness The syntax can take some time to get used to. Plus it's not great for deployment of APIs at scale, and enjoys less external support than Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1990 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Financial Services and Activities Modeling Lead Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T09:23:03Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 SPSS, Tableau Yes Usually Simple and rich of packages Abort session Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau R 1996 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Indonesia Not Employed NA None 5 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-30T09:33:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R pascal 2001 NA Asian High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Indonesia NA NA NA NA NA NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-30T09:33:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities NA Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Consistent powerful code Speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Apps I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, Visual Basic C# 1998 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Mexico Telecommunications Sr Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Facebook English 2020-12-30T09:38:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Open source. Hope RStudio stays that way Persistent learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Line numbered Basic 1963 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) South Africa Education Prof Researcher 0 Neutral UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2020-12-30T09:41:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities At advance level, R systax become ilogical style and hard to remember Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 1 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Data manipulating and visualization with tidyverse and build local small scale ML model with caret Advance syntax become ilogical style, I cant remember and always have to copy paste. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Simple report by jupyter notebook and share via mail I expect it to stay the same Zero point two I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Interactive chart I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Automation tasks or cloud function Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code, Pycharm, tensorflow 5 10 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R R 1991 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Vietnam Clasified ecommercial Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Facebook English 2020-12-30T09:44:27Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually relatively easy to learn and pick up new skills/uses for it once you get started. NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month pre-commit hooks NA 3 5 I expect it to decrease R R 1995 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research NA Data scientist or analyst 5 I'm not sure NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-30T09:46:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R syntax is easy to use processing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Microsoft Excel, R 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1987 Man Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Indonesia Natural Resources and Mining Predictive Maintenance Interpreter Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-30T09:50:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), zepl, aws ec2 Yes Usually the entire ecosystem is designed for working with data certain workflows - like pure ML and simple API pipelines - have been simpler for me to write and scale in python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), databases (snowflake) I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week documenting (html) diagnostic and summary data related to weekly reporting workflows I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month stakeholder interaction with ML models -- running what/if forecasting scenarios I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, basic data pipelining (api -> snowflake db) Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS html 1986 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T09:58:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow Student 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-30T10:06:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shinyapps.io No Occasionally It’s flexibility allows me to do almost everything It isn’t the best tool for basic data management, although I am comfortable using it for that. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely UseR conference Facebook English 2020-12-30T10:10:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Anaconda 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ 1992 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T10:11:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python Yes Usually It's a language designed for data analytics in its many forms. It's a slight burden to use R on a Mac for personal and educational work, but use R professionally on Windows machine. There's a few quirks to learn using R on both OSs (I imagine Linux has its own as well), which can be confusing for someone like myself that doesn't have a computer science background. That being said, its really not that big of a deal and Rabbi Google always comes through. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing R 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS Python 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-30T10:16:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Usually The community and the frictionless workflow supporting an analysis. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R Fortran NA NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2020-12-30T10:18:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Flexibility and cleanliness Package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Python, R, Tableau Java 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T10:33:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually its flexibility and wide range of applications still simplistic documentation of many functions and changing syntax of functions over time Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SAS C/C++ 1976 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Research professor Researcher 10 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-30T10:33:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 5 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Matlab, Python, R C# 1981 Male North African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Tunisia Research Assistant professor Researcher 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, rOpenSci Unconf, R Finance conference Facebook English 2020-12-30T10:37:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The community Nothing, I love R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R, C# R 1991 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Costa Rica Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T10:56:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 4 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Its graph Rmarkdown General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda 4 8 I expect it to increase Stata Stata 1993 M Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Peru Financial Services and Activities Analista de estadistica Statistician 20 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-30T11:01:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Understanding functions n how to use the arguments passed in the function took a while More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Rstudio, markdown , apps Wish if there was a way to create mobile apps ( unless I'm not aware of tools) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Slack I expect it to increase three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Javascript SAS 1993 Male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Health Care and Medicine Data analyst Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T11:21:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Lot easier to learn than python, rmarkdown and shiny Seems to be less favoured than python so later package updates General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic Excel 1991 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United Kingdom Insurance Actuary Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T11:30:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Simplicity Volatile packages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda 4 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, R gwbasic 1984 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Professor Researcher 5 Neutral Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T11:31:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually The welcoming and quirky community It doesn't have sklearn. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Package documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau R 1995 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Utilities Senior Consultant Data scientist or analyst 30 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T11:34:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually power sintax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS Visual Basic 1976 male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Health Care and Medicine NA NA NA NA NA Twitter English 2020-12-30T11:50:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually The wealth of packages available (particularly the tidyverse and bioconductor), the friendly community, a ease by which statistics can be performed The fact that I am dependent on packages (my fault, not Rs fault), so when they change or are no longer supported, it can be problematic for my research General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1984 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Junior research group leader Researcher 15 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2020-12-30T12:02:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested open source also mean no one place to start and what is a valid good source of information More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually focus on data science more the pure coding language that is more like C++ 1. More closed systems, therefore harder to integrate into other systems such as the cloud. 2. Marketplace focused on python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Notebooks , PPTX I expect it to decrease Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R SAS 1977 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Specialist master Consultant or Advisor 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T12:10:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The easy and intuitive syntax of various packages, such as those in the tidyverse, shiny, etc Some error messages can be hard to understand Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Google packages for functionality to see if something exists Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Potential SaaS application I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R Java NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Retail Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T12:38:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 6 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Occasionally Sintax Error messages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1988 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education Lecture Educator 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-30T13:58:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Dplyr is very intuitive NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Python 1992 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Singapore Health Care and Medicine Supply Chain Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2020-12-30T13:58:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning the RStudio development environment Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually I got very comfortable with the language and can do anything I would like with it now. More general, I never use debugging tools and I don't know how to use them. I think it is not necessary to use them in R, but I would like to learn. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, I upload knitted html pages on the companies server. I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Java 1993 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Netherlands Education Teaching Assistant Student 20 No, not at all NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-30T14:02:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Web crawler NA 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel 1964 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2020-12-30T14:09:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Tableau R 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) New Zealand Professional and Business Services Head of Data Operations Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-30T14:14:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS SPSS 1996 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Research assistant Researcher 1 Yes, definitely NA Facebook English 2020-12-30T14:40:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely I don't have to worry about file or data sizes Lack of structure to package contents General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Pascal 1964 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities Risk Manager Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-30T14:51:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Easier than other languages It would be nice to have an ide such as jupyter General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same """five""" I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel 2 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1978 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Manufacturing Product development engineer Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T15:11:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took No obstacle once I'm programmer in other languages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis, Financial analysis, Industrial applications 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally very useful syntax for matrix and vectors It is a interpreted language. There should be a compiled version for scripts (at least for Linux / Unix) to generate a .so and/or .bin file. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Javascript, PHP, R, Visual Basic xBase (Clipper) 1976 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Education Student Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2020-12-30T15:13:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Discovering R Markdown More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Being able to easily interface with more complex tools like javascript and C++ RStudio reliability General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Conda, R, RStudio Server 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau, SQL C/C++ 1996 M White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Arts and Entertainment NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-30T16:41:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Server No Rarely language flexibility lack of a proper class system General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Server 3 6 I expect it to decrease Excel, Java, Python, R R 1982 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Financial Services and Activities manager Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-30T17:08:00Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) Yes Usually Clear structure and number of possibilities to solve a problem NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same R Python 1998 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Germany Research Research assistant Student 5 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-30T17:22:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Back then, R documentation was not easy to find in the web Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Availability of packages for almost everything you can imagine Strange error messages showing up that are unrelated to code and stem from previous code executed. Could not find a solution to get rid of such messages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R Matlab 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Insurance NA Management NA Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T17:30:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) Made my job easier Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Using code for data manipulation means that when my data change, I can re-run code on new data rather than a more manual process in application such as excel. Knowing that I could be doing so much more with it than I currently do. Knowing I will never be as fast as David Robinson General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Mostly YouTube Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1976 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Risk and intelligence officer Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T17:41:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax NA Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually It's amazingly stable It's rather slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Julia, PHP, Python, R, Tableau Qbasic 1988 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Manufacturing NA Management 2 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T17:56:52Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, PowerBi Yes Usually It's so powerfull, open source and work on any computer Java based package General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Youtube General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel Excel 1974 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Process Improvment Manager Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T18:13:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 8 Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, R, Stata R 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Postdoc Researcher 2 No, not really NA Facebook English 2020-12-30T20:57:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 NA Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), PowerBI Yes Usually Tidyverse allows code to be easy to read/understand, I can share the process easier with collegues "It is slow when used for applications other than data analysis.. e.g. scrapping, working with excel. As it is not as used as Python, there is less guides on how to connect to some interfaces (e.g. Azure) whereas in Python is quite straight forward." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, DAX Excel 1991 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Consumer Goods Business Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T21:44:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Alteryx Desktop No Usually Tidyverse syntax, code readability, rstudio ide. I wish it was more mainstream in industry General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Export results to csv and email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month RPA Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Powerbi C/C++ 1993 Male NA Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Data Science Manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-30T22:17:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 Python, RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Shiny Documentation Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Deep learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1979 Male What is latinx? Is that a typo? Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Peru Financial Services and Activities Data Science Manager Researcher 6 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T22:52:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 5 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Manipulating data is intuitive. Love the Rstudio team, tidyverse - tidymodels looks promising! The perception that it can't be used in production. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SQL R 1990 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-30T23:45:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses NA More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Great support of statistical models Sometimes package documentation can be obscure General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1988 male Mediterranean Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Education Postdoc researcher Researcher 3 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-31T00:39:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Rmarkdown documents Yes Usually The formula objects for regression or other modeling. I also love the tidyverse for manipulation and visualization Not as used as python for data science Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Streamlit applications 5 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SQL C/C++ 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Student Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-31T04:04:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None I am just getting started learning programming 1993 NA NA Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) India Professional and Business Services Consultant Consultant or Advisor 50 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-31T04:18:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Modeling Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Shiny Server 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1994 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Some college or university, no college degree Brazil Health Care and Medicine NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2020-12-31T06:58:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Java, R, Visual Basic Excel 1964 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Sweden Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-31T09:47:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Downloading and installing the software Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), IBM Watson Yes Usually Once you are familiar with R you are able to perform whatever you want. I´m moving to Python because it is better handle into Watson, which my company tool. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Power point presentations I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, IBM Watson 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Excel 1973 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Financial Services and Activities Head of Risk Management 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2020-12-31T11:08:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Easy and quick visualisations Debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Excel 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Research Researcher strawberry Researcher 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-31T11:51:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It is the most beautiful and powerful language for technical approaches to sociology. R studio is also wonderful to use. There are few flaws if any. R is hard to do survey tabulations in. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Mode Dashboards 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau R 1995 Male/man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Consumer Insights Analyst Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-31T11:58:05Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R sees to be a very structured language As a beginner, I believe that there are too many packages that I sometimes forget the right way to learn R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Don't share often I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R NA 1991 MAle Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Pharmaceuticals/Biotechnology Clinical Research Medical professional 2 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-31T12:33:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The sheer number of packages for doing anything that pops into my head plus the tidyverse/tidymodels ease of use Tidyeval General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1992 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Financial Services and Activities Senior Manager, Data Analytics Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2020-12-31T13:49:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Reliable statistical tools. Pipe operator make codes easy to read and understand. It's hard to find courses/resources for doing deep learning with R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS Java 1990 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Thailand Financial Services and Activities NA Consultant or Advisor 2 No, not really NA Facebook English 2020-12-31T14:32:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Medicine 3 2 RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, vim No Usually mathematical and research bent to packages and package documentation terrible as a programming language, inconsistent syntax, etc General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo lol - none. Our org is stupid enough to use R for production analytics pipelines, so we share results via AWS Redshift / S3 I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization vim 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, scala Excel 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Data Engineering Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0.5 No, not really PyCon conference From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-31T15:57:05Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None I am just getting started learning programming NA NA NA NA NA Research NA Administration 4 I'm not sure NA community.rstudio.com English 2020-12-31T16:37:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse makes data cleaning and exploration easy Some packages, like purrr or concepts, like enquo / tidy evaluation are routinely a challenge for me General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Matlab NA Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Professional and Business Services Senior Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Linkedin. Can you please boycott and speak out against DataCamp? English 2020-12-31T19:09:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 9 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Concise functionality. Not knowing commands/functions and having to look them up. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1999 Male Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Medical Srudent Researcher 2 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2020-12-31T19:35:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 shitty boyfriend taught me It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse when I run code that used to work and it doesn't work Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Unmarked google group General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Matlab 1993 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Natural Resources and Mining Graduate student Student 1 No, not at all NA From a colleague or friend English 2020-12-31T19:55:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually The flexibility and the large community of developers sometimes clunky and not ideal for production-grade applications General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, While working on specific problems Email, Summaries in GSlides/PPT, Tableau Dashboards I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Java, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Delphi (Pascal) 1982 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Health Care and Medicine Head of Product Management 100 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2020-12-31T21:57:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 3 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Speedy and easy to understand data manipulation Bit of a barrier to entry, feel like it's less respected in the real world General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R, Ruby Ruby 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA NA 0 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-01T01:09:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested There's no standard structure for different packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually The syntax is very simple Its so much slower than Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1998 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Internet Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-01T03:20:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested none More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually ggplot NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, stackoverflow I haven't share anything yet I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, Python, R NA 1979 male middle eastern Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Manufacturing manufacturing engineer NA 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-01T04:34:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1993 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Research NA Researcher 8 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2021-01-01T08:39:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 JupyterLab 2.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Amazing package ecosystem & community tibble being forced in the tidyverse (I want to stick with data.table) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing NA 2 5 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Python, R Visual Basic 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-01T11:16:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse packages, had it not for tidyverse I would have shifted from R to say Python. Error debugging is difficult General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1975 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Education Manager Management 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-01T15:12:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Community support and focus of on statistical analysis Versioning. Virtual environments on python are very nice and I haven’t found an equally easy to use system in R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Deploying flask apps Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic R 1984 Make White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-01T17:58:10Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 With stat class on Uni and by myself I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse. it feels like instead of coding just making analysis. documentation. especially the ones aren't tidyverse function General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS Python 1999 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Turkey None Student Student 0 Yes, definitely R Finance conference RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-01T20:53:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ NA Female NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate student Student 1 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-01T23:26:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Community support and focus of on statistical analysis Versioning. Virtual environments on python are very nice and I haven’t found an equally easy to use system in R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Deploying flask apps Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic R 1984 Make White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-02T02:21:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Free, great user/developer community, easy to Google answers to questions, pretty and easy data viz tools with ggplot2 I learn as I go and as I need so my skills are patchy; my code is not the cleanest or very efficient unless I see someone else's example and learn from them. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1986 Female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analyst Administration 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-02T05:06:35Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo googlesheets I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1984 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United Kingdom Not Employed NA None NA No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-02T05:30:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually How much control of the data i have. I am the only person able to use R in my professional setting General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Internal Word documents I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, STATA R 1987 Male White, European Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Research Information specialist Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-02T07:20:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 4 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 1 7 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally I have no idea. I have no idea. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email I expect it to increase Three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1982 F Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Korea, South Utilities Business analyst Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference Facebook English 2021-01-02T09:12:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Open source and community contributed. Learning curve Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, Medicine Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R 3 9 I expect it to increase Python, R I am just getting started learning programming 1981 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Research Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-02T09:21:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Swift Basic 1977 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Police Officer Management 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:26:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It suits for everything I want to do, and it's evolving every day with new improvemnts, packages, tools, supported by a great community. It uses a lot of RAM with my work analysis because it's not intented to deal with large datasets. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Java 1982 man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Utilities Head of Energy Management Management 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:27:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 3 I expect it to decrease Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1980 male none Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education assistant professor Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:27:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Packages! Syntax was hard to learn General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None C/C++ 1985 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Military Operations Officer NA 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:28:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Geospatial 4 9 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually The vast ecosystem of packages Memory issues Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Building admin tools for coworkers I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation RStudio Connect 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau, SQL C/C++ 1982 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Politics and Survey Research Data Analyst Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:31:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There’s a package for everything NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, Tableau 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, Tableau Python 1998 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:32:40Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2010 university course (online) I was personally interested remembering syntax of any commands without looking up in SO Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually open source programmable environment its not as user friendly as STATA. Not user friendly for non-statisticians and non-programmers! Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Text processing, running our data driven web site Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SQL/MySQL BASIC 1976 male "People should never be classified by ""race""! Doing so will perpetuate racism!!! Stop asking for it!" Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) web developer Software developer 0 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:34:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1994 Lerninhalte by doing back then there was nicht alternative slow computer I don't use R any more AIX AI 3 5 Matlab, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Never nothing to slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo no sharing I plan to stop using it five I don't use R Markdown NA I plan to stop using it Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it Daily -- Once or more per day Text processing Matlab 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, Ruby, Rust, Swift, Factor, Haskel and 30 more Assembler 1968 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Chemistry Senior Product and Principal Technology Manager Management 2 No, not at all PyCon conference Email English 2021-01-02T09:34:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Beautiful graphs and maps Tricky syntax; not always clear how to solve a problem. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars NA I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Ruby BASIC (the original one, I learned in 1987). 1963 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Not Employed NA Software developer NA Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-02T09:36:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually You know what's going into the analyses Error messages can be easier to understand General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS C/C++ 1994 Woman Asian, Indian subcontinent Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research Sr. Research Assistant Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:41:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase fifteen / three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:42:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Community Documentation can sometimes be better General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R weekly Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Google slidea I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating pdfs to track models I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Airflow R 3 7 I expect it to stay the same R, Tableau PHP 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Information Technologies Senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:44:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SQL Server 2016 Yes Occasionally It’s built for quick data manipulation and statistical models. Data visualizations are high quality. Syntax can be challenging. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in documentation for my company / organization. I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Tableau Pascal (I am old) 1973 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Director, Real Estate Market Research and Analytics Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:46:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Genomics Anaconda, Conda 4 9 I expect it to stay the same R R 1984 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Argentina Research Postdoc researcher Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:48:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 NA Microsoft Excel, Python, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Its power, flexibility and wide array of packages and capabilities Many examples in the documentation aren't very clear General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Rmarkdown writeups I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling NA 4 8 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R Java 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Doctoral Student Student 4 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2021-01-02T09:52:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Scala Yes Usually The R community It can be difficult to integrate with production environment. Plumber, docker, github actions have made this increasingly easier. But it's still sometimes difficult to hand work over to an engineering team Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Jupiter notebooks hosted on GCP I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, Colab notebooks 1 2 I expect it to decrease Scala PHP 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Information Technologies Insights Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-02T09:57:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Rarely NA No sample weighting for some statistical methods NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS SPSS 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ukraine Research Head of research Researcher 1 Neutral NA Facebook English 2021-01-02T10:02:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job It was required for my work writing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Occasionally that it is not typesafe. It is very quick to do a fast mockup of something before coding it in scala/spark also that it is not typesafe, scoping difficulties, function masking General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R, scala Turbopascal 1976 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Arts and Entertainment senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-02T10:05:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility; community; online resources Complexity for newcomers General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating websites with analysis outputs I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code, PyCharm 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R PHP 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Policy analyst Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, definitely UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-02T10:14:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive apps I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Yasara Excel 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T10:16:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Its community . General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1994 Female Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Mexico Financial Services and Activities Data coordinator Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T10:19:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually powerful data manipulation, modelling error messages Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, Conda 4 8 I expect it to increase PHP Basic 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Education Associate Professor Researcher NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T10:23:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 7 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R, Perl C/C++ 1995 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Japan Accommodation and Food Services NA Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T10:23:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I needed a no-cost alternative to commercial statistical packages Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Survey analysis 3 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Basic (before Visual) 1969 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Consultant Statistician 6 Neutral NA Facebook English 2021-01-02T10:29:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Spatial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The open source community and the syntax Lack of some tools, unprofessional reputation among those who are not familiar with R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1984 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Finland Transportation Consultant Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2021-01-02T10:35:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1998 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization JupyterHub, RStudio Connect 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, Ruby Ruby 1974 NA Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Japan Health Care and Medicine NA Administration NA Neutral NA Facebook English 2021-01-02T10:44:02Z None By myself using a book or online documentation that is not part of a formal course I would like to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis NA Just getting started NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None I am just getting started learning programming NA female NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Croatia Education NA NA 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T10:46:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Flexibility Error message decoding General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Tableau R 1993 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine PhD candidate Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-02T10:51:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I outgrew Excel Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually The tidyverse, which is written consistently by one excellent team in a way that makes it so easy to succeed. That is R's great strength today and in the future. Genuine thanks for that. The fact that it seems to be left out of most API development by third parties, and so is disadvantaged relative to other languages. (I'd love RStudio to solve this via a package or simple approach that could take a python API and, perhaps via reticulate, generate all the benefits of the API in a tidy way without leaving R. BTW, I know that this is a big ask!) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, I would love to use corporate email but the otherwise-wonderful blastula package never seems to work there I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, A front-end to an R function. (BTW, it'd also be great if there was an easy way to enable R functions to be made available to new versions of Excel within a corporate environment. In other words, the user doesn't leave Excel but can run and R function from it with all the associated parameters. That would really hasten the adoption and use of R.) I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week I only ever use Python if there isn't an obvious way to do something in R Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic BASIC and then APL; yes, I'm that old! 1972 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities Head of Analytics Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-02T11:15:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It does everything I want. No need to go to different programs. It's also extremely reproducible which helps my research immensely Finding new packages that do something so much easier than what I tried to hack into existence General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS C/C++ 1990 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant professor Educator 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T11:19:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python Yes Occasionally Simplicity None Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), presentations I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, R, Spyder 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic, SQL SQL 1968 MALE White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Director, Provider Economics Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T11:32:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month etl Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 2 10 I expect it to stay the same Julia, Python, R C/C++ 1984 Male Indian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Transportation Team lead Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2021-01-02T11:49:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Occasionally Flexibility and packages NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Excel, Matlab, R R 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2021-01-02T12:02:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 I migrated from S-Plus, in both cases self-thought study and work learning to program More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually data manipulation/visualisation and a wide range of statistical analysis/modelling, all in one platform. Also a large community giving support and contributing with new packages. sometimes some packages are not compatible between them because the were built for different R versions. Also some packages are difficult to install and demand additional advance win knowledge General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Reports I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month knit to PDF I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Matlab 1968 male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Research fellow Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T12:07:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Genomics JupyterLab 3.0 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Julia Python 1997 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Research NA Researcher NA Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-02T12:16:59Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server No Never data.table and plotly packages, automating work, reproducibility, Fractures in community caused by tidyverse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month SOAP API interaction NA 3 4 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R C/C++ 1991 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining Engineer Engineer 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T12:27:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io No Usually Free and open Unclear ( unless you are an IT expert) error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Google earth engine Anaconda, R 2 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Norway Research Postdoctoral fellow Researcher 4 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-02T12:30:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Occasionally Community contributions CRAN rigidity General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, R 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic Turbo Pascal 1974 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Research Professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T12:33:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Lot of changes happening with commonly used packages such as dplyr More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Packages, Pipe, ggplot2 Automation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1987 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2021-01-02T12:33:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 9 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Infinite possibilities, free to use license, expanding everyday Sometimes incompatibilities between package updates General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling Anaconda, Conda 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R, Bash R 1977 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Health Care and Medicine Psychiatrist Medical professional 1 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-02T12:58:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R SPSS 1994 Woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Student NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T13:06:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Moving from other statistical environments (STATA, SAS, SPSS), which were all pretty similar, to R which is very different. Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis, Data management 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Stata Yes Usually The ability to work with multiple data frames at the same time. The errors can feel obtuse even after working in R for several years as a social scientist. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating explainers for clients. I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Go, R, SAS, SPSS, Stata SPSS 1987 Woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Senior Researcher Statistician 10 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-02T13:15:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally I find it fairly simple to use NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1996 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Italy Student NA Student 0 Yes, somewhat NA Facebook English 2021-01-02T13:44:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and easy to use Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education NA Educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-02T13:46:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Cloud No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS R 1994 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD student Statistician 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T13:56:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1996 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 3 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Pro No Occasionally Flexibility "Too many ""dialects"" (base R vs tidyverse) and too many overlapping packages" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week learnr resources for teaching I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mapping applications, Teaching statistics and data modelling I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 5 I expect it to increase C/C++ C/C++ 1964 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education Senior lecturer in biological modelling Educator 15 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-02T14:14:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually several. Firstly easy random no. generation , statistical packages ..etc for loops General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, pdf , tinytex I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to decrease Python, R C/C++ 1996 male Asian, Bengali indian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research Phd Researcher 2 No, not really UseR conference LinkedIn English 2021-01-02T14:18:54Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and easy to use Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education NA Educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-02T14:31:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities NA More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics 4 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally the quality of plots, it's easy once you know it that I don't always know how large a data structure is going to be in terms of RAm General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, perl C/C++ 1982 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research scientist Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T14:36:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, Tableau Yes Usually The grammar of tidyverse It used to be not being able to access it remotely but RStudio Cloud solved that problem! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau R 1989 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Policy and Advocacy Director Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T14:43:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Genomics 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase """five""" Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, PHP, Python, R C/C++ 1996 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research NA Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T14:51:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually RStudio IDE and Shiny are awesome Sometimes it feels more complex than necessary General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Server 4 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SAS Java 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) New Zealand Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Principal Advisor Business Intelligence Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, rOpenSci Unconf Twitter English 2021-01-02T15:19:48Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Such a wide range of packages and uses Code driven, how about a GUI option for some General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, SAS Basic 1977 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Head of Data Science Data scientist or analyst 100 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-02T15:32:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The ability to quickly clean, model and visualise data and create workflows that can be replicated easily. Reinventing the wheel when there are functions or packages that have solved the problem already. Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Text processing Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R Basic 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Research Associate Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T15:47:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Tableau No Usually great comprehensive documenration, comunity, packages Ram challenges when processing data. Not finding the right package. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Protoypes I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, Ruby, Tableau, Sql C/C++ 1990 Male Hispanic/Latinx One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Mexico Insurance Data Scientist manager Management 0 Yes, definitely NA Facebook English 2021-01-02T15:52:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually R studio as an IDE Data volume and processing time General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, SPSS R 1982 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Nigeria Accommodation and Food Services Auditor Financial professional 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-02T16:15:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually Ultimate lego set for statistics "NA" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Go, Java, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, Ruby, SPSS, Visual Basic BASIC 1969 ale White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Education Senior lecturer Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-02T16:19:18Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Genomics, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 3 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud Yes Occasionally NA NA R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase Three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java Excel 1995 Student White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Health Care and Medicine Biotech Researcher NA Neutral RStudio::conf, UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-02T18:34:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and easy to use Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education NA Educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-02T19:08:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Information Technologies CEO Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-02T19:41:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Argentina Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Project Manager Statistician 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T20:17:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The language is easier than others When the packages expired General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1988 Female Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Lider of area Administration 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference LinkedIn English 2021-01-02T21:27:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Flexibility and packages Redundancy and inconsistency across packages can make teaching and learning new methods confusing (e.g. packages to tile plots). Speed can be constraining and require interfacing with a different language. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Anaconda 3 6 I expect it to increase C/C++, Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Student 4 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-02T21:46:58Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The packages are so cool. I can find a package about anything I want to learn more about. It’s hard to find a good starting point for R. There are a lot of tutorials and it’s hard to distinguish the good ones vs the not so good ones. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS NA 2001 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Education Student Student NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-03T00:07:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took NA More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 5 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually Interactive analysis NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, github General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Internal shared drive I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating markdown files, and pdf via pandoc I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Financial analysis Conda, R, RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Python, R NA 1981 Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Financial Services and Activities Head of Trading Financial professional 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-03T01:06:59Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and easy to use Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education NA Educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-03T01:48:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Grad School Prerequisite for MSc Business Analytics program Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually The ease of collecting data, manipulating and automating pipelines, and presenting in web-friendly outputs (Shiny apps, Rmd, xaringan, blogdown, etc.) is super differentiating. The difficulty of using parallel processing and the future package(s) on my work system where I do not have admin rights or access to path. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, LinkedIn Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Interactive goal benchmarking and evaluation apps for C-suite I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Financial analysis JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Connect 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, R Python 1983 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Finance conference LinkedIn English 2021-01-03T01:56:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1984 male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Thailand Education Assistant Professor Educator 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-03T03:00:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics NA 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), I also use sublime Text to write code out of habbit, but RStudio is superior Yes Usually Enthusiasm of the community. Specifically the people working for RStudio Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Genomics Conda, R 2 4 I expect it to decrease Excel, Java, Python, R, SPSS Java 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) South Africa Research Student Genetics Research 1 No, not at all RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-03T05:04:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to decrease Python, R Python 1978 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Health Care and Medicine researcher Statistician 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Facebook English 2021-01-03T05:29:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, social network analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally the extensive social network analysis packages error messages are unclear, integration wit python not straightforward to me, profiling code that includes other languages (e.g., C or Fortran) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 1 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, SPSS Gauss 1967 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Education Professor Educator 100 Neutral UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-03T06:50:42Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2011 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Understanding R's data types I don't use R any more Apple MacOS NA 2 3 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Python Yes NA High quality packages Bad R language design NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Java, Python, Scala Basic 1982 NA White Some college or university, no college degree Czech Republic Information Technologies Data engineer Software developer NA No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-03T08:01:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community Cryptic error messages and how slow RStudio becomes sometimes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Shared projects, for file transformation NA 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Matlab, PHP, R PHP 1978 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Spain Research Associate professor Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-03T08:25:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-03T08:47:36Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually rstudio handling of Asian languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Fortran 1984 NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Japan Manufacturing NA Engineer 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-03T09:07:15Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and easy to use Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education NA Educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-03T09:35:21Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 19 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually coding Coding General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Research Quality manager Management 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-03T09:45:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning the RStudio development environment Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually There's so much you can do with it, far beyond the statistical anaylses I originally used it for, and the community is fantastic. Packages with poor documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Building web sites with hugodown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Python 1982 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD candidate in Statistics Statistician 2 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-03T09:49:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Shiny character encoding problems General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Currently don' t share I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation None 3 8 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R Pascal 1993 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Latvia Financial Services and Activities Business Inelegance Team leader Data scientist or analyst 9 Neutral Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2021-01-03T10:25:42Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and easy to use Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education NA Educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-03T11:05:19Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Rarely R can perform any analysis I need Incompatibility of packages and versions. Errors is sometimes hard to understand General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), PowerPoint presentations and reports I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SPSS SPSS 1972 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Croatia Professional and Business Services Senior research executive Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-03T11:25:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro No Usually Finding trends in data Understanding data structures and syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Twitter Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Sharing data analysis via html with non-R colleagues I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro 1 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R fortran 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Associate Professor Researcher 5 NA NA Twitter English 2021-01-03T11:42:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse, tidymodels and the very good and free documentation NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, c# c# 1968 man Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-03T14:46:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 8 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Usually the ecosystem around building reports, dashboards, and slide decks balanced against python, the sytnax and modules needed are far more fragmented General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data annotation I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Tableau, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, Excel and tableau are computer languages? Visual Basic 1981 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Lecturer Educator 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-03T14:50:32Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and easy to use Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education NA Educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-03T15:20:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R GUI More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 1 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic PASCAL 1974 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Insurance Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-03T18:25:47Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and easy to use Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education NA Educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-03T22:53:45Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and easy to use Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Education NA Educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-04T03:18:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually simple to install and integrate with any environment there are several features Python have dose R dosent. such as standard time class, list comprehension etc. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Server 4 3 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Java 1986 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Israel Arts and Entertainment Senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-04T04:03:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Data manipulation & visualization NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, RSS canals RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1992 woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-04T04:25:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Not having anybody in my work environment who could help me when I encountered problems More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R4ds slack community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R4ds slack community Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1988 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA R4ds slack community English 2021-01-04T05:19:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 3 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA unexpected results and inconsistent syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-04T07:56:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Great community. Often I get arcane errors working with SQL connection. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Selenium Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 3 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SAS, Visual Basic Matlab 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Financial Services and Activities Business Analyst Financial professional 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-04T07:57:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I could see it was soon going to be necessary for my work. Not knowing the first thing about any kind of programming at all. More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, creating standalone html reports I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, interactive text analysis I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1987 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Japan Education Head of Content Development Educator 2 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-04T08:31:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) NA 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month NA NA 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Go, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Ruby Pascal 1982 male Prefer not to answer High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Russia Professional and Business Services Migration Hacker Software developer 1 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-04T09:36:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Economic analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Flexibility and versatility Its quirks - but they also can help its flexibility General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Mostly for investigative analysis but want to develop direct publishing through Rmd I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R, Visual Basic BASIC 1976 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Education Reader in Economic Analytics Researcher NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Twitter English 2021-01-04T09:47:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility Because it is so flexible, it's easy to get into bad habits that lead to inefficient programming. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic Excel 1992 Man White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data and Policy Specialist Consultant or Advisor 1 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-04T09:54:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2002 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, analysis apps I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS NA 1973 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Health Care and Medicine NA Statistician NA Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-04T09:57:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually "The tidyverse makes it very handy to clean often very messy biological data without needing to do several lines of indexing and filtering and merging ""manually""." When writing my own nested functions it can be difficult to do adequate traceback to know what went wrong where. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R R 1996 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Graduate Research Assistant Student 3 NA NA Twitter English 2021-01-04T09:59:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 3 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, SAS BASIC NA """Gender"" is sex stereotypes. ""Identifying"" with a gender reinforces regressive, sexist stereotypes. Why is there no question about biological sex?" White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine programmer Software developer 10 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-04T11:24:36Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 9 JupyterHub, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS Yes Usually easy too technical General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com Email I expect it to increase 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1979 male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Nigeria Education lecturer Educator NA NA RStudio::conf community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-04T12:06:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 MSc in Data Analytics I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally It fits in with the way I think about data remembering all the options R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS Visual Basic 1960 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Professional and Business Services Chief Data Officer Statistician 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-04T12:33:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Great results from very few lines of code It takes so much time to keep up to date (e. g. reading R weekly). Had to withdraw a course I had developed because it became too outdated (ML using caret). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Video tutorials, recordings of conference talks CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R weekly; video recordings of conference talks Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Youtube videos on my channel; twitter I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Developing R workshops (which later move to other formats) I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive simulations to illustrate how statistical tests work; basis for youtube videos I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, Visual Basic BASIC (Sinclair ZX 81, then C64 and Amiga) 1975 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Education R Trainer (self-employed) Educator 0 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-04T15:06:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the reproducability that scripting affords. Also the pipe. when my problems are one-off issues I get addressed on stackoverflow, and then I just use that code and don't bother to learn more about underlying issues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R TI-Basic 1981 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Data Architect Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-04T15:47:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Stata No Usually The availability of packages Functions named identically over packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Turbopascal 1984 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Senior Survey Statistician Statistician 3 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2021-01-04T16:46:56Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses At the time, other people in my discipline weren't using it. Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Classroom demonstrations 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), vi Yes Occasionally Open Source Not yet the standard tool in my discipline (but getting better!). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, books R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month general programming language vi 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, R, STATA, Perl, sh, LibreOffice Calc, Google Sheets BASIC 1969 NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Teaching Professor Educator 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2021-01-04T17:33:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually CRAN and the extensive suite of well-documented packages Sometimes it does not seem flexible enough for my data processing needs General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1994 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Clinical Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral R Pharma conference RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-04T17:34:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), KNIME Analytics Plattform Yes Usually It's support from the community and versatility NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, books General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, KNIME Excel 1978 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Transportation Data Scientist, Team Leader Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-05T05:17:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The flexibility and the package eco-system NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, R C# 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Iceland Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-05T05:32:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1985 Female Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Postdoctoral researcher Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-05T06:10:36Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 3 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Powerful analytical tools are easy to access Writing one time scripts in R is fine, but trying to make something that you can reuse is awful, particularly in tidyverse because of tidy eval, which makes writing functions an absolute nightmare. Even if I've managed to get it to work, after tonnes of painful trial and error, I don't know why. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, shell scripting shell scripting 1990 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-05T06:47:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Vector operations on variables Switching between data types like lists and tibbles General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, embedding results in research papers submitted to clients I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS CP/M BASIC 1967 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine senior analyst Data scientist or analyst 100 NA NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-05T08:20:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), SAS, Shinyapps.io No Never Easy to do draft version of hard code How inefficient is for some programming (loops) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R, SAS, FORTRAN Visual Basic 1973 male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Consultant Statistitican Statistician 2 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-05T09:20:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work making R Studio work in my professionnal environnement (proxy, locale...) More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, data management 4 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, libre office calc Yes Usually reproductibility capacities reproductibility problems Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R help Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Matlab 1981 women White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) data analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Grrr (the french slack community) English 2021-01-05T09:52:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Diversity of tools I don't use R any more Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 2 4 NA Yes Never Natively good for stats It's ugly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python Python 1996 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not at all NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-05T11:25:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, SAS, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Tableau Python NA NA White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) R | Rshiny programmeur Student NA NA NA NA English 2021-01-05T12:22:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 by myself (option 1) and with guidance for colleagues with experience in my lab (no formal course) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Google Sheets Yes Usually I can track what I am going (gives me confidence) and it is dynamic I am still learning about data frame management - this can be a challenge and I can get frustrated with myself. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, r4ladies, OpenPlantPathology, r4ds General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, word doc reports I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1990 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) South Africa Agricultural Research (Plant Pathology) Lecturer Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-05T12:43:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Stata Stata 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Junior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-05T13:24:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually simplicity & easy to learn from an excel background. Rstudio is he best ide error messages and work team prefers python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Databricks 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1994 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America consumer packaged goods senior analyst Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-05T13:42:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Managing packages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Ability to address most data science needs such as wrangling, modeling, and web apps. Speed, scalability, not quite a general purpose programming language. It's always disappointing when a large project that mostly leverages R seems to stall because it's not exactly right for scaling. I know this isn't the primary focus of the R language, but I think continued support for languages such as Javascript and C++ that compliment R's weaknesses is extremely important. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R R 1997 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) data scientist Data scientist or analyst 7 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-05T13:56:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually The tidyverse, particularly dplyr. It matches how I think about transforming data Since using Julia I want a more solid type system and less legacy stuff General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R GameMaker Language 1997 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Construction Strategic Consultant Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA NA English 2021-01-05T14:59:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io No Usually versatility, unobtrusiveness speed (but only rarely, in which cases I use Julia) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month "Dashboards, enabling ""non-R"" colleagues to explore data" I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Julia, Python, R, Visual Basic Basic, Logo (back then ...) 1971 male people of STEM ;) Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Austria Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-05T16:55:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau Matlab 1988 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant professor Educator 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-05T17:08:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Statistics college class It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It made sense when using it learning the syntax and trying to figure out how to use new things General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week making html files I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month side development Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R Java 1998 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Information Technologies Information Security Analyst Data scientist or analyst NA No, not at all NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-05T22:27:52Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Alteryx Yes Usually Convinient Syntax Witz tidyverse NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Visual Basic SPSS 1983 male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine Sales Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-05T23:25:58Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually it's fast and free getting bogged down in things that seem like they should be simple General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Reports to clients I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Basic 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Researcher 0 No, not really RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-06T06:13:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Its flexible nature and ease-of-use with great data processing and visualization Breaking package dependencies and plattform issues (Win vs. Linux) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Pascal 1983 NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Financial Services and Activities Consultant Consultant or Advisor 2 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-06T06:48:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) Yes Usually Variety in packages When my code doesn't work General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Java 1984 Male Asian, White Some college or university, no college degree Australia Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Manager Sales 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T06:52:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job, and teaching with it I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Literate coding Error messages! Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Public Shiny apps I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing R 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R Time-shared BASIC (1970's) 1962 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Director of Research Operations Educator 10 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:00:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Replacing if() and for() with apply() and other efficient alternatives Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Occasionally Modularity of some packages, visualization possibilities using ggplot2 NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Pymol 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R, Fortran, Pascal, Perl BASIC 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Czech Republic Education Assistant professor Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:40:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The dcoumentation and community that make it easier to troubleshoot No tiddy evaluation can be hard to grasp when doing functional programming General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Excel 1989 female Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Guatemala Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Business Intelligence Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:45:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics, Survey analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, public notebook renderings on exploratory.openhumans.org I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Genomics, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, R 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R, Ruby Python 1985 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Research Fellow Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:46:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Helpful community, open source spirit Idiosyncracies and often opaque error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same PHP, R, Stata PHP 1987 NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Research associate Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:47:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The tidyverse, ggplot2, and data.table The documentation, the type system Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Java 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not at all NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:48:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Ruby Fortran 1966 Female Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:50:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Being able to do everything in one software program People who don't like R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1982 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Researcher in Life Sciences Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:51:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually The R community. The pace of core package development means that documentation gets stale and straight-up misleading pretty quick. I do appreciate the increased focus in this area, however. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 3 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Python NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Not Employed NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really RStudio::conf Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:53:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's flexibility Working out how to get packages to fit together and update General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Rust C/C++ 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Quantitative Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:53:59Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Medicine 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Free, many packages and an active and helpful community Still a beginner, lack of GUI makes is less accessible to those that don't have a background programming General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same NA R 1997 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Health Care and Medicine Medical student Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:54:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Publishing Yes Occasionally Installing libraries is straightforward. Things work. Interoperability with Python etc. is not trivial. I love Rstudio but I am increasingly worried how dependant we are getting on one (albeit fab) company. r-seek.org General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five. Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentations in HTML I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R Basic 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Professor of Open Science Researcher 5 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:55:32Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I was required to do iterative analysis over thousands of files for work. Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely Simplicity and clean storage and sharing of code and documentation Lack of flexibility in terms of data support. Sometimes we need to work with more numeric formats due to redundancy and data volume. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Geospatial analysis Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R R 1989 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Technical expert Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:55:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Social Media I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Turing 1989 ale White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Research NA Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:56:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Stata Yes Usually Graphics Crashes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week creating internal documents for sharing I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 9 I expect it to stay the same R, Stata Basic 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education senior lecturer Educator 4 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:56:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually I was a heavy excel user earlier. I love freedom it gives to manipulate data over excel NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Basic wayback in 1992 1980 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Senior Manager Management 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:57:10Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA Figuring out errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel I am just getting started learning programming 1973 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education librarian Researcher 10 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:57:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually Easy of use compared to other languages and tidyverse Hard to organize code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, R R 1991 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Research NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:57:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse, community Sometimes quite slow. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Twitter I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None Excel 1977 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Austria Not Employed NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:58:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), C++ and Rcpp No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R R 1989 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:58:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Matlab, R Matlab 1993 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Student 10 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:58:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Pipe notation Package specific datatypes often not compatible with each other, quasiquotation is still confusing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis, Creating report in Latex Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code, Latex 5 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Julia, Matlab, Python, R R NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Financial Services and Activities Senior Model Risk Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:58:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Ease of data manipulation Integration with python is somewhat clunky. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics, Medicine Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1993 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Lecturer Researcher 10 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T07:59:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Code and visualizations are easy to make readable to others, and often intuitive compared to other languages. Code grammar can be a bit challenging at times. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Genomics Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 7 I expect it to increase Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1992 Male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:01:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Basic 1980 Trans Woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:01:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Choosing among many different ways of doing somthing Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Vectorization Debugging tools not great General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic BASIC 1969 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Professional and Business Services Partner Consultant or Advisor 0 No, not at all NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:02:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Libreoffice No Usually The community People promoting reinvented wheels when base works Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Results in reports to clients I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating drafts for collaboration using Microsoft office tools I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Excel but non-coding Dbase II 1954 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research AD Stats & Analysis Statistician 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:02:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Text processing Conda, R 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Bash R 1996 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Graduate student Student 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:02:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None C/C++ 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Biologist Researcher NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:03:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R SAS 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Graduate research assistant Researcher 100 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:03:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 5 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually The package ecosystem Obtuse error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Genomics, Medicine Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterHub 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R BBC Basic 1979 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Switzerland Research Scientific Programmer Software developer 500 No, not at all Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:06:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Text processing, Web Scraping R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1998 Male White Some college or university, no college degree Brazil Trade (Retail or Wholesale) NA Administration 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:06:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Arcgis Anaconda, Visual Studio Code, Spyder 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Ecologist Researcher 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:09:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 6 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse metaverse :) Performance General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Medicine Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Pycharm 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, Ruby Pascal 1982 male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:10:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I needed R and associated packages to analyse my PhD research data Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, bioinformatics 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The flexibility in data analysis and figure plotting options, compared to GUI software De-bugging takes a lot of time.. Often scripts/code that previously ran without issues suddenly stop working and it takes ages to figure out and resolve the problem(s). R error messages also don't often specify where the problem is, compared to e.g. python/Spyder, where the programme gives you the specific row(s) where the error occured, which narrows down the de-bugging process by a lot. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Cloud storage shared with my colleagues, e.g. OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, I would use it to document my data analysis pipelines, but so far I haven't succeeded in knitting the markdown file into any other format (pdf or html) due to errors that I haven't had time to resolve I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R I am just getting started learning programming 1988 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD student Researcher 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:11:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 As part of a statistics course in grad school I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the math I was trying to use r to help with More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Genart 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually R markdown, tidyverse Cryptic error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Help files/docs/ General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Teaching - in-line code and results, document analysis for publications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, PHP, R C/C++ 1981 NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Slovenia Research Deputy director Management 1 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:11:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It's made for what I do, statistical work. NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Rmarkdown html I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data ETL Anaconda 1 5 I expect it to increase R, SAS Python 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:13:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1985 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Iceland Research postdoc Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:16:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R C/C++ 1973 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Sweden Health Care and Medicine NA Administration 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:18:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Simplicity I find a lot of the documentation is written for people who have had formal training in coding, if you’ve taught yourself, some of the things that are assumed knowledge in the documentation can make it really difficult to follow. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Education Research assistant Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:20:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Both offline and online I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Everything Nothing Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS C/C++ 1988 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Research Post-doc Researcher 8 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:23:03Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Rarely The range of statistical packages Having to type accurately General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Fortran 1952 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Associate research scientist Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:27:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 5 Python Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R, Rust, Tableau Basic 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Information Technologies Chief data scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:30:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Working out problems Getting stuck and finding endless stackoverflow posts that aren't quite what I need General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Websites via github pages I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1987 woman White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research post-doctoral researcher Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:31:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Some packages disappeared from the repo or got discontinued Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually Simple and easy to use Housekeeping with the packages/libraries General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic C/C++ 1986 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Indonesia Education Assistant Professor Educator 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:37:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Conda 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R PHP 1975 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Media Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:44:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Reproducible workflows Unhelpful error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1975 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Professor Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:49:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 University It was part of a course I took Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Data manipulation, data visualisation and data.table """fight"" between R code team, tidyverse and data.table" Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Go, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau Visual Basic 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Information Technologies Senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:50:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually User friendly packages for common data manipulation and modeling. Limited medical image processing packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Machine learning, Medicine Anaconda, Conda 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Graduate Research Assistant Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:50:24Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Ruby Excel 1995 NA NA NA NA Research PhD Candidate Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:51:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 3 5 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mapping applications I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Server 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Bioinformatics Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T08:56:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 4 7 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Simple intuitive additionally Rstudio ide helps quick verification Error handling, constraint to manage large data set General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Write back to database I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R C/C++ 1971 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Singapore Financial Services and Activities Business Analyst Consultant or Advisor 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T09:11:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally The community and support error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Python 1990 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Research Doctoral Student Student 1 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-06T09:13:58Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server Yes Usually Packages for data manipulation Deploying shiny applications and HPC Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R Basic 1978 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Manufacturing Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T09:30:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 EMACS ESS mode Yes Usually The genomics packages The Quartz plot window General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Genomics NA 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Python, R Python 1995 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research PhD student Researcher 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T09:37:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually The community of users and the open-source ethos Decoding error messages and trying to track down documentation (i.e., function argument names, etc.) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same SPSS SPSS 1976 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T10:09:15Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 3 6 RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Ggplot No virtual environments General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Health Care and Medicine Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, somewhat R Pharma conference Twitter English 2021-01-06T10:13:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse makes data analysis enjoyable. Base R not as intuitive as tidyverse. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shiny server I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Visualization, Machine learning JupyterHub, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1979 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Information Technologies Chief data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T10:14:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Java 1978 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Research Assistant Professor Statistician 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T10:33:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Managing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io No Usually How accessible it is (REPL, easy-to-use documentation) How slow it can be at times General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Small scripts for OS tasks NA 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Julia, Python, R, Ruby, Haskell Python 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Research PhD student Researcher 10 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-06T10:41:00Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to expand the options i previously used in spss Understanding language philosophy Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Ms sql; power bi Yes Usually Flexibility, broad libraries Too difficult to start Rseek.org CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Rseek.org Corporate dashboards in power bi I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, R, SPSS, Visual Basic, Powerbi; sql; powerapps Fortran NA NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Manufacturing Senior data scientist Financial professional 0 No, not really Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-06T10:42:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually data analysis in a tidyverse workflow difficult in deploying machine learning General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, powerpoint I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R Python 1988 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Insurance Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-06T10:50:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually lots of tools array formats, speed Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Genomics Conda, Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1986 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Researcher 100 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T11:21:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Quickly creating nice visualisations Trying to understand why something has gone wrong General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Housing Research Manager Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-06T11:28:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Consistent data.frame/tibble formats for tidy data, so that I can do anything I want with a consistent structure. Being able to use the same data structures for modeling and visualization. Packages that rely on S4 classes that it is hard to get data out of; package updates that break old code. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Data repositories figshare and zenodo I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, I make apps so that my collaborators can interactively visualize our data. I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Text processing, Genomics Conda, R, BBedit 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R BBC Basic 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Research Group Leader (equivalent to associate professor) Researcher 20 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T12:11:54Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses well, so far i don't have any... loved this language since the very beginning Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually its ability of quick and easy data manipulation and beautiful visualization there's none General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease R C/C++ 1998 male Asian High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Bangladesh Not Employed Student Student 2 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T12:22:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work getting my head around vectorisation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually RStudio IDE is very good. Being able to run single lines of code for testing. error messages are sometimes hard to decipher. Data type inconsistencies can be annoying to track down. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1984 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-06T13:43:12Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 University course taken online It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually There are several different approaches to solve any problem Error messages do not always clearly specify what the error is / where it occurred General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1998 Female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Student 10 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-06T13:50:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Understanding lists in R More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Shiny web apps 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The community of developers Submitting R packages to CRAN - the process is just convoluted General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Web scraping and web automation tasks (e.g., Selenium) Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Dart R 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Charity Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-06T13:57:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Package availability, tidyverse Not general purpose, different styles (base vs tidyverse), performance occasionally General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 10 I expect it to increase R Excel 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Environmental consultant NA Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-06T14:22:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested R is a very nuanced language. Easy to do poorly, difficult to do well More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Never Lazy eval, NSE, general sexiness. If you can imagine it, R can do it tidyverse cult >:( Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, general reports with collaborators I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Matlab, R, scheme Python 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Student 2 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-06T15:19:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2001 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses NA More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Modern Fortran, Haskell BASIC 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Professional and Business Services Executive Director Data scientist or analyst 350 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T16:10:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Infinite possibilities Scripts that no longer work after some packages upgrades General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1969 NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Manufacturing Purchasing Manager Management 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-06T17:23:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job Open source scripting language for data analysis Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Open science & communication: websites, books, documentation, training. 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Google Sheets Yes Usually It empowers me. The community, the tidyverse, Shiny, & RMarkdown have changed my relationship with data analysis, science, and open, reproducible research, and it is the best thing ever that I'm now dedicating myself to helping others be empowered too hard-to-interpret error messages and base-R [[]] syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Open science and policy: Engaging scientific/policy stakeholders for feedback throughout a project as well as final communication. We often publish a Shiny app along with a scientific publication so that folks can look at for example all countries rather than the few static figures of a few countries that were published in the manuscript I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 3 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, Google Sheets Matlab 1981 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Science Project Scientist at a public university Researcher 40 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-06T22:28:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested understanding how to use lapply and map functions More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, SAS, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually the community is amazing and builds not much General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Anaconda, R 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R Java 1985 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) New Zealand Education Lead Data Analyst Educator 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-06T22:31:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The flexibility to quickly explore and visualise data, develop a suitable analysis, and then productionise the result. Working with types (as part of my preferred functional style aimed at reducing errors in productionised analyses) is clumsy and slow compared to languages with dedicated type systems. I have yet to find or build a type system in R that works to my satisfaction. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Google Docs I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R Javascript 1989 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-06T22:37:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually RStudio - best IDE I have used (among both R and python IDEs) NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Pascal 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Transportation Head of Product Management, Digital Services Management 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-06T22:43:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually it's terseness, power DEBUGGING General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic BASIC (not visual), followed by FORTRAN and COBOL 1960 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities CEO Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat R Finance conference Twitter English 2021-01-07T03:47:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually Simplicity, power, and beauty. Reproducibility, easy to understand. Confusing error / warning messages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating html reports with text, code, and visualizations. I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive visualizations I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1999 Female White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) United States of America Research NA Data scientist or analyst NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T05:22:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 7 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Data. Table package, vector is ed operation NA NA Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R C/C++ 1999 Male Asian Some college or university, no college degree India Education NA Student NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-07T06:52:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau No Usually NA Free, robust, provides options in ML/ statistics General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SAS 1977 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Utilities Consultant Consultant or Advisor 4 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T09:12:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Vim Yes Occasionally Data viz Lack of data structures like hash map Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, Creating GitHub markdown with plots I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis JupyterLab 2.0, Vim 5 10 I expect it to decrease Excel, Go, Julia, Python, R, Ruby, Tableau, SQL Excel 1986 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Finance conference, PyCon conference Twitter English 2021-01-07T10:19:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Easy to quickly write code and analyze data Difficult error messages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1977 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-07T10:43:21Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 academics - graduate course It was part of a course I took translating SAS knowledge into R Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Clinical trials 3 5 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, SAS, Anaconda Yes Occasionally NA NA community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Server, SAS 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, Visual Basic SAS 1978 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Sr. Director - Statistical Programming Statistician NA No, not really NA NA English 2021-01-07T11:52:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, pdf research reports I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 10 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R Java 1983 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Neutral Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T11:53:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses I was used to python and was frustrated by inconsistency in R. Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Rcpp; netlogo; github Yes Occasionally The community and the ease of publishing your own packages to github; ease of installing packages; graphical outputs of high quality Inconsistency General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Twitter I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling Eclipse; ArcGIS; GDAL; QGIS 4 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic, Netlogo Visual Basic 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research PosDoc Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:08:57Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Tableau R 1980 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Environmental Consulting Principal Consultant Consultant or Advisor 20 No, not really RStudio::conf From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-07T12:10:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of use, support and package ecosystem. Clunky error messages, and lack of information about running processes (including time and size estimates) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts paste into powerpoint I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, JupyterLab 2.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Matlab, Python, R Idris 1998 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Business Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:11:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Readability Shiny modules General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Informal reports of data analysis I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Modeling tools I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Conda, R 3 6 I expect it to increase R R 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T12:13:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2002 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Power The syntax has not changed, but packages have changed a lot, so half-life of skills is much shorter than I would like. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, PHP, R, Visual Basic, PERL, Octave, Bash FORTRAN 1961 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Retired; politcal forecasting; redistricting NA Retired 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Finance conference Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:15:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually ggplot2; formula interface to models; overall cohesiveness of datatypes and packages to work with them nothing in particular General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo I usually don't I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Matlab, Python, R Pascal 1995 man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ukraine Education NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T12:17:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work Managing packages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally NA Dependency management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Web app frameworks Anaconda, R 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau LOGO 1990 NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Software developer 6 Yes, definitely rOpenSci Unconf, R Pharma conference Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:18:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1985 Male Prefer not to answer Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Brazil Health Care and Medicine Infectious disease specialist Consultant or Advisor 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:20:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau No Usually The flexibility and community for help and learning. The open-source collaboration for package development in an open-source ecosystem. The help pages are abstract and hard to follow. I would like for all the base R docs to be reviewed and re-written with up-to date best practices, tidyverse coding style (esp. good variable names), and examples that are reflect the most likely application for an average user. I also wish it was easier to promote my work. I've built some cool packages but it's hard to stand out in such a large crowd. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Twitter I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R, Tableau Excel 1984 transgender White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Clinical Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 40 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference The RStudio Blog RSS feed into slack English 2021-01-07T12:29:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses NA More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually tidyverse, RMD notebooks NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 4 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, scala BASIC 1972 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Senior Research Associate Software developer 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T12:31:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses following good practices while programming/cran policies More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), GitKraken Yes Usually Tidyverse, functional programming, RStudio IDE Not informative errors, shiny (front-end) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, R-Weekly Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, other documents not related with programming or statistics, tables for surveys excercises (conjoint, maxdiff) I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month model simulators, calculating designs I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1985 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Poland Professional and Business Services Senior Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-07T12:35:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Go, Java, Python, R Java 1992 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research research associate Researcher NA Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:35:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I like the possibility to do statistical analysis and other inferences on different data sources using a variety of packages and get help on the internet by simple making requests. Also I like the fact that there are many opportunities for learning how to use it and that is free. R is always update with new packages and gives you the possibility for learning how to make iteractive functions in a quite understandable way. I found difficulties in understanding the documentation provided inside the program, which is very useful and easy to reach but it is not very simple by a learner point of view. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis JupyterHub 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1973 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Education Statistician Actuary Student NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:36:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Python NA NA NA NA NA Health Care and Medicine NA Consultant or Advisor 10 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-07T12:37:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 3 5 JupyterLab 3.0 No Usually I hate it, rubbish. NA Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA NA f**** Daily -- Once or more per day Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I plan to stop using it Daily -- Once or more per day Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Survey analysis Matlab 1 2 I plan to stop using it Python R 2019 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2021-01-07T12:38:08Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation I don't use R any more Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually With R, I was able to create effective data visualization. The explanation of the functions under Help can sometimes be a bit convoluted. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R Python NA Female Asian High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Vietnam Not Employed NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:38:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually great for back-end analyses. Abundance of statistical packages designed by and for statisticians. Slow for large tasks. `For` loops are so bad. I've learned how to program without them, but sometimes I just want to write a loop please. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, research presentations I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, when R would be too slow or not flexible enough Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 2 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Python 1995 Female Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate Student (PhD, Biostatistics) Student 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T12:39:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The tidyverse I would like some more integration with Stata General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel 1993 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Data analyst and project manager Researcher 7 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:40:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually robust packages & documentation for statistical analyses "this is difficult to articulate, but the gulf between the tidyverse approach vs. the base R approach to programming. while the tidyverse is an excellent tool & i use it for the majority of my work, many packages that are critical for psychometric work (lavaan, sem) are not in the tidyverse, so ""code-switching"" between programming paradigms can be challenging at times." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, creating pdf and html reports - but not using an extension package such as pagedown/blogdown/etc. I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, PyCharm 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau C/C++ 1986 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T12:40:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, PHP, Python, R, Ruby Excel 1965 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Health Care and Medicine Chief Science Officer Medical professional NA No, not really RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T12:40:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Powerful and flexible syntax that can be easily extended; the open source aspect of the language. Error messages can often be convoluted. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Demo of R packages for non-R users. I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, SAS, SPSS R 1985 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Assistant Professor Statistician NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T12:40:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Simple way to plotting too many lines of code Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R NA 1990 Male NA Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) India Education PhD Student Student 0 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-07T12:41:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Genomics 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud Yes Usually Its flexibility The error messages are not always the clearest General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SPSS R 1975 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Education Assistant Professor Researcher 1 I'm not sure NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:41:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually The to clean, manipulate, and analyze data in one place. I also like the ability to produce reports, dashboards, and visualizations. My organization doesn't use it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 1 I expect it to increase R Excel 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Learning and assessment manager Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T12:42:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to stay the same 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS Visual Basic 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research NA Consultant or Advisor 3 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:42:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually clear functions IDE selection General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Go, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, Tableau Python 1951 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Talent Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T12:42:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Java 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:42:53Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 2 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA Difficult General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None R 1989 Female Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Research PhD Researcher Researcher 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:43:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually the big number of possibilities on doing a job if I stop using for a little while, i forget and I get stuck for a while General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1977 male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Guatemala Research Professor Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:43:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Medicine, Automation 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually Help available online Troubleshooting errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Tableau R 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Health Care and Medicine Associate director data analytics Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:43:46Z None Through an online course or courses (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I think knowing R would open new career opportunities Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Machine learning/modeling, Text analysis, Survey analysis Microsoft Excel, SPSS Just getting started NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, SPSS SPSS 1963 female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Professional and Business Services Customer Experience Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:43:55Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and Graphics Incredible amount of packages, I am never sure if I am using the correct one General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Stata Stata 1984 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ireland Research PhD Student/Part time lecturer Student 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:44:44Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 6 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server I don't know what the tidyverse is Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Typical programming projects Visual Studio Code 5 8 I expect it to stay the same Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R C/C++ 1978 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Research Associate Software developer 15 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:45:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Flexibility Different function syntax in different cran packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Adviser Statistician 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:45:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Reddit Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 2 7 I expect it to increase None R 1991 NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:45:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1990 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses No perceived obstacles More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Extensibility and access to underlying code in distributed software. The general push to use the tidyverse as an overall paradigm is not a good, as too many new users do not see its shortcomings and do not know enough base R to work without it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating internal reports, the results in which will be incorporated into papers for journal submission. I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic Pascal (then C) 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research Mathematical Statistician Statistician 3 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:47:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Occasionally NA error debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Greece Research Data Scientist Statistician 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:48:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau No Usually Works! Documentation Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, Tableau Pascal 1989 Male Persian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Iran Health Care and Medicine Statistical Analyst Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:48:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA Everything is already vectorized General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SPSS Java 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine post doc Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:49:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Logic Errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java C/C++ 1980 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Education NA Educator NA Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:49:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Visualization, Clinical trials, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually graphs are pretty I don't know enough to do more than follow examples. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation When required in an example Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1958 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Grants and Contracts Manager Administration 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T12:50:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually The syntax usually makes a lot of sense to me The error messages can be really opaque General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data collection R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), PsychoPy 2 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS R 1997 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Graduate student Student 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:50:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2000 in my MsC It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Databricks, JupyterLab 3.0, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), SAS, Shiny Server, SPSS, Tableau, statgraphics, stata, Yes Usually diverse, i can to apply in several fields NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Medicine, Clinical trials Anaconda, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro, SPSS, Tableau 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1964 male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Colombia Education Teacher Statistician 5 Yes, definitely UseR conference Email English 2021-01-07T12:50:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually comprehensive is not designed for parallel computing from scratch Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Deep learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub 4 10 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R, Perl C/C++ NA NA Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Telecom Principal Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:50:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually the community and resources available inconsistency of packages over time. it is a nightmare for collaboration and reproducibility General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R R 1993 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Statistician Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:50:58Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase """five""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R Excel 1983 Female Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia NA NA NA NA NA NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:51:48Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Financial analysis Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R I am just getting started learning programming 1978 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Uruguay Education Teacher Educator 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:52:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Downloading and installing the software More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Ease of deploying interactive applications with Shiny Execution speed Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Internal package repositories I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Visual Basic 1990 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Manufacturing Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T12:52:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Grad school coursework I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Free; range of applications Hard to set up; not beginner friendly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Stata Stata 1990 Woman Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Phd Candidate Researcher 5 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:52:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Never NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same NA fortran 1962 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education NA Educator NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:52:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Being able to document my processes and share with my colleagues via RMD/HTML formats Steep learning curve & everytime when I updates the packages, it feels like it's always messing up with the codes/logic etc General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo I don't. Only shared within our organization but without using portal, we don't have that many R users at my research unit unfortunately. I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1989 M Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Research and Evaluation Lead Management 1 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:53:18Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 7 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally A lot of package selection and appealing visual On Rstudio, the graph window often couldn't produce the graph General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Excel 1979 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Malaysia Financial Services and Activities Manager Consultant or Advisor 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:53:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Simplicity of cleaning large data and visualizing it Managing all the Packages, using them with other packages, and updating them etc General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Microsoft Excel, R 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Python 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Financial Services and Activities Treasury Analyst Financial professional 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:53:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SQL, PowerBI Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, SQL, DAX Java 1980 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Insurance Manager of Research & Analytics Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:53:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually Vectorized programming love/hate the tidyverse - useful, but also making normative changes to R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month "Creating publication-ready articles for submission, This question is the first time I've ever seen the terms ""pagedown"" and ""pkgdown""!" I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R Commodore BASIC 1973 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistical Information Specialist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:53:54Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA building packages from source General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic Excel 1962 male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Medical professional 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2021-01-07T12:53:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server, Tableau Yes Usually Easy to learn, versatility, R Shiny and plumber capabilities Package management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1994 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research Analytics Director Management 5 No, not really RStudio::conf Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:55:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Availability of packages Figuring out the syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS Excel 1988 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education PhD Student Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:55:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually power and parimoniousness obscure syntax Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Pascal 1977 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Transportation Planner Management 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:55:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modelling I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Experimental programming NA 3 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Turbo Pascal 1976 NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Professor Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:56:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS Yes Usually Open source (I use both windows and Linux), versatile, good community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, SPSS Swift 1954 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Collection Manager Research Support NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Email English 2021-01-07T12:57:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually I think it's cool. It's more cool than Python. Slow sometimes. You have to work around For-Loops. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Python, R C/C++ 1984 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:57:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It expanded the analysis I could do. Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I can do about everything I need from within RStudio. Nothing stands out. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization, Text processing R 3 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Julia, R R 1975 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Management 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:58:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job It was required for my work Managing packages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually fit for the analytical purposes, flexibility package dependency management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1988 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Logistics Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-07T12:59:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Practical and has a lot of support on the internet for doubts and error debugging. Also the data visualization tools and reporting capabilities through Rmarkdown are extremely useful Sometimes its performance is too slow comparing to other programming languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Visual Basic 1988 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Financial Services and Activities Risk Analyst Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T12:59:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, STATA No Usually Fun Takes a long time to do something. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, SAS, Fortran, STATA Fortran 1951 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Emeritus Professor Researcher 1 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T12:59:52Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually its free coding and getting exact packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel Excel NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Nepal Research researcher Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-07T13:00:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Flexibility Poor reliability and engineering of many codes implementing complex statistical methods in contributed packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, STATA STATA 1993 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Economist Economist 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:00:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The tidyverse String manipulation Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R R 1992 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Philippines Research NA Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-07T13:01:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Now, with RStudio involved, it is getting much better organized. It can be very slow. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Dash 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Julia, PHP, Python, R Visual Basic NA NA NA NA NA Pharma R-Admin Integration NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference Email English 2021-01-07T13:02:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R Python 1978 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research PhDstudent Researcher 4 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:02:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, SPSS Yes Occasionally "There is always a package for ""everything."" And it's FREE." NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, YouTube General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1978 Male Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 20 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:02:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Clinical trials 4 8 Microsoft Excel, Power BI - use R script to do some cross-checking for QA Yes Usually Very productive once up the learning curve. Steep learning curve. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN package list Email I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, Javascript, R, SQL, VBA C/C++ 1960 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Information Technologies Product Manager Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2021-01-07T13:02:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Microsoft Power BI Yes Usually Community support "Not an ""R language"" problem, but lack of GUI-like functionality" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Server Pro 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Java 1990 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Legal Data Analytics Manager Legal 1 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:03:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Python Python 1986 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Austria Research postdoc Researcher 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:06:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job It was required for my work Understanding OOP Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Automation potential. Not a lot available for automating email reporting. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML files I send as reports. I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel 1994 Female Asian, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Marketing Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T13:07:30Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job It was required for my work Using R's documentation Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually free, open platform, community NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Matlab, PHP, R, SAS Matlab 1970 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Finland Research senior systems analyst Consultant or Advisor 10 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:08:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online MBA course It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R Javascript NA NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies NA Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA Facebook English 2021-01-07T13:08:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Python, radian, neovim Yes Usually Orientation towards statistics and data analysis Orientation on interactive usage and not on programming General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Neovim, poetry 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R Turbo Pascal NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:09:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 7 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), SPSS Yes Rarely Free packages for analysis/model_methods I would have to pay for a software fir e.g. Rasch modelling , SEM models etc. The errors sometimes not easy to understand, no drop down to select and run analyses e.g. like in STATA ( lack of dropdowns menus make it hard for first time users) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase """Five""" I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Go, R, SPSS, STATA SPSS 1991 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research Economist Researcher 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:10:09Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 3 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), FME https://www.safe.com/webinars/ins-and-outs-of-using-r-with-fme/ Yes Rarely R community steep learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation FME 2 5 I expect it to increase Tcl BASIC 1967 Male. I am a biological male. It's in my DNA. Is this a woke survey? White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Bouvet Island Information Technologies tech support Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2021-01-07T13:10:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually dplyr and ggplot2 official support for packrat-like functionality General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Text processing, Survey analysis Jupyter Notebooks, PyCharm 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic R NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistician Legal NA Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:11:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Dplyr, ggplot2 NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase R Java 1989 Male Asian One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education Graduate student Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:13:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Google sheets Yes Usually RMarkdown and its overall flexibility Lack of publicity about how amazing R is to the enterprise IT leadership teams so I am very isolated. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease R, Haskell Assembler for Hollerith electromechanic tabulator. 1961 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) New Zealand Health Care and Medicine Chief Clinical Information Officer Medical professional 0 Neutral RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference Email English 2021-01-07T13:13:35Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Rstudio interface, efficiency for data manipulation and visualisation. RMarkdown Packages documentation is obscure General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1981 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Statistician 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:14:46Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Occasionally simplicity errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda 3 3 I expect it to increase SAS Excel NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Head Teacher Assisstant Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:16:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was studying various methods of random number generation. Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server No Occasionally It's fairly simple to use. Finding functions I need to do certain things and modifying functions to do what I want. R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Jupyter Notebooks 2 2 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, R Basic 1955 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 1 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:18:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Matlab, R C/C++ 1995 male Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Arts and Entertainment NA Administration 0 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:18:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax I don't use R any more Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 3 6 Microsoft Excel Yes Rarely Indexing that starts with 1. More geared to academic environments, and specialized too much towards statistical analysis. Should be more widely used across different tasks and environments (like Python) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Website scraping Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ NA NA NA NA Canada Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:19:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually dplyr ggplot, error messages, steep learning curve, lack of someone to talk to regarding help. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R SPSS 1963 M White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Professional and Business Services CEO Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:22:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Fastr graalvm No Usually How diverse the optioneel are. You can do so much cool stuff The package version drama. Especially when cannot use the latest and greatest General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Gitlab not public I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing, AI Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Java, Python, R, Shell Matlab 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Information Technologies Lead data scientist Consultant or Advisor 30 Yes, definitely UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T13:22:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually After understanding the language, working with R is easiest. The language syntax for building web applications. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1993 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Ghana Education Graduate Teaching Assistant Student 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T13:22:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually freedom, versatility, can do anything i need it to do cryptic error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Conda 1 3 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Julia, Matlab, Python, R C/C++ 1974 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Research director Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T13:22:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 On the job It had better graphics than SAS Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually It's great for reproducible research and literate programming (RMarkdown) The error messages and terribly written documentation. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Standalone word docs from RMarkdown I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Automated data reformatting tools for various biological assays I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic, Stata Turbo Pascal 1977 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Scientific Director Statistician 20 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, R Pharma conference Facebook English 2021-01-07T13:23:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Also heavily using documentation I needed to get more granular and scalable control of processes I was doing in other software with a GUI Managing rJava. More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the code is so readable I need a smoother way to write to and from disk when manipulating large datasets (10gb) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, ?? General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, Python, R qbasic NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Educator NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:23:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Proteomics 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Visualization NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1977 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2021-01-07T13:25:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses NA Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Bioinformatics literature Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, shell script, perl perl 1965 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Research Staff scientist Researcher 30 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:25:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Rarely The speed to test new ideas Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Papers I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, R Fortran 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Belgium Education Teacher Researcher 2 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:29:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Usually I can complete the entire analytics lifecyle in R I would appreciate more OOP support General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Javascript, R, SAS, Visual Basic C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Assc. Director of Data Analysis Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T13:30:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job most of the people in my field use R Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, demography 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually many things are automatable compared to excel etc, community very different from othe programming languages, different logics etc General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same nine Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, latex Excel 1994 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Czech Republic Research phd student Student 1 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:30:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested not enough examples. Help examples are often terrible More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, ocean data, tide prediction, anything with data 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually developed by smart people. Rely heavily on Hadley, RStudio packages and books, Love tibbles and dplyr. Not a huge fan of GGPLOT even with its improvements. a paucity of examples of,say, operations with lists which are gnarly to get working. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, never heard of METACRAN or community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month didn't know it could do all this stuff I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month used it once a few years ago. It was clunky. I'll look again I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month I've used PYTHON but it seems to me R satisfies all my current needs none NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R, FORTRAN, REXX FORTRAN, ALGOL 1944 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Engineering (not listed ??!!) NA engineering, mathematics 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T13:30:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2004 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Everything Copy on modify semantics Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Denmark Financial Services and Activities Lead Data Scientist Management 0 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, R Finance conference RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T13:30:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R Excel 1979 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education NA Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:31:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 9 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually RStudio, and tidyverse or data.table, Shiny never really got the OOP system General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables, Network visualisation with visnetwork I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R QBASIC 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Research Research Fellow Researcher 3 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:32:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested None, It was smooth sailing till now More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually High level, Compact, vectorized functional language The R6 class, poor error messages from base R & lack of native deep learning packages Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1965 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Information Technologies NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T13:32:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Intuitive, community, free, rstudio products Single threaded, efficiency Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Tax-benefit microsimulation I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, R Basic 1976 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Belgium Education Professor Researcher 15 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:33:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 option 1 and 2 as well as the rstudio webinars and blogs phd work and also to automate a lot of reports in work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, reporting powerpoint, excel dashboards etc 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, PowerPoint and databases Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, R 3 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Excel NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA logistics NA Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T13:35:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Rmd files Running into issues with vectorization General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1994 Female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Transportation NA Engineer 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:35:29Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It's easy It's not fast General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SPSS C/C++ 1984 M Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Research Political scientist Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:35:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually community, packages, versatility. rmarkdown is the best! error messages / documentation that require already knowing what people call stuff. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Visualization, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, R 2 6 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1982 M Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Graduate Research Assistant Researcher 3 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T13:38:31Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually tidyverse + ggplot2 The documentation is still difficult to read General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Online classes Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Powerpoint I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, HTML documents I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau, SQL BASIC 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:39:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Power BI Yes Usually Need to write less code Speed and does not have facilities like autoformat of codes. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud, Shiny Server Pro 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau Python 1968 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Education Faculty Educator 10 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:39:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I find all packages and how to use all commands for all of my statistical analysis Error messages not specifying the error General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, R, SPSS SPSS 1986 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Health Care and Medicine Assistant Professor Medical professional 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:42:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Command line flexibility Dates/time General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R Basic NA NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Independent analyst IA Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:43:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Developing in R when everybody in your company uses other Lang's and your IT infra doesn't help you More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Google Sheets Yes Usually Very well done packages for pretty much anything I need R for Not as popular as python which means it's not often supported by third party platforms natively Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Stackoverflow Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data import via API RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic HTML 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research Associate director of data analytics Statistician 2 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:45:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility Initial steep learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS I am just getting started learning programming 1991 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research NA Medical professional 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:45:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Usually Community,large amount of resources,packages for everything,fun! Sometimes slow,deciphering error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Social media I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 3 I expect it to increase Python, R, DAX,SQL C/C++ 1997 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:45:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 16 On the job It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Occasionally NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1978 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Data manager Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:45:50Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation NA NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, Stata Stata 2001 female White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Germany Education student Student NA No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:46:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The ability to perform complex data manipulation as well as create scripts and other tools colleagues can use. Can sometimes be difficult to pinpoint exactly what package or method you need to use to complete a task. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining Forest Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:47:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding the structure of the language Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io, Mathematica Yes Usually The tidy verse command set if easy to understand and supports a fluid thought flow The syntax of different packages drives me crazy. Except for the tidyverse is is chaos General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud, Shinyapps.io, Mathematica 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Mathematica Mathematica NA NA NA NA NA Financial Services and Activities head of research Financial professional 5 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:47:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Java 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Assistant professor Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:49:46Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python Yes Usually It is a tool that helps me do data analyses efficiently I don't really dislike anything; at least not yet. I am a beginner and still learning. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, ArcGIS Pro 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Power BI SPSS 1981 Female Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Financial Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:50:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 NA Yes Usually open source, clean graphics base R, managing package dependencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Visual Basic, Stata Stata 1980 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Public Health Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:50:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2001 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually it was really the 1st analytics software that I learned so I have always been comfortable using it. just keeping up with the changes/updates General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SQL R 1967 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Director Management 3 No, not really Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T13:52:51Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Find answers to specific problems when not being familiar with programming Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Flexibility compared to software such as jmp, and ease of use compared to python Not having anything preprogrammed, especially for data visualization General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I don't really have results to share so far :( I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month behavioral tasks programming psychopy 1 7 I expect it to stay the same R R 1993 none White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Research phd student Researcher 0 No, not really NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-07T13:52:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually piping no hash tables Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R Python 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Full Stack Developer Software developer 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T13:56:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was part of a course I took matrices operations More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis 4 7 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to learn Less intuitive and less flexible than python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, HTML or PDF created with Rmarkdown or Jupyter Labs I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month tasks for my MBA and other courses I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code, Spyder 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R Basic, and then C and Pascal. Long time ago =) 1974 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) System Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:57:26Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy and intuitive for statistical analysis More limited than other programming languages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning, Medicine Conda, Atom 3 8 I expect it to increase R, SPSS Ruby 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Health Care and Medicine Junior doctor Medical professional 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T13:58:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Rweekly Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1990 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Principal Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-07T14:00:56Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server No Usually I feel functional programming is the most fitting paradigm for data analysis, and R/tidyverse is built for that paradigm. Less career opportunities than for Python. Also computational performance isn't great. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase R HyperTalk 1981 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Finland Health Care and Medicine Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T14:01:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Big ecosystem of packages Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase R R 1986 Male White Engineer's degree Slovakia Energy area Engineer Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Facebook English 2021-01-07T14:01:40Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Retirement hobby Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community Debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic, fortran fortran 1947 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Ireland Health Care and Medicine Retired paediatrician Retired 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Medicine conference Email English 2021-01-07T14:03:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took learning statistics Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually relatively easy to get up and running not as popular/marketable/capable as Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R VBA 1973 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Human Resources Reporting Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T14:07:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's fun to use, and most of the time there is a package out there that will enable you to easily do the task/analysis you're wanting to do. Wish it was more accepted in the data science community. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1995 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Student 3 Yes, somewhat R Pharma conference Email English 2021-01-07T14:07:39Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, Shinyapps.io No Usually Easy data manipulation and great documentation Execution time of some rutines General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Optimization, Software Development R, Google sheets, PyCharm 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Mosel (Xpress) Java 1990 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Transportation Lead Data Scientist Researcher 30 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:08:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses All of the above More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 NA Yes Usually open source package system syntax is a bit confusing at first r-specific ebooks and the discoRd Discord server; I tried community.rstudio.com many times and never got the help I needed R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript Javascript 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Psychology Psychologist Researcher 0 Neutral NA discoRd server on Discord English 2021-01-07T14:08:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually pipes, clear syntax methods, Shiny, ggplot2 not having OOP like method. Inconsistent syntax in different packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 3 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1986 NA Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Arts and Entertainment Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:12:04Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week I use Ubuntu (I use python too), but latest Ubuntu does not work well with R Studio... Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 8 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, PyCharm Yes Usually Great number of packages Speed of processing and rather narrow purposes of the language Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R Bloggers Email, RPubs.com I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, just creating html to share results of my projects I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, AWS, Tensorflow 5 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1979 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland and fintech startup Associate prof. + data scientist and educator 0 Neutral Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Email English 2021-01-07T14:12:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R either Apple Logo or True BASIC. I can't remember which was first. 1983 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Management 3 No, not at all NA Email English 2021-01-07T14:13:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel No Usually R Studio makes it very clean and easy. R is very empowering. When package updates break my code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Graduate Student (Ecology) Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T14:14:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested If I stop using it for a time, I forget too much More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Excel No Usually Interactive data exploration Need to google too often General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SQL Basic 1953 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Uruguay Consulting Ing. Retired 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:16:27Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Coworker recommended R Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It's just fucking great! NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Doctoral Candidate Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T14:16:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Coworker recommended R Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually It's just fucking great! NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau Excel 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Doctoral Candidate Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T14:20:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Open source Nothing Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same LaTeX LaTeX 1958 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Education NA Student 2 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T14:30:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually FOSS Memory limitations General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, R R 1985 Man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Utilities NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T14:31:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 7 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually The versatility. I can build dashboards, visualizations, manipulate data, automate reports with RMarkdown and do statistical analysis all in one tool. Can't think of anything. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, To build regular reports for my business partners I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, Tableau SAS 1986 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) People Analytics Leader/Statistician Statistician 12 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-07T14:32:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Never NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, gis Anaconda, spyder 5 10 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Python, R Java 1984 man mediterranean Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Research NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:34:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 NA No Usually Ease of use Can be slow sometimes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS, Tableau R 1997 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine NA Statistician NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:34:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, SQL Server No Usually Flexibility and the community package dependency General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating presentation slides, MS word reports I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 7 I expect it to increase R Visual Basic 1990 male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Chile Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Business Intelligence and Data Science Professional Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T14:36:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never easily programable tasks for working with data NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts not sharing I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R I am just getting started learning programming 1988 m White NA Angola Research merry christmas Researcher 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:38:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The seemingly unlimited possibilities and packages that help realize those possible analyses Base R syntax is not at all intuitive and makes it easy to make silly typo and syntax mistakes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Stata R 1990 NA Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:38:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually How fast it is to do data cleaning and manipulation in tidyverse Weird error messages and difficult debugging. Also markdown compiling slowly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Making PDF reports but not using pagedown (just latex) I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation NA 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R TI-BASIC 1981 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Education NA Educator 0 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:40:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually fun to code for a non-computer scientist R version and package version issues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda 2 4 I expect it to decrease R, SQL Visual Basic 1961 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA NA NA Neutral NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-07T14:40:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually I like the tidyverse and the ecosystem that makes things more easy to be applied in real life situations lack of production use case awareness in DS community General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS Excel 1984 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Romania Information Technologies Data Scientist Statistician 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:44:35Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually The reproducibility of methods/ability to apply code to multiple data sets Learning R syntax and interpreting errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1997 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Research Research Assistant in Chemical Ecology Lab Student 5 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:45:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Ruby, Tableau, C# Ruby 1988 Male White, Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Viz Lead Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:45:51Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 University class, met asynchronously It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau, RMarkdown; will learn SPSS next year Yes Usually Using it for statistical analysis; plus I just think it's cool to be able to write code. I'm still a beginner and I often find it difficult to understand suggestions in StackOverflow and other online assists. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, Various books on R I've bought General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts So far it's only been through homework results sent to professors and fellow students I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating homework submissions; I really like RMarkdown! I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, Tableau I am just getting started learning programming 1949 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Retired and a student for a third degree; I plan to work part time in Psychological Research upon graduation NA Student 5 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T14:47:28Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually code is pretty intuitive/close to plain English; all the functionality of data reading/cleaning/analyzing/visualizing, version control, even app development is all so neatly brilliantly contained in RStudio! it's a one-stop shop!; documentation and online community is fantastic reaching to find something negative, it's just all good! but maybe package sprawl? it can be overwhelming to try to solve a problem and the first 4 stack overflow solutions use 4 different (sometimes conflicting) packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1991 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America non-profit data scientist Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T14:48:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1982 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Tidyverse Speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1982 Man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistician Statistician 2 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:48:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Databricks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually Functional + OO building packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), RViews top-40 NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA 3 5 I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1971 NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Manager of Data Science Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T14:52:41Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I am always learning Time to learn Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Statistical, visualization and data manipulation None General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 10 I expect it to increase Java, R, Ruby, Rust FORTRAN,COBOL NA female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Military NA System Engineer 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-07T14:53:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually The online community help. Nothing, the problem is usually user error. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month I look at other peoples work I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS, SPSS Excel 1985 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Rangeland Ecologist Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T14:56:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidyverse, graphics, shiny Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server 4 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS C/C++ 1994 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bangladesh Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T15:01:12Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning to use the R command line user interface I don't use R any more Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 10 SPSS NA Occasionally NA I can used it with out payment. community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel SPSS NA NA NA Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Venezuela NA NA None NA Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:05:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Big community/free software NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1988 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Austria Financial Services and Activities Quantitative Risk Modelling Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T15:06:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Dropbox I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, STATA Excel 1988 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research PhD student Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T15:12:00Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials, Bioinformatic 3 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is Interfaz rcommander NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase None I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel 1982 Man Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Peru Not Employed Vet Medical professional 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2021-01-07T15:14:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I can complete Multiple tasks in my workflow in one environment Sometimes working out what's wrong takes me a while - lots of looking through stack overflow Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, R, Tableau Excel NA NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Information Technologies Visualisation designer Designer 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:14:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is open source, good graphics, fairly intuitive things that break when versions change General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) I don't share. Work alone I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week to keep my code organized in a nice document I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, Visual Basic, ColdFusion Pascal 1957 female White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) United States of America Used to be government, but now I'm retired retired! Retired 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:15:10Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually It is free My skills aren't what they should be, which is frustrating for me. But that's me, not you. :) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts community.rstudio.com reports published by my agency I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS, Tableau ha! I'm really old. Cobol 1970 NA White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Director of Research Researcher 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:15:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Power BI Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1985 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Turkey Transportation Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 600 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T15:20:18Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1992 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Israel Financial Services and Activities Reseaech assistant Researcher 10 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T15:21:15Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Is my first experience in programming Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and power compared to excel, and the packages and community compared to SPSS Lack of confidence that I have the most elegant / simple solution as there are many ways to solve a problem General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Not sharing I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None R 1971 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Spain Information Technologies Business planning Management 0 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-07T15:26:11Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities No one else in my org to learn from or with More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, ETL and spatial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually I find it intuitive Everyone else wants python - especially in production General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors knitr reports & shiny apps I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, processing engine for non technical coworkers I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Model/Data delivery via API JupyterLab 3.0, flask 2 4 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Transportation Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:26:45Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually its easy! there is no hard type form to improve performance Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Julia, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Matlab 1997 male Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Chile bank engineer Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T15:29:18Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Google Sheets and Libre Office Calc No Usually I feel like learning all the time I use R, and I like learning That the learning curve is somewhat steep to the time I have available to dedicate Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1977 Feminine White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Education Biology technician Technician 30 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:31:28Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 3 6 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA I have not found videos showing how to use many packages and what to expect. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) I don't trust what I'm doing so I don't share I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel C/C++ 1943 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Adjunct Professor Researcher 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:33:26Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Survey analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, SPSS Yes Usually The ease of finding resources to guide what I want to achieve Explanation of the functions are not easy to understand for people with no statistics or maths background General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1982 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Nigeria Research Research and Business Intelligence Specialist Researcher 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:36:25Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Stata R 1985 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine Associate Research Consultant Consultant or Advisor 2 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T15:37:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually speed, graphic and data capabilities output to corporate branded reporting General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, creating for reports I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month delivering models to clients I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic Basic (a long time ago) 1970 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Insurance Partner Consultant or Advisor 50 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T15:45:19Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, SPSS, Mplus I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is Good visualisation packages Not very intuitive to begin with General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, Published tutorials General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, SPSS, Mplus Excel 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD Candidate Student 2 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T15:46:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript BASIC / Pascal / Fortran 1970 m White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:46:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2001 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Switched from S+ Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Notepad +++ Yes Occasionally Data visualization, shiny web interfacr Speed and memory General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Courses I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Creating webbased data analyses I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Excel, R Splus, minitab 1959 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Indonesia Education Lecturer Statistician 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T15:50:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Short intro in academic seminar Was better at handling multi data.frame data Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis, Web scraping 5 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Knime Yes Usually Data management/data munging I got to fight using it, it’s a career hindernis General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Just some data analytics reports as html, or word or pdf I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Data entry, controlling data pipelines or actions based on data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Text processing, General purpose programming, application gluing, data extraction, web scraping Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code, Pycharm, Docker 3 8 I expect it to decrease Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R Excel 1982 Male European Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Information Technologies Senior technical consultant Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, PyCon conference Twitter English 2021-01-07T15:51:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning Databricks 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R C/C++ NA NA Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Transportation Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral RStudio::conf, PyCon conference LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T15:51:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 All of the above. I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Stack Overflow suggestions Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Python 1989 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not at all NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:53:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of the curriculum at university Tidy programming Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Delphi 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Health Care and Medicine Research Statistician Statistician 5 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T15:56:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Tidyverse ecosystem Inconsistency outside of Tidyverse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R, SAS, Tableau C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T15:59:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, GIS 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It allows me to do anything, its versatility. Other people's prejudices that is slow and hard to learn. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Twitter I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 3 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R, Ruby, SAS Basic 1964 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Ireland Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Project Manager Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T16:02:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Turbo Pascal 1978 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Financial Services and Activities Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-07T16:03:44Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, documentation of out BI environment nu using bookdown, secondly we user R in combinatie of Python tot analyse deployments in out sap system and generate rmarkdown pdf, finally we use R in combination with flexdasboards to generate a data quality dashboard per country (30) in total 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally An all in one solution which enables me to do almost everything from data manipulation, ML, AI and communication. The speed is amazing (sorry I love data.tables the most, next ggplot2) especially the logic behind these packages Finding and selecting the right packages, dependency on the maintainers and the risk they stop maintaining the package (already had this once with a vital package RSAP) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, bookdown.org General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, from courses EDX, coursera, udemy, manning Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, creating custom pdf for each deployment in SAP with all automated quality checks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, pysap for extracting data from sap and bring it to R with reticulate R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic, SAP ABAP Basic, fortran and pascal 1969 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Trade (Retail or Wholesale) BI lead coaching and managing my team 0 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-07T16:09:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling Visual Studio Code 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R Excel 1998 female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Insurance Junior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 50 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-07T16:10:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The logic of how to move data around makes sense. This includes how to pipe data with the pipe operator as well as mapping aesthetic attributes in ggplot2, for example. Putting applications into production can be difficult. Many tools we use are easy to use with Python but seem a lot more cumbersome with R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1972 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Consulting Director of Data Science Management 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T16:22:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually availability sometimes documentation is sparse, incomplete General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, work documents and team sites I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Visual Basic, Mathematica Fortran, APL 1951 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing NA R&D Engineer 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T16:22:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually There is so much I can accomplish with it! It can be hard to learn new skills in R, and takes a while for them to feel natural or intuitive. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Visualization, Machine learning Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1998 cisgender woman White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Insurance Junior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 60 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-07T16:29:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Pro Yes Usually data manipulation syntaxe leak off natives drivers for some techno like mongodb General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, mostly Twitter #rstats rmarkdown I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic R 1988 male north African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Algeria Financial Services and Activities in charge of studies Statistician 1 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-07T16:32:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE) No Usually Flexibility after using SPSS and SAS. weird spelling variations such as rownames versus row.names General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS FORTRAN 1950 male CanadiaN Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Not Employed NA Retired NA Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-07T16:34:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation NA 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Basic, Pascal 1977 Male Asian, White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Belgium Health Care and Medicine Engagement Manager Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T16:35:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually being able to connect each part of my workflow and make it reproducible the fact that I still have to use latex/pandoc templates so that I can output customized reports into .docx files. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating custom PDF and Word documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS R 1987 Woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Statistical Research Associate Statistician 10 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Pharma conference RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T16:36:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R 2 4 I expect it to increase R C/C++ NA NA NA NA NA Not Employed NA Data scientist or analyst NA NA NA Email English 2021-01-07T16:38:10Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I really like plotting with R I like least the fact that, sometimes, there are Many packtages for a same application General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1994 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Senegal Financial Services and Activities NA Student NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T16:45:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I was personally interested quite easy i'd say More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually me knowing it which means i can do things quickly. also quite like the possibilities from shiny, rmarkdown etc. clippy from readxl General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora NA Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same 15 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R PHP 1988 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Professional and Business Services NA Consultant or Advisor NA NA NA NA English 2021-01-07T16:52:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Pro, Visual Studio Code with R Extenstion No Usually Not only are the capabilities within R amazing, but the community behind R itself and packages is very welcoming to both new and experienced users. "Only a handful of colleagues in my organization can understand and help me with technical issues, as I am often referred to as the ""R"" guru in my organization" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-Weekly (not quite social media but perhaps it belongs there) Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Complex simulations for life sciences I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Clinical trials RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, R Java 1979 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Principal Research Scientist Statistician 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Pharma conference RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T16:55:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually The community Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R, SAS Excel 1992 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Postdoctoral Research Associate Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-07T16:56:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Databricks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, PowerBI No Usually vectorization It's too specific as a statistical language, other languages outperform it General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Rviews Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to decrease five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, ETL Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau C/C++ 1994 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Mexico Consumer Packed Goods Analytics Manager Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-07T17:02:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy to use with tidyverse + super for data processing + analysis - General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SQL Excel 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 50 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T17:04:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually It has a package for (almost) everything; stats friendly syntax; helpful community Cannot avoid using an arrow key. It slows things down. After typing the function arguments, it's annoying that I have to use an arrow key to move the cursor to one character to the right and type the pipe. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1986 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Singapore Research NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T17:05:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Widely used so fairly easy to find stackoverflow answers for my needs NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SQL R 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Programmer/Analyst II Data scientist or analyst 50 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-07T17:10:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Flexibility, Amount of packages <- General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com LinkedIn Email, Ppt I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda 2 2 I expect it to stay the same Python, R C/C++ 1980 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Manufacturing Senior Manager Connected Data & Analytics Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T17:16:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Great functional-like approach It is not clear how to itegrate solutions in R to company services General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Software development Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, PyCharm 3 7 I expect it to stay the same R, C# C/C++ 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Finland Research NA Data scientist or analyst 2 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T17:20:30Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding what R flavor to use according to the problem to solve More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis, Diagram production, book production, software solution development 5 7 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Serverless microservices Yes Occasionally Native vectorisation, very good IDE RStudio, package richness, inclusive approach, open source mindset, meta programming Documentation could be improved, lack of recipe. Email lists such as r-help, My own way - micro example to understand deeply the root cause CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, My own experiments Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, R-bloggers I expect it to stay the same 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, White book creation I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Artefact web apps, junk able, temporary use webapps I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month AI Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 3 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, Javascript, PHP, R C/C++ 1966 Male White Software engineer + MBA business management France Financial Services and Activities Enterprise Architect Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T17:21:14Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Visualization 2 6 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), stata Yes Usually easy to find examples difficult syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, stata fortran 1957 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Health Care and Medicine research Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T17:22:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Powerful modeling and visualization is simple Installing and configuration in non-traditional environments (eg, Raspberry pi) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month System automation and database connection Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R BASIC 1971 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Financial Services and Activities Distinguished Engineer Software developer 4 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T17:25:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), SPSS, Tableau I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is Analysis data Build application General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase Fifteen I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase R, SPSS R 1994 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Morocco Research Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-07T17:33:07Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server No Usually It's immediate interactive nature Dependency management General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Confluence I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Confluence pages with conflr:: I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Pipeline dev Anaconda, Conda, RStudio Server Pro 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Perl 1978 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Principal Bioinformatics Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T17:34:03Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally opensource some syntactic properties General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Ruby APL 1955 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Not Employed GIS specialist Retired NA No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T17:34:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually power and readability (if tidyverse) reproducibility, not being able to share with SAS users General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Spyder 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, R PHP 1988 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Health Care and Medicine Biostatistician Statistician 1.5 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2021-01-07T17:37:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Finding insights Remembering names of similar purpose packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic, Dbase3 Fortran 1958 Male Tamilian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Energy Consultancy Consultant Consultant or Advisor 50 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T17:52:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to make R code performant More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis, Creating Shiny dashboards 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Powerful and concise. Great visualizations. Pipe No GPU support General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1992 Male White, Middle Eastern Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Egypt Financial Services and Activities Quantitative Researcher Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T17:52:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities quasiquotation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Natively vectorized computation; pipes memory allocation errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_date.html Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python, R Java 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Japan Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T17:58:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Tidyverse ecosystem Inconsistency outside of Tidyverse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R, SAS, Tableau C/C++ 1985 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Manufacturing Data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T18:01:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 5 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The community and the focus on data science Too many ways to do the same thing. Finding the simplest or fastest takes a lot of research. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Github issues Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Sharing results with colleagues as html files I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, CRUD application I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Conda, R, RStudio Server 3 6 I expect it to increase Python, R Excel 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Professional and Business Services Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-07T18:05:48Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility and great community support NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts export for R Markdown and just making screenshots I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SQL, M (PowerQuery) Visual Basic 1982 male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Ukraine Gamedev Analyst Statistician 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-07T18:15:32Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Educational analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Speed, power in using large data sets, ease of use I haven't really thought about it. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Books community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1951 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Education Casual Data Coordinator Educator 1 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T18:16:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It is easy to learn and it produces neat statistical result and interesting visualization features I am unable to keep up with new packages and function updates Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1993 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) South Africa Research Masters Student Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T18:16:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually one stop shopping for most of my needs "NA" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same """five""" Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease Excel, Matlab, R, SAS SAS 1979 M NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T18:20:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Flexibility Integration with production ready systems General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1981 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Professional and Business Services Director of innovation Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T18:24:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1994 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Occasionally its flexibility that the structure of R is not clearly explained in the documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R FORTRAN 1951 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Professional and Business Services Statistical Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T18:24:35Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 as a part of a course with minimal explanations, looking to take a formal course to improve my skills It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 6 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually I like its capabilities to do statistical analysis It's difficult to find free training. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase None I am just getting started learning programming 1971 female Prefer not to answer Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Student Student 3 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T18:47:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 8 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Pro No Occasionally Clean interface and packages Packages stop working General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Fortran NA Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Computational scientist Statistician 20 No, not really RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-07T18:50:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was limited with excel and needed to learn new ways to solve problems I had never coded before... So everything at first More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Occasionally I'm not limited with what I want to accomplish; I can bind or call other languages directly, it's fast enough, and it's second nature to me at this point. "Nothing in particular; it seems like there's a movement behind the whole ""tidy"" thing that I don't really subscribe to. Not the outcomes/normalization/splitting etc .. just the sentiment by a lot of the community that it's tidyverse or nothing..." Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Three Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, I've built everything from analysis breakdowns to proof of concepts for APIs to tutorials and websites at this point. It's great. Thank you for the open source resource I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 2 6 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Ruby, Rust R 1983 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Financial Services and Activities Vice President, Portfolio Analytics and Risk Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T19:13:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 3 8 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually free syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda 2 6 I expect it to stay the same R Javascript 1983 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Korea, South Education Graduate Student Student NA NA NA Email English 2021-01-07T19:27:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Tableau Yes Usually reproducibility; generous open-source community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating presentation slides, creating reports in Word I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Stata 1990 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) data analytics specialist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-07T19:33:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use it in teaching biostatistics Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Teaching 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Occasionally 1. So many powerful statistical methods are available; 2. huge availability of online help; 3. coding for reproducibility So much to learn! Hard to keep up (ie, everyone is in the tidyverse now...) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, course website (not publicly available) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Basic and Fortran circa 1978! 1962 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 4 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T19:43:16Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course My work required me to use a programming language (data too big for excel), but I could have chosen anything though so R specifically wasn't required, I just chose it I didn't understand what packages were, so I didn't use ANY when I started. I didn't understand that some packages were very well maintained and reliable and for basic stuff. More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Occasionally I use lists a lot and they are very powerful, as is taking advantage of vectorized functions "sometimes the ""lazy"" variable interpretation can make bugs difficult to notice/troubleshoot" Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, package developers via github issues Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Scientific conferences (posters, talks) I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month creating easy-to-read html formatted notes (for myself, mostly) about how I did the analysis0 I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Science outreach (interactive data each person views on phone instead of formal presentations) I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, bash Visual Basic 1987 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research postdoctoral fellow Researcher 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T19:48:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually The piping syntax makes analysis and data manipulation really easy The error handling and debugging is really difficult to handle Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Java 1996 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Developer Software developer 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Pharma conference community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-07T19:50:47Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA NA By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually graphics NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 NA I expect it to increase Excel, Julia fortran NA m Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Korea, South Education professor emeritus Educator NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2021-01-07T19:51:38Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), SAS, Shiny Server, SPSS, Tableau No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Julia, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau SAS NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2021-01-07T19:53:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week General Programming R, Visual Studio Code 5 9 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1993 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Senior Research Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Rweekly.org English 2021-01-07T19:55:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Digital Humanities 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community of people and programmers around R Occasional feeling that I another language like Python could get me further in my goals. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, R User groups I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Non-blogdown website I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education History Lecturer Educator 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-07T20:03:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Easy to learn. Not able to develop system application and no such help from R community. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Web application I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1991 Male Indian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Education Data Engineer Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T20:16:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau R 1990 NA White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Natural Resources and Mining Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T20:26:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Wrangling data for loop General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R R 1993 male Asian One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Korea, South Research Graduate student Student 20 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-07T20:41:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse's clear, explicit syntax Older/non-Tidyverse packages use traditional R datatypes that often have poor documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing, Genomics Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Mathematica 1990 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Biotechnology Applications Scientist Researcher 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-07T20:52:33Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Didn’t knew how to code More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau No Usually It’s easy access to new programmers, you can find a broad set of toolkits. Analyzing images is quite hard General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Shinyapps.io, Amazon web services EC2 that the organization owns I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Operation and logistics technological tools I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R, Tableau R 1995 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Colombia Accommodation and Food Services Operations research coordinator Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T20:57:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2005 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Downloading and installing the software Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally fungibility side effects General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts my company does not allow sharing I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to stay the same R R 1968 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research research chemist Researcher 10 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-07T21:03:34Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Too many varying sources of information Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Coming from a non programmer background, it has been fairly easy to pickup the basic syntax and commands. It is quite logical to code. The multiple different sources of information that all come with different answers to solving a problem. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code, PieCharm 3 6 I expect it to stay the same None I am just getting started learning programming 1985 Male White Some college or university, no college degree Australia Information Technologies System Engineer Engineer/Technician 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-07T21:08:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Go, Python, R C/C++ 1988 m Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Taiwan Information Technologies Data Scientist Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-07T21:20:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 JupyterHub, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually open source development conflation of Rstudio and base R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation Jupyter Notebooks 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R Javascript 1987 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Arts and Entertainment analyst Statistician 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup advanced r book club English 2021-01-07T21:42:59Z None By myself using a book or online documentation that is not part of a formal course I want to do statistical analyses Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization Python Finding proper packages to use NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization NA 4 6 I expect it to increase None Python NA NA White NA NA Not Employed NA Student NA NA NA NA English 2021-01-07T22:14:38Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Easy and fast usage How the error sometimes are not clear enough Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Rmarkdown in e-mails and presentations I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 3 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R R 1992 Female Hispanic/Latinx, Mixed race brazilian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Research Research assistant Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T22:20:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally R studio and the ever expanding packages that you guys produce Its deployability and memory limits General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Data manipulation tools I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Spyder 4 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Tableau R 1995 Male Asian Some college or university, no college degree Singapore Health Care and Medicine Data analyst intern Student 4 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T22:22:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, linear programming and control charts 5 10 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Le Sphinx Yes Usually It is easier and practical to communicate research results with people that working in decision-making areas no answer General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month NA Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, SPSS, Tableau, PL/SQL PL/SQL and SQL 1976 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Professional and Business Services Process improvement analyst Management 3 Yes, definitely R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T22:29:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, General programming 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Occasionally The flexibility of the language That the tidyverse people are busy bees reinventing everything about R and creating a separate dialect that makes it difficult to share code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, General purpose GUI I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month General purpose programming Anaconda, Conda 4 9 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Excel, Python, R R 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Professional and Business Services Data Scientist Developer Software developer 2 No, not really UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2021-01-07T22:33:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization, GIS 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The community Loading large datasets completely to memory Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, GitHub issues page for the package, or equivalent, when available CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 1 1 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS Pascal and BASIC 1988 NA Hispanic/Latinx One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Guatemala Research NA Student 2 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-07T22:43:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Community Lack of standardization (except tidyverse) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Java 1979 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Utilities Data scientists Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T22:46:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, LibreOffice No Usually A million possible paths to take. You name it and I can make it happen in R. I can scrape the web, or do text analysis, or experiment with the latest machine learning methods, or create great visualizations, or...or....or..... I have to have an Internet connection to do any work, because for the life of me I can't remember how to do basic tasks. I am constantly using Google to look up that simple thing I just did last month, for example. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results into powerpoint presentations. Lately, e-mailing rmarkdown reports. I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating presentation slides, html reports for internal distribution I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R C/C++ 1977 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Start-up President Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T22:46:28Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is It’s a one stop place for me to learn about gathering and manipulating data. It does have a longer, then what I consider average, learning curve. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Text processing Visual Studio Code 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, Swift Swift 1952 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Retired NA None 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T22:47:54Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Google Sheets/Drive No Occasionally "How simple it is for someone who does not identify as a ""developer""" "NA" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Survey analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau Visual Basic 1991 M White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not really NA R bloggers English 2021-01-07T22:53:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested While starting there was lack of knowledge of the possibility in R and resources available. More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The communities that are welcoming and ready for help. Annd it's free. Base R sometimes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R C/C++ 1993 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research Associate Researcher 2 Yes, definitely R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), R Medicine conference Twitter English 2021-01-07T22:55:01Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Packages, and community n/a community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Text processing Anaconda 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel Java NA 1962 Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Research Owner Consultant or Advisor 1 Neutral R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-07T22:55:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually How fast the community develops and gelo each other The performance with really big datasets General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, YouTube channels Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Databricks, Google Colabs 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1982 Male Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Brazil Arts and Entertainment Research Manager Statistician 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T22:56:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning to use the R command line user interface Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 7 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) No Usually It makes data accessible Large learning curve like any programming language General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Excel 1992 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Conservation Analyst Researcher 2 Neutral NA Facebook English 2021-01-07T23:05:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Undergraduate statistics I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Using pipes to sequence code commands NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1989 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-07T23:10:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, nvim-R Yes Usually Large array of packages, active community, easy of use, great visualizations It is not super efficient General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating github Readme files I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Teaching I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Perl 1986 Male Admixed Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Research Postdoctoral researcher Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T23:12:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Doctoral course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Occasionally The online support forums NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1985 Female Black/African, Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Health systems researcher Researcher 5 Neutral NA Facebook English 2021-01-07T23:21:54Z None By myself using a book or online documentation that is not part of a formal course I want to do statistical analyses Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Machine learning/modeling NA Using R's Documentation NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None I am just getting started learning programming NA NA NA NA Thailand Not Employed NA None NA No, not at all NA Email English 2021-01-07T23:23:30Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Python Yes Occasionally Very helpful for Analytics and still to explore more by using more in Office work As of now none General search websites such as Google and Yahoo community.rstudio.com Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1985 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) India Tourism Deputy Manager Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T23:27:47Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Needed open-source alternative to Matlab Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually data.table and ggplot2 Indecipherable error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1989 Male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Associate Director Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-07T23:29:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Tableau No Usually Flexibility. Open source. Nearly endless possibilities. It hasn’t been my #1 tool since 2009, so there always seems to be a lot of catch-up I need to do to get back up to speed. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau R 1989 Cis Woman Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research NA Consultant or Advisor 3 Yes, definitely UseR conference LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T23:29:41Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took R Materials aren't in my native language More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, SAS, Tableau Yes Usually variety of features python community know so little about it Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, ppt I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month reading Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau C/C++ 1988 female Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Brazil Financial Services and Activities data scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T23:30:26Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 8 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Statistical analyses Speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, R 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R, SPSS R 1991 Male Black/African One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Professional and Business Services Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-07T23:36:19Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Visualizing data NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Ruby, SQL LISP NA Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education NA Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-07T23:36:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I am able to find R documentation and stackoverflow answers easily and they are mostly comprehensive, except for tidyverse documentation. It runs on RAM and hence limited for large data application unless cluster/server is used. Also the fact that R has put less focus on Deep Learning capabilities. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R package documentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables, First cut app building I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS C/C++ 1989 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Information Technologies Analytics Associate Manager Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-07T23:37:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect Yes Usually Cheat sheets for support Can’t think of any Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, RPubs.com, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Still learning I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, R R 1980 Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Kenya Health Care and Medicine Consultant Medical professional 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-07T23:46:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1985 On the job NA Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS pascal 1959 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Epidemiologist / Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 1000 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-08T00:01:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, SAS, Shinyapps.io, SPSS Yes Usually Community Learning a different R package is like learning another programming language again. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Created a template for reproducible HTML report I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Java 1983 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) New Zealand Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Modelling analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-08T00:03:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Academic publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase NA SPSS 1983 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Education Assistant professor Researcher NA Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-08T00:05:00Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses R Materials aren't in my native language Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually visualization english language General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Visual Basic Excel 1973 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research research engineer research assistant 0 I'm not sure NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T00:10:15Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Flexibility I feel it can do anything I need data wise - but boy learning all these packages is time consuming and expensive $1000’s in books and MOOC I’d love to just understand HOW it works it feels a bit black box General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, RMarkdown I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, R Excel 1973 Cis female Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Professional and Business Services Lead Digital Analytics Consultant Consultant or Advisor 3 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-08T00:15:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS, Power BI Yes Usually Easy to remember functions and their arguments (of course, after familiarizing and using it often). RDocumentaion is fantastic NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R NA Female Asian NA United States of America Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 No, not at all NA Email English 2021-01-08T00:17:33Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Visual Basic Fortran 1972 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Belgium Research NA Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Google Chrome English 2021-01-08T00:21:34Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Endless possibility from the open source community Little lack of consistency with other common languages such as Python or Javascript (e.g. index starting with 1 rather than 0) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda 4 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1984 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2021-01-08T00:22:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, SAS, SPSS No Occasionally You can do anything You have to do everything General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month API data scrapping NA 2 6 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1986 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistician Statistician 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T00:48:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Medicine Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Python, R Java 1994 Male Jewish, Israeli Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Israel Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Research Assistant Data scientist or analyst 4 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-08T00:55:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server Yes Usually The community The quirkiness of the syntax Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda 3 6 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Matlab, Python, R Matlab 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Marketing Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T01:15:21Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Never Packages Memory demanded General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, R 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R NA NA NA NA NA Financial Services and Activities NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely NA NA English 2021-01-08T01:19:03Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Power, speed, flexibility, great community Takes time to learn; not as fast as Tableau from some of my work tasks General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Internal shiny server; PowerPoint I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Self service analysis portal for co-workers I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Tableau Excel 1974 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Trade (Retail or Wholesale) Global Head of Organisation Design Consultant or Advisor 2 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T01:22:26Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis, Sports Prediction 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually The comprehensive packages available for data manipulation, analysis, and statistical exploration The rather chaotic system (using the term very loosely) for changing packages, with excessive unanticipated breaking changes, and inexplicable deprecations. This significantly increases the cost of supporting production systems based on R General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic, Fortran BASIC Version 4. a.k.a. Dartmouth Basic 1950 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Consultant Statistician 0 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-08T01:23:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Live courses taught remotely (school then professional development) I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually Simple syntax and efficient processing NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Generating reproducible Word documents and pdfs to fulfill data requests I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Tableau Python 1995 Female White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Professional and Business Services Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Google news suggestion English 2021-01-08T01:40:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The diversity of applications/tools Installing packages can be very difficult Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1971 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Directeur de recherches CNRS Researcher 2 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-08T01:40:17Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The diversity of applications/tools Installing packages can be very difficult Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1971 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Directeur de recherches CNRS Researcher 2 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-08T01:47:02Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Javascript, R C/C++ 1993 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Urban Planning NA Researcher 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T01:50:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually A complete and free package with incredible community members NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, SPSS, Visual Basic Basic 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Austria Travel Data and project management Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-08T02:06:52Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Financial analysis 4 7 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Visual Studio Code No Usually Simplicity and good selection of Base packages R's performance on large serial numerical tasks General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Text processing, We scraping and Animation Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 3 5 I expect it to decrease C/C++, Julia, Matlab, Python, R R 1995 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Research Research Assistant Researcher 5 Neutral UseR conference LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T02:08:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1998 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Linux user with few options Logic of oop, data in R, documentation, error msgs More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Flexibility and extensibility Memory management and debugging General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Instructing students in my grad stat courses I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Text processing, Web scraping Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, SAS, Fortran, perl, bash, sex, awk, grep, regexp Fortran 1966 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA My Google Android news feed English 2021-01-08T02:17:03Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Managing packages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the language; packages... General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, R C/C++ 1969 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) India Information Technologies Consulting Consultant or Advisor 2 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-08T02:17:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Increases efficiency Colleagues aren’t using it Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Sharing with colleagues who don’t use R I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS Excel 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Natural Resources and Mining Fisheries Biologist Researcher 3 No, not really NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T02:42:06Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally RStudio IDE NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month other programming NA 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Python, R Netlogo 1990 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research NA Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA r-bloggers English 2021-01-08T02:42:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Interactions in complex shiny apps More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro Yes Occasionally Best langage ever I would like features of Shiny Server Pro for any number of simultaneous users General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to decrease Excel, Python, R Visual Basic 1995 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Professional and Business Services R developer Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA r-bloggers English 2021-01-08T02:52:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Understand the best approach to learn R. There is a lot of material online, but different approaches (e.g. tidyverse vs base R) Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually RStudio, Community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, keep it for myself I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Switzerland Professional and Business Services Management Consultant Consultant or Advisor NA Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-08T02:56:23Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually community All nine circles of the R inferno General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, The manual, R help pages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 7 I expect it to increase Python, R Java 1988 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research NA Researcher 4 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T02:58:10Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually i) flexibility in the programming language; II) exploring grammar of graphics debugging Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, Swift Python 1973 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Education NA Educator 0 Neutral UseR conference Email English 2021-01-08T03:03:02Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I am happy about the tidyverse, otherwise I would be lost. On tidyverse I like the consistency and the many opportunities it offers to clean and manipulate data. For me, coming from SPSS and Stata, the variety of packages is quite confusing. It is mostly not easy to understand how the data has to be structured to use some packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, presentations I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SPSS, Stata SPSS 1981 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Research Scientific assistant Data scientist or analyst 3 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-08T03:08:30Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 statsquest, youtube videos , blogs I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Server Yes Usually great stats packages, less verbose compared to python NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, backend, webscraping, server stuff, scripting Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Go, Java, Python, R, kotlin Python 1999 male Asian, Asian-Indian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Information Technologies Software Engineer/data scientist Software developer 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-08T03:08:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Medicine 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, SPSS Yes Occasionally because you write the code bit by bit you really know what you are doing (in contrast to SPSS where you can click on choices without really thinking step by step) incompatibility because of changes in packages, updates etc. and having to start over again with your code General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, text books, DataCamp General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month still learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, Qlik Sense SPSS 1962 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Health Care and Medicine professor Researcher 1 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-08T03:09:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually the full integration from importing data to reporting the unavoidable clash between base-r user and tidyverse user General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1993 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research specialist research technician Statistician 5 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-08T03:10:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day NA Data cleaning or manipulation 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Big amount of libraries for different applications NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Fortran and Basic 1958 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Germany Chemistry NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-08T03:10:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Loading data More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely New statistical methods are often first implemented in R (at least in the research field of ecology and evolution). Package management is much better than in e.g. python. Actually, the tidyverse. Sorry for saying that. But e.g. I think that learning proper subsetting via square brackets [ ] is more useful than filter because it is more universally used across data structures. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating reproducible reports for scientific articles which I put on e.g. github I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning Text editor + command line 3 4 I expect it to increase Python, R, bash (if you consider this a language) R 1981 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Research Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T03:11:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1992 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Dependability Running time Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R Basic 1960 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Professor Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T03:23:12Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Ecosystem. Becoming a universal languge (not only for statistical analysis) Not so popular as python (especially for job search) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Visual Studio Code 1 2 I expect it to stay the same R SPSS 1992 Man White and PhD Russia Health Care and Medicine Deputy Director Administration 4 Yes, definitely R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference Rbloggers English 2021-01-08T03:25:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 RMarkdown books, cheat sheets, StackOverflow, R documentation, Julia Silge and David Robinson's YouTube channel I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning coding without a background, and a little bit the R syntax too More than once a day Windows (loccally) and Linux (cluster) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics, Medicine, Structural biology 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Dplyr functions are more powerful than most people think. I love how readable a pipe becomes, even to a layperson, if the object names make sense too. Constant fear that I'll have backwards incompatibility with an old code chunk. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Youtube Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase three Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Genomics, Medicine, Running specific analysis software written in Python Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Research PhD student Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Newsfeed English 2021-01-08T03:31:43Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Finding proper packages to use Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, I use R for automated documentation (system config db --> config analysis and report) 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, DBeaver Yes Usually Things are made and work the way I would do it, too, so I can learn and understand plus most of the time there is already a great package for what I need. Some of the error messages. And I cannot completely convince it to _only use English_ please - my environment is mostly german - programming and messages not in English are just annoying. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating custom Word documents I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R, Visual Basic long time ago: commmodore 64 basic v2 :-) 1973 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Professional and Business Services Management Consultant Consultant or Advisor 1 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T03:34:44Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Data visualization NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab R 1991 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Italy Research PhD student Student 0 No, not really RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-08T03:35:36Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Usually It's flexiblity "Too many packages without a clear classification to their goals (yes, there are taskviews, but I think that a sort of ""search engine"" based on goals of packages should be better). Sometimes packages have a very short help" General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, stackoverflow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documents using bookdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Basic 1968 NA NA One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree Italy Professional and Business Services NA Statistician 1 Yes, definitely NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T03:44:53Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I typically only export and show data visualizations. I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1978 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Research Associate scientist Researcher 0 No, not really R Medicine conference Email English 2021-01-08T03:57:01Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Data wrangling with tidyverse, data exploration, ggplot Most of my coworkers use Python and our main software is all written in Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 2 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS R 1979 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Federal Technology Consulting Managing Consultant Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA Google Feed English 2021-01-08T04:11:13Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually The logic behind the language Documentation is overwhelming sometimes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views Email I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Just exploring so far I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Machine learning Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Fortran 1978 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Greece Utilities Managing Director Management 3 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-08T04:14:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually The community, ggplot2, magrittr's pipe, the web interfacing (with pkgdown, bookdown & blogdown + shiny) Memory gluttony as default making people butcher things. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, from questions on Stack Overflow and R4DS slack Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code, PyCharm 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS R 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Information Technologies Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T04:17:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro No Occasionally Versatility Resolving issues when developing packages. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R Javascript 1986 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Financial Services and Activities Analyst Financial professional 3 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Email English 2021-01-08T04:23:30Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Not share I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS R 1984 Male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Belarus Manufacturing Engener Researcher 200 Yes, somewhat UseR conference Twitter English 2021-01-08T04:24:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Usually Intuitive Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1986 Female Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data science manager Data scientist or analyst 10 Yes, somewhat NA NA English 2021-01-08T04:29:24Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Visualization 4 5 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same None R 1981 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Research Researcher Researcher 1 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T04:38:35Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Power Learning syntax General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1976 Male White Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Italy Health Care and Medicine MD Medical professional 0 Neutral NA Facebook English 2021-01-08T04:39:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 6 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Occasionally Community Performance General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase NA R 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Research Studies engineer Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T04:39:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Julia, R C/C++ 1971 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Education NA Researcher 2 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T04:43:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), not sure which version of rstudio No Rarely Free, open, powerful stats and visuals Amount of packages and ways of doing the same thing. Data/table/syntax concept is sometimes confusing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, work documents I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Fortran ! Korn shell Visual Basic 1983 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) physical scientist Researcher 4 No, not really NA Google feed English 2021-01-08T04:46:57Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Its computing power The interface IDE and packages keeps of updating frequently Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0 4 7 I expect it to increase Javascript, R Excel 1986 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Bhutan Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Forestry officer Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T04:50:55Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, QGIS Yes Usually abundance of packages its speed General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Raspberry Pi R 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1989 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Research Assistant Professor Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T04:52:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Econometrics and building dashboards 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Simplicity and clarity. Abundance of packages and support. Feels natural to me now. Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io, Written reports for clients I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data access on services Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 1 4 I expect it to decrease R Visual Basic 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Professional and Business Services COO Management 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T04:57:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually I like the packages and the dirrernt ways I can solve the same problem, e. G started off with caret but now looking into recipes in tidy models. Not keen on some of the syntax initially. I come from a SAS/SQL background. 2Gb df size potentially a bit limiting. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1981 Male White Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) United Kingdom Utilities Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 500 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-08T04:58:23Z None For self learning and to train others I am personally interested in R Data cleaning or manipulation Microsoft Excel Just getting started NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel Excel NA Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Nigeria Food Beverages Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Chrome English 2021-01-08T05:00:02Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Web-scraping 4 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RKWard No Rarely Shortness of syntax when compared to some other programming languages, such as Python. Inconsistency in some of the core R functions and opaque documentation for some of these. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Medicine Spyder; pip 3 6 I expect it to increase Python, R, Stata Stata 1986 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Research Epidemiologist Statistician 1 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-08T05:00:07Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely No need for programming background Case sensitiveness soemtimes makes me crazy when dealing with text General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase """five""" I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel 1986 Male Arabe Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Morocco Health Care and Medicine Financial reporting and Analysis Financial professional 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-08T05:01:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Graphics with ggplot Factor manipulation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS, Stata SAS 1979 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Consultant Consultant or Advisor 1 Neutral RStudio::conf RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T05:16:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Visualization, image processing 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Inkscape Yes Usually Ease of use after understanding and learning syntax's R is only helping those who have basic knowledge on the subject. I need to go somewhere for learning the desired topic and come back to R. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA NA Never -- I don't use Shiny NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel, R Excel 1987 Male Anglo Indian, INDIA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research Research Fellow Researcher 2 I'm not sure NA Email English 2021-01-08T05:26:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Flexibility NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Python Excel 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Research Psychometrician Researcher 2 No, not at all NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T05:33:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning 5 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is Flexible applications/uses No online “R for Dummies” General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Visual Basic, Cobol Excel 1970 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Australia Professional and Business Services Business Analyst Consultant or Advisor 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-08T05:42:52Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Occasionally Ease of use compared to python NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau, CSPro CSPro 1984 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) NA Public health sector Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T06:04:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses The many different ways you can do the same task with different syntax. More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Interactivity and RStudio IDE The different ways you can do the same task with different syntax. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to decrease Python, R C/C++ 1964 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Marketing Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 3 I'm not sure RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-08T06:10:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 7 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Community NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Machine learning Anaconda, Visual Studio Code 3 2 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, Python, R SPSS 1987 M Black/African High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Senegal Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA NA NA NA NA NA English 2021-01-08T06:11:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Open source NA Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts NA I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SAS R NA 1996 White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium NA NA NA NA Yes, somewhat NA Google English 2021-01-08T06:13:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The most useful thing is the many statistical packages available but it's active development and connections to many other tools and languages is reason why I've stuck with R and Rstudio. I don't need to learn that much about other tools/languages because there is probably an R package or API that can be used in Rstudio. Probably debugging common errors but this occurs with any programming language. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Go, Javascript, R R 1990 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Research Postdoctoral Researcher Researcher 3 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-08T06:17:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Fortran 1961 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 0 Neutral RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-08T06:23:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shiny Server, Vim Yes Usually Functional programming Error messages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Glue code R, Vim 1 1 I plan to stop using it C/C++, Javascript, Python, R, Lisp C/C++ NA NA Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) NA Financial Services and Activities Head of quant research Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T06:24:39Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Rbloggers Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 2 5 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau Python 1990 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Health Care and Medicine Evaluation analyst Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA Rbloggers English 2021-01-08T06:30:23Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually Access to statistical methods Developing complex programs General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Rmarkdown websites I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Workflow programming Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, R, RStudio Server, Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Python, R, Bash Python 1992 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Research Research analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T06:35:11Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA online course and on the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning the RStudio development environment More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 4 8 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), R Markdown, Bookdown Yes Occasionally reproducible results; publishing Need of administrative rights to install (sometimes the bin version on a flashdrive don´t help really much) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, bookdown.org (rstudio connect) I expect it to increase """five""" Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Fortran, Basic and Assembler for Burroughs B3.500 1949 male White Doctorate (in course) Brazil Research post-graduate student Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-08T06:40:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Open source Versioning General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation R, Shiny Server, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Norway Research Environmental geologist Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-08T06:44:38Z None By myself using a book or online documentation that is not part of a formal course I want to do statistical analyses Machine learning/modeling Microsoft Excel Learning the RStudio development environment NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Microsoft I am just getting started learning programming 1992 Man Black/African Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Cote d'Ivoire Research Student Researcher NA Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T06:45:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2003 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views NA I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SPSS Excel 1961 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Italy Education NA Researcher NA Yes, somewhat NA rbloggers English 2021-01-08T06:51:33Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel Yes I don't know what tidyverse is Automatized data cleaning and analyses NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, PHP, R, SPSS, Visual Basic Pascal 1976 Male White Some college or university, no college degree Netherlands Professional and Business Services Manager Operations Management 2 No, not at all NA Email English 2021-01-08T06:53:25Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Server Yes Usually It's gives beautiful colorful graphs and makes life easy once the commands are known for the type of analysis to do. Getting data arranged...how I wish there is a command that does arrangement of data. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts I save on my documents and share. I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1985 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) South Africa Not Employed PhD student Student 2 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-08T06:54:07Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 NA Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora NA Email I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1992 Man White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Data scientist or analyst NA No, not at all NA NA English 2021-01-08T06:58:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning on my own without a formal learning environment Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Immediate feedback, strong community, lots of answers in Stack Overflow and elsewhere. I wish I could learn it more quickly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Desktop Pro (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro 3 8 I expect it to increase R Excel 1966 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Director Data and Analytics Management 2 NA RStudio::conf, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Email English 2021-01-08T07:02:14Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually After learning how to use it, R documentation and community support really is better than for other languages. The focus of R on the areas it does well is encouraging. Less of a mature ecosystem for R across platforms for CI CD than many other major languages (including Python and Scala) Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to decrease Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Data integrity applications I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Text processing, API integration, web scraping Anaconda, PyCharm, docker, bitbucket 4 8 I expect it to increase Javascript, Python, R, Typescript R 1995 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Analyst Consultant or Advisor 2 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T07:02:42Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Power libraries for data science Too many versions of base R, need to update packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Text processing Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, R C/C++ 1978 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Hong Kong Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Statistician Statistician 0 Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T07:03:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau NA Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Documenting research I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it Excel, R, Tableau Stata 1987 Woman White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Education PhD candidate Student 1 No, not really R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T07:04:43Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS No I don't know what tidyverse is the control you have as a user, the documentation available, the mathematical logic behind it, the graphics,... Error messages that make no sense. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, in my teaching of statistics I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I plan to stop using it I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I plan to stop using it R, SPSS Matlab 1973 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Research Biostatistician Statistician 10 No, not really NA NA English 2021-01-08T07:04:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually R syntax is pretty simple and straight forward, despite the fact when I was starting it was rather challenging. The best thing about R is the open source nature around and the community that offers so many solutions Cannot think of anything right now. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to increase R R 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Netherlands Research PhD student Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T07:10:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually I am a statistician & quite simply enjoy coding analyses rather than using ‘drag & drop’/‘menu & click’ packages. The sheer breadth & depth of RStudio IDE can be a little daunting at this point but this is a minor quibble rather than major bugbear. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization NA 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Visual Basic R 1983 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United Kingdom Education Analyst (Education & Corporate) Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-08T07:38:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, Sql Excel 1975 Male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) United Kingdom Telecoms Root cause analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-08T07:49:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 College I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Quicksight Yes Usually dplyr NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Email I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1987 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Financial Services and Activities Manager Analytics Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, definitely UseR conference Email English 2021-01-08T07:51:30Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Software development 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's easy and fun to work with It can be slow General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1994 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Facebook English 2021-01-08T07:52:09Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 1995 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Sql server Yes Usually Flexiblity. Always are ways to do the kind of weird analysis I have in mind. Ongoing changes in dplyr and finding the best package for a job. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Bookdown and officedown I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1970 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Canada Research Senior consultant Researcher 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-08T08:11:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested The R-CPP interface and legacy logic from S Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually I enjoy the tidyverse. The lack of resources relating to working with multiple languages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, I use it as an intermediary in my Orgmode to Rmd to PDF workflow I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Machine learning, Text processing JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Matlab, Orgmode and Emacs with jedi 3 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Go, Javascript, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, Ruby, Rust C/C++ 1995 Male Asian, Indian (from the subcontinent) Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Iceland Research Doctoral Researcher Researcher 5 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international), PyCon conference Email English 2021-01-08T08:15:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Learning the RStudio development environment Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually User friendly most of the time. Not good with oops. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month To modify excel files Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 9 I expect it to increase Java, Python, R Visual Basic 1997 Female Asian High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Canada Education STUDENT and programmers assistant(work/study) Data scientist or analyst 1 Neutral NA Google English 2021-01-08T08:17:44Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA NA Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau No Occasionally Visualization and Statistical capability without loading extra libraries. Require 20 minutes every day to play and learn. Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0 5 10 I expect it to stay the same Java, Javascript, Python, Tableau C/C++ NA NA White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Education Statistic Mentor Educator NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference, PyCon conference RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T08:17:48Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It helped solved problems at my job Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Centralization of everything I need and the community Error descriptions General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Generating reports I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Medicine Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to stay the same R, SQL Matlab 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup, R Medicine conference, R Pharma conference Email English 2021-01-08T08:27:16Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 3 6 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, PHP, Python, R BASIC 1969 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United Kingdom Education University lecturer Educator 10 No, not really NA google English 2021-01-08T08:38:14Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types More than once a day All platforms Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Clinical trials 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually Package dependencies way easier to manage than Python. Bugs when updates to R/packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 3 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SQL SAS 1989 Male Honey Nut Cheerios Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Operations research Statistician 2 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-08T08:39:29Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 collaborating on research with someone who used R It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, automated reporting (Markdown) 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually open source; always evolving keeping up with changes to packages, new versions, and dependencies General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors I don't understand this question. I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month creating editable Word documents I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS SPSS 1989 female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Measurement Scientist Researcher 2 Neutral NA R-bloggers website English 2021-01-08T08:40:12Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau Excel NA Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Senegal Information Technologies Information Management Officer Statistician 0 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T08:41:08Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally I like understanding the code I've written. Non-uniformity of various conventions among different CRAN packages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R Excel 1984 Man White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-08T08:43:00Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 in a class that required R but didn't teach it I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 1991 male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research phd student Researcher 3 No, not really NA google articles English 2021-01-08T08:43:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Apache Hive-Spark-Hadoop stack Yes Usually power & readability of ETL code harder to productify than Python (from one script using tidyverse on one dataset to a reusable function) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, shared disk drive I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling, Machine learning, image processing Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, SAS, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Python, R, Scala Java 1983 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Belgium Transportation senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-08T08:52:34Z None Through an online course or courses (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I want to do statistical analyses Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Machine learning/modeling Microsoft Excel Just getting started NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA five I don't use R Markdown NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase NA I am just getting started learning programming NA NA NA NA NA Professional and Business Services NA NA NA No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-08T09:04:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Reproducibility of reports / analysis NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Visual Basic C/C++ 1980 male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Deputy Directory - Data and Client Services Management 0 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-08T09:24:55Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Managing packages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Clinical trials, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Good examples with functions to use and has rich and free resources available online to search Too many packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, SAS Excel 1988 M Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) China Insurance Lead Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 200 Yes, definitely R Finance conference From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-08T09:35:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job I thought it would open new career opportunities Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, JupyterHub 4 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel 1992 Male Hispanic/Latinx Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) Colombia Insurance Analista analítica Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA Google news English 2021-01-08T09:40:54Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 Base R learned in grad school, tidyverse learned on the job It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS, NVivo (I use R to clean up text transcripts or scrape data then use NVivo for qualitative data analysis) No Usually My work is portable - I'm not locked into one operating system or limited to one machine. Having to rework my scripts or personal R packages every couple years when dplyr or tidyr gets major changes. e.g. mutate_each became mutate_at became mutate(across()). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Reddit Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Only when there's been something I couldn't do in R (e.g. reading the text of ebook file types like epub and mobi) NA 4 10 I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, JMP Java 1988 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Education Manager / NTT faculty, practitioner track Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T09:55:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually That the simplest variable is an array. Updates messing everything up. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, PHP, R, SPSS Applesoft Basic 1948 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Not Employed NA Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-08T10:28:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis, Financial analysis 5 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Community resources NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to decrease Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Survey analysis, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 5 9 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R Qbasic 1992 Male Indian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) France Not Employed NA None NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T10:32:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Tableau Yes Usually I like how easy the code is to understand, and the wide variety of packages I wish package instructions were better, but that comes with the territory of being open source! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Conda 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau SAS 1990 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Social Services Nonprofit Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-08T10:34:03Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 4 9 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually Complete Unfriendly algorithms for data manipulations. SAS 'style' is better General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SAS, SPSS, Visual Basic Pascal 1969 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Brazil Education Professor Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-08T10:45:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Understanding R's data types Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Tableau Yes Usually Tidyverse, documentations on internet, community, diversity of packages Many functions doing the same things General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, Tableau C/C++ 1983 Male NA NA France Education Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup R blogger English 2021-01-08T10:50:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 On the job It allowed my work team to be much more efficient Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually Streamlining data manipulation and minimizing data errors Figuring out how to get it to do what I want it to do, and resolving errors that don't make sense General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Reports (PDF) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1983 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Environmental science Scientist Consultant or Advisor 5 No, not really NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-08T10:59:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Easy checking the results of data manipulation. Feels like I have more control and knowledge about the data. It's often not possible to do operations in parallel. Problems with dopar and less alternatives. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, Departements shared folder for colleges I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda, R 2 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Excel 1989 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Research Research Employee / Ph.D. Student Researcher 3 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T10:59:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Python, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Simple and to the point Data modeling and manchine learning General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Modeling, Machine learning Conda 5 9 I expect it to stay the same Julia, Python, R R 1986 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Indonesia Information Technologies Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 1 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-08T11:03:34Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning to use the R command line user interface Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 3 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely It's free Hard learning curve and long non standardize and confusing codes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email I expect it to increase 5 Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Python Excel 1994 Male Kashmiri Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Social sector Researcher Researcher 0 Yes, somewhat NA Google news section English 2021-01-08T11:04:21Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Just getting started Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The code is easy to read. Tidy verse is great!! Implementing code in production environments (now mostly done in Python or Java or C) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing, Production invironment Anaconda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Java, Python, R, Tableau, SQL if it counts Tableau 1996 Man European/Dutch High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Netherlands Education Head data architect Management 3 Neutral NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T11:16:41Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2000 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Medicine 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating pdf documents by knitting within rstudio, not custom pagedown. I don't even know what that means. I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week I manage development by others I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R, SAS Basic 1966 NA NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator NA Neutral Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-08T11:21:54Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Lots of documentation and online resources The fact that there are so many ways to accomplish the same goal can be daunting. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month General basic programming Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 5 10 I expect it to stay the same R R 1965 Female Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Mexico Not Employed NA None NA I'm not sure NA Facebook English 2021-01-08T11:25:13Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 On the job I was personally interested Just getting started Less than once a month Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It has lots of online resources Sometimes it crashes Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease three Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Python 1993 Male White Not part of an institutional education program China Research Graduate student Student 2 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T11:41:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Managing packages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Medicine 4 10 Microsoft Excel I don't know what the tidyverse is I don't know what tidyverse is NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA NA NA NA NA I don't use Python NA NA NA NA NA Excel Excel 1982 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) India Health Care and Medicine Faculty Researcher NA Yes, somewhat R Medicine conference Facebook English 2021-01-08T11:44:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Survey analysis 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Python, SAS, Tableau Yes Usually Simplicity to run data analysis vs something like Python The only thing I can think of (everything is great) is that theming could use some love General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 7 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, SAS, Tableau Matlab 1993 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Statistician II Statistician 6 Neutral RStudio::conf From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-08T11:54:34Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Occasionally Developing useful functions and packages. The sense that it might be a bit of a leap to learn a more 'general-purpose' language (e.g., Python, Rust) after using R. (Or, at least, that it is harder to go from R to Python/Rust/etc. than from Python/Rust/etc. to Rust/Python/etc.) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, reddit.com/r/rstats (and similar) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, reddit.com/r/rstats Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML pages, map widgets, and PDFs--but not necessarily using the tools described in the answers above (pagedown, flexdashboard, etc.). I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R SAS 1997 Male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research PhD student Student 3 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T12:01:10Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA NA In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro No Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, R 5 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Tableau Python 2000 Male White Some college or university, no college degree United States of America Information Technologies None Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, somewhat NA News article from google English 2021-01-08T12:14:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities R in production environment More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually Workflow automation, reproducibility Slow at times Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1990 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior Data Lead Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T12:16:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Econometrics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), VS Code Yes Usually Simplicity NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, R, Visual Studio Code 3 6 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R R 1996 Male White, Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) France Research Doctoral student Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-08T12:21:50Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2005 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely number and variety (breadth) of available packages and methods missing possibility to generate compiled apps, but interactive/interpreted mode is great for development General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, R Fortran 1952 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Health Care and Medicine Scientific Consultant Data scientist or analyst 50 Yes, somewhat UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T12:32:28Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Learning R syntax Less than once a month Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface) Yes Usually great community and support first language to learn - defending my choice to people who prefer Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Databricks, R 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R R 1975 male Black/African, White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Professional and Business Services Sr Consultant Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T12:49:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, public health data quality assessment and reproducible reporting 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Microsoft Word and SmartSheets Yes Usually NA NA community.rstudio.com community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, word documents using OfficeR and flextable I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R Visual Basic 1974 transmasculine White, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) research analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-08T12:49:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Interacting with databases 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro, Jenkins Yes Occasionally The package ecosystem The package ecosystem General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Source code on GitHub General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RStudio Connect site run by my organization, GitLab pages, publishing packages I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Modeling JupyterHub, R, RStudio Connect, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R, SQL Matlab 1991 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Insurance Senior Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T13:31:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Learning R syntax More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Tidy verse, Rmarkdown, Shiny Non-standard evaluation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Julia, Python, R R 1995 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Accommodation and Food Services Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-08T13:33:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually the tidyverse packages NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, Tableau, SQL R 1991 female Black/African One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Financial Services and Activities Senior Data Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-08T13:36:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Rarely Breadth of tools, models, packages Tidyverse excluding ggplot, rmarkdown, knitr, shiny. Limited mathprog modelling capabilities Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Self service Modelling tool I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Text processing, Mathematical optimization Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterHub 3 7 I expect it to increase Python, R C/C++ 1973 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Professional and Business Services NA Data scientist or analyst 6 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-08T13:41:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Tableau Yes Occasionally The interface and packages Carrying out a convolutional neural network model in R or any form of deep learning Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, Shiny Server Pro, Tableau, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1995 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Nigeria Research Research Assistant Data scientist or analyst 7 Yes, definitely Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-08T13:44:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Databricks, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Docker (i.e Rocker) Yes Usually I can use it for the entire spectrum of my work, as in do ad-hoc analysis on my desktop one day and promote R code into production the next relatively seamlessly. Not necessarily R, but I wish RStudio had some features that other modern IDEs have, such as intellisense General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R4DS Slack workspace Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Visualization Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, R C/C++ 1990 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T13:51:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 On the job I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Survey analysis 3 3 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Usually the graphics customizability is truly the best around. There are few other visual tools out there that you can use to create EXACTLY what you want It's so hard to de-bug and change syntax between the coding language. Often when I see example code I spend 95% of the time just figuring out what each piece means. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS SAS 1992 female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Data Programmer Analyst Data scientist or analyst 50 Neutral NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-08T14:00:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I was personally interested Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Spatial analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Ease of coding with tidyverse. Easier to remember syntax. Getting crap from python users. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Spatial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Tableau Fortran 77 baby! 1964 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference Email English 2021-01-08T14:10:56Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually flexibility, neat graphics complex codes General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R R 1966 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Assistant Director Researcher 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-08T14:17:58Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis, Geospatial analysis 5 10 Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Power BI, QGIS, Azure ML Yes Usually Concise, function-like syntax; multitude of packages, RStudio IDE Slow or lack of integration for the most current Deep Learning tools. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, eBooks General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Doing tutorials and online R courses. Meet-up gatherings. I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Modeling, Machine learning, Deep Learning Anaconda, Conda, Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code, Power BI, Azure ML 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SQL, Microsoft Power Automate (low code / no code) Fortran 1963 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Canada Professional and Business Services Data Science Consultant Consultant or Advisor 10 Yes, somewhat RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T14:27:52Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Survey analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Open source free accessible NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo CRAN Task Views Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Java, R C/C++ 1988 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) India Research NA Researcher NA Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-08T15:02:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS No Usually data cleaning, breath of packages, community installation troubles General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Matlab, R, SAS R 1994 male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Denmark Education phd student Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T15:27:35Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2010 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Both since shiny is in server and desktop Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server Yes Usually Nice visuals, easy to learn, wide use of statistics and modeling packages available, shiny Nothing General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Web browser I expect it to increase 5 I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R, SAS, Tableau SAS 1984 Female Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Quantitative Modeling Associate Statistician 2 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T15:31:20Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually It's focus on statistical analysis The steep learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R Python 1989 male White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Not Employed NA None NA Neutral NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T15:32:17Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1995 R is dialect of S which I learned as S-PLUS It was required for my work Differences between R and S (S-PLUS) More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Designed for computing with data Lack of acceptance / use by other fields General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Automatic data collection (RPi) R 3 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Python, R, Fortran Basic (not Visual Basic, it did not exist) 1956 male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Not Employed NA Statistician NA Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, rOpenSci Unconf Email English 2021-01-08T15:57:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2006 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, CRAN Task Views, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors NA I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Java, R Java 1977 Female White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Not Employed NA Student NA No, not really UseR conference, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-08T16:03:25Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Cloud, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io No Usually Its flexibility NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, community.rstudio.com R packages built for search such as the sos package, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Just learning for now I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R R 1980 Male Hispanic/Latinx Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Analyst (but what I do is research software engineering) Software developer 4 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, rOpenSci Unconf, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-08T16:10:08Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I don't like anything named after snakes; since the creator of python decided to name it after a snake, I was glad there was an alternative. In addition, I really really love the IDE of R studio which python lacks. Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Flex dashboard Yes Usually I love using RStudio IDE The syntax can be a bit challenging. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to increase Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1983 MALE Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Nigeria Consulting Data Scientist Data scientist or analyst 10 Neutral NA Google English 2021-01-08T16:12:10Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Visualization, Professional websites 3 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally Beautiful plots; packages that can make beautiful websites Constant, script-breaking updates to packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown, Creating presentation slides I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to decrease R, csh csh 1987 M Asian, White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Professor Educator 2 No, not at all NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T16:13:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to build interactive applications (e.g., Shiny applications, dashboards, web apps) Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Shiny, tidyverse Handling Json General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards, Mapping applications, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Financial analysis Jupyter Notebooks 4 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Scala, F# Scheme 1968 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Switzerland Education Professor Researcher 2 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T16:18:07Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation 5 6 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python Yes Usually 1) There are a lot of free e-book 2) Tidyverse 3) Pipe operator 4) Non-standard evaluation R has much smaller popularity, community and less libraries than Python General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Python, R, SPSS Excel NA male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Russia Health Care and Medicine Analyst Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T16:24:15Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course Thesis Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same R R 1996 Male Prefer not to answer Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Professional and Business Services NA Student NA No, not at all NA Google English 2021-01-08T16:24:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 4 9 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Coding and producing analyses and visualizations Update compatibility and package use errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, R packages built for search such as the sos package, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda 3 6 I expect it to stay the same Excel, SAS Excel NA Female NA Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Researcher 10 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-08T16:24:59Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use I don't use R any more Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Visualization, Text analysis 3 8 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Cloud No I don't know what tidyverse is Freedom and adaptation Steep learning curve General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Mapping applications, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++ Excel 1984 Female White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Assistant Professor Educator 2 Yes, somewhat NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-08T16:27:04Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Visualization 4 6 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io Yes Rarely Data visualization Not knowing much about all packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R C/C++ NA Female Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Not Employed NA None NA Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T16:27:11Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) I thought it would open new career opportunities Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Visualization 4 6 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Shinyapps.io Yes Rarely Data visualization Not knowing much about all packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Three I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R C/C++ NA Female Prefer not to answer Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Not Employed NA None NA Yes, definitely NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T16:38:03Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I thought it would open new career opportunities Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis, Data mining and web scrapping 5 9 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Connect, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Google drive Yes Usually I like the R community, I really enjoy using the Tidyverse packages and I also like the integrated environment provided by R Studio, I usually have no problems to download and load packages. Right now, the main problem I'm having is the lack of resources to do NLP in my native language (Portuguese). This is forcing me to learn Python and migrate some of my R projects to that language. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation Usually, my first contact to a new subject is through the DataCamp courses I take regularly. There is usually wehre I first learned about most packages I currently use. Sometimes I also search for solutions to specific problems at Google or Youtube. Email, Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Text processing Conda, Microsoft Excel 4 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1986 Male Hispanic/Latinx Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Brazil Education Associate Researcher Researcher 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-08T17:17:37Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SPSS Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Mapping applications I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R, SPSS, Tableau R 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Germany Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) NA Statistician 1 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T17:17:46Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was part of a course I took Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 8 Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The community Integrating with other tools General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to decrease Three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing Jupyter Notebooks, R 5 10 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1987 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Uruguay Information Technologies Data analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Neutral NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T17:26:21Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Less than once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA It's difficult for me to create executables/binaries General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 10 I expect it to stay the same R C/C++ 1993 Malw Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Project Manager Project Manager NA Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T17:42:23Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, SPSS Yes Usually It is logical Finding the errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 9 I expect it to increase None I am just getting started learning programming 1988 Female White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Greece Health Care and Medicine Ophthalmologist Medical professional 2 I'm not sure NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T17:49:01Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 On the job It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Spatial analyses 4 8 Databricks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Rarely Brilliant packages Doifficilt to do object-oriented programming Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Conda, Databricks, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, R 3 6 I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Idl Matlab 1980 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Netherlands Geoscience Consultant Researcher 0 Neutral NA Google English 2021-01-08T18:16:53Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) It was part of a course I took Using R's documentation Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Text analysis 4 8 RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, Python, R Excel 1998 Woman White One or more graduate courses, no graduate degree United States of America Research NA Student NA No, not at all NA Twitter English 2021-01-08T18:25:33Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Tableau Yes Usually So much functionality at your fingertips. So many packages and it is so well supported by the community. You can find questions to problems easily and documentation on libraries is pretty good. Sometime syntax can be a little tricky. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, Matlab, R, Tableau BASIC 1976 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Director, Valuation and Stress Testing Researcher 4 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T18:32:18Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2006 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Very easy to do most data manipulations. The addition of shiny has taken it to another level. Maintaining a consistent version of packages and r itself across multiple projects, legacy code and with teams. Renv helps but it's still not super easy. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Internally hosted shiny apps I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning Anaconda, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Visual Studio Code 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1981 Male Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Lead Quantitative Analyst Data scientist or analyst 5 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T19:08:05Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2009 On the job It was required for my work Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 10 EMACS ESS mode, JupyterLab 3.0, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), Vi No Never Open shareable code and usefulness for stochastic modeling The drive towards tidyverse dominance. It is moving me to Python since most help now assumes you use tidyverse General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Publications I expect it to decrease 5 Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, I use Sweave but assume it won't be asked about I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Mapping applications I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, JupyterLab 3.0, Vi 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, R Fortran 1981 Male Mixed Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Research Assistant Peofessor Researcher 0 No, not at all NA From a colleague or friend English 2021-01-08T19:08:37Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2008 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Pro Yes Usually Availability of packages for different statistical / machine learning methods Nil General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, Stack overflow Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint) I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation Anaconda 2 4 I expect it to stay the same Python, R R 1985 Female Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Singapore Government Services (Federal, State, or Local) Senior data scientist Data scientist or analyst 20 Yes, definitely NA Google English 2021-01-08T19:08:52Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually The R Community Its limited, sometime nebulous documentation of packages General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS SAS 1988 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Utilities Senior Risk Analyst Data scientist or analyst 0 Yes, somewhat NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T19:19:45Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 JupyterLab 3.0, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Functional programming and it's the wild west Rs website is terrible compared to, say, Julia's. Userbase size matters and it's bad PR for the R language. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, GitHub mostly General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating documentation using pkgdown I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation, Machine learning Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, R 1 5 I expect it to increase Julia, Python, R SPSS 1983 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Lead Machine Learning Engineer Software developer 0 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Popped up in my mobile google chrome feed English 2021-01-08T19:38:49Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took "It's very easy to write ""bad"" R code making it hard to understand some programs you are working with" Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 3 7 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, The R Studio help function General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic Python 2000 Male White High school degree or equivalent (e.g. GED) Canada Financial Services and Activities NA Student NA No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T19:43:19Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2001 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server No Usually Welcoming and supportive community Weird R stuff that makes it hard to learn other languages. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Local Shiny server I expect it to stay the same five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents, Reports, communicating analyses I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, Visual Studio Code 4 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, Visual Basic Basic, perl 1974 M White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Research Research Associate Researcher 6 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-08T20:22:46Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Collage It was required for my work Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to decrease three Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R R 2000 Male Asian NA Indonesia Education NA Data scientist or analyst NA Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Email English 2021-01-08T20:24:49Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1999 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 4 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS, SPSS No Usually Reproducibility, Flexibility (many types of analyses and models), Markdown Report, Graph with ggplot2, dplyr package. Data Cleaning, formatting for reports. "General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Use ""?"" in R console." General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, Create a HTML report using knitr and share with colaborators. I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Create PDF and HTML reports using markdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, Stata SPSS 1973 Male Hispanic/Latinx, It is very arrogant to use 'latinx', do you want to colonize my language too???? Stop virtue signaling on our backs. Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Health Care and Medicine Biostatistician Statistician 10 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-08T20:38:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 4 8 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Usually Vectorisation of most functions Data types General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Daily -- Once or more per day Data transformation, Machine learning, Genomics Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R, Spyder 4 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Python, R C/C++ 1989 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) India Research Research fellow Researcher 1 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T20:39:27Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Just getting started More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS Yes Occasionally Simple and effective NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Clinical trials Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), SAS 4 10 I expect it to increase R, SAS, Tableau R 1997 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Health Care and Medicine Biostatistician Statistician 6 Yes, definitely NA community.rstudio.com English 2021-01-08T20:40:59Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2014 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a week and once a month Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually Data subsetting and unilateral calculations Remembering the applys :) General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, YouTube General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month As required for system admin/legacy scripts etc Jupyter Notebooks 4 7 I expect it to stay the same Javascript, PHP, Python, R C/C++ 1969 Male White Associate degree (e.g. AA, AS) Australia Education DevOps Lead IT Support 0 No, not really NA LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T20:59:05Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1994 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested understanding the differences between R and S More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 5 9 EMACS ESS mode, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually The language with all its quirks and inconsistencies. The language with all its quirks and inconsistencies. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R packages built for search such as the sos package, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, publishing packages on GitHub and CRAN I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, I use .Rnw files in preference to .Rmd when I don't need to go to Word I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase C/C++, R, Fortran Fortran 1944 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Research Honorary Research Fellow Statistician 12 Yes, definitely UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T21:00:20Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2013 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server Yes Usually The community support No GUI for creating interactive scripts for my non-technical colleagues General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify I expect it to stay the same Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Geostatistics and geoprocessing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code 3 7 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, PHP, Python, R, Visual Basic, SQL Visual Basic 1987 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Environmental Consulting Water Resources Engineer Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, somewhat NA Google news feed English 2021-01-08T21:19:13Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2003 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Clinical trials 5 10 Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Connect, RStudio Server, RStudio Server Pro, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server Yes Usually Efficient Memory limit single thread General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating documentation using pkgdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Clinical trials Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, JupyterHub, RStudio Server Pro 5 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Javascript, Python, R, SAS, Tableau C/C++ 1978 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Health Care and Medicine Senior director Statistician 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, R Pharma conference LinkedIn English 2021-01-08T21:38:50Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Medicine, Clinical trials, Survey analysis 5 10 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server No Usually Flexibility and large ecosystem of packages to get the work done. Also learning for the people who develop the statistical routines by reading the man pages and vignettes It is very RAM hungry General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R I am just getting started learning programming 1978 Male Asian Professional degree (e.g. MD, DDS, DVM) India Health Care and Medicine Consultant Medical professional 1 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-08T21:42:40Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2015 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Financial analysis 4 9 Matlab, Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shiny Server No Usually Its compact and great at documenting Not being able to compile .exe files to distribute to users General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to decrease Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Matlab, Microsoft Excel, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server 3 7 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Matlab, Python, R, Visual Basic C/C++ 1989 Male Asian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Financial Services and Activities Head of quantitative research Financial professional 3 Yes, somewhat NA Google feed English 2021-01-08T22:15:31Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2016 On the job I wanted to do statistical analyses Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shiny Server, Tableau, Power BI Yes Usually The interactivity of the RStudio IDE Not being able to distribute stand-alone executable applications that don't require the user to have R installed. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Corporate Shiny web server I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data transformation Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio Code 4 7 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, Tableau, Visual Basic, M and DAX (in Power BI) C/C++ 1965 Male Asian Indian Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Utilities Sr. Program Manager Financial professional 2 Yes, somewhat NA Email English 2021-01-08T22:41:39Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Less than once a month Microsoft Windows NA 3 10 Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, Email lists such as r-help, r-packages, or r-pkg-devel, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation NA I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks 3 10 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Python, R, Visual Basic Visual Basic NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Yes, somewhat UseR conference, rOpenSci Unconf Email English 2021-01-08T22:42:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to use a specific R package (for example, tidyverse, tidymodels, RMarkdown, etc.) Decoding R's error messages More than once a day Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Financial analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Usually I love using the tidyverse and that creating a web application can be done just using this language The error messages are pretty hard to decode General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts RPubs.com, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase Five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel 5 10 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Matlab, Python, R, SPSS, Tableau Excel 1997 Female Black/African, Hispanic/Latinx Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Dominican Republic Financial Services and Activities Risk analyst Financial professional 0 Yes, somewhat NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-08T22:45:44Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2016 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course It was required for my work Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Genomics 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Occasionally Everything is vectorized and the interactive console I feel like it's still a nitche lenguaje so i'm not sure if i will be able to apply it in another job General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating presentation slides I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards, Interactive tables I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Automating web scraping Jupyter Notebooks, R 3 8 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Javascript, Matlab, PHP, Python, R, Visual Basic Basic 1983 Male White Licenciado Argentina Currently doing My PhD PhD student Student 0 Yes, somewhat NA - English 2021-01-08T22:50:22Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was required for my work Finding proper packages to use More than once a day Microsoft Windows Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning 4 7 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally It is easy to use. As I mostly use for data manipulation pipe operator make code easily readable. There are less job opportunities who mainly use R, most of the openings are for those who use python. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email I expect it to stay the same Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase R Excel 1995 Male Asian Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) India Financial Services and Activities Business analyst Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf Google English 2021-01-08T22:52:36Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I wanted to do statistical analyses Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis 4 8 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Rarely Just learning for now Just learning for now General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts None I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 4 9 I expect it to increase Javascript, PHP, Python, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1985 Woman White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Ukraine Not Employed NA None NA No, not really NA Google English 2021-01-08T22:55:40Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2019 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Just getting started Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Financial analysis, Network Optimization, Linear Programming, Data Envelopment Analysis 5 10 Microsoft Excel, Python, RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server, Shinyapps.io, Shiny Server, SQL Yes Usually RStudio IDE, numerous packages with real world business applications, ease of data wrangling, and Shinyapps I never mastered R command line programming because of the ease of using RStudio. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, community.rstudio.com, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, RStudio Connect site run by my organization, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards, Interactive tables, Narrative storytelling with text and data I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab 2.0, JupyterLab 3.0, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 8 I expect it to stay the same Excel, Python, R, Visual Basic, SQL Excel NA Male Black/African Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United States of America Information Technologies Project Manager Data scientist or analyst 100 Neutral NA Email English 2021-01-08T23:05:24Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2017 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Using R's documentation More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 9 JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io No Usually Organization of Material and technologies Not yet found a job to use my R skills General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, JupyterLab 3.0, Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 2 5 I expect it to stay the same C/C++, Excel, Python, R, SPSS, Stata Excel 1997 Male Black/African Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Uganda Professional and Business Services Data Sciencist Data scientist or analyst 2 Yes, somewhat Local or regional R meetup Email English 2021-01-08T23:09:42Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Knowing no one else who knew how to use R to ask questions of More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization, Genomics 5 9 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server No Rarely The community Learning curve for other people General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to stay the same Five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Publishing online and offline books via bookdown I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation Anaconda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE) 3 7 I expect it to increase R R 1982 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) United States of America Education Associate Professor Educator 0 Yes, somewhat NA Twitter English 2021-01-09T00:11:04Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2018 Online course (e.g., Coursera, edX, Dataquest) I was personally interested Finding proper packages to use Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 RStudio Desktop (IDE), RStudio Server Yes Usually I can write readable R code that does what I need without having to worry about low level data types eg array manipulation, indexing etc Its slower than other options. Visualisation could be better but there's lots of work going on in ggplot2 to make it better. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Personal blog or web site owned by you I expect it to stay the same five Daily -- Once or more per day Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Using bookdown and tinytex to generate documents I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, Matlab, R BASIC 1975 Male White Bachelor’s degree (e.g. BA, BS) Australia Research Research Scholar Student 5 Neutral UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup Twitter English 2021-01-09T00:42:48Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 1998 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course For stats research Understanding R's data types More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Medicine, Clinical trials 5 8 EMACS ESS mode, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Make and bash scripts No Usually Usually quick trustable results and R markdown is a great addition to array of reproducible research tools that R provides Sometimes hard to track down errors General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase 5 Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Creating R Notebooks, Creating publication-ready articles for submission, Creating presentation slides, Creating course material, lectures etc I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same C/C++, R, Make, Bash, regular expressions, latex FORTRAN 1958 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Australia Health Care and Medicine Lecturer Data scientist or analyst 3 Yes, definitely NA Twitter English 2021-01-09T02:06:58Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2007 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Insufficient knowledge of R internals. I still struggle with quote, substitute, etc. More than once a day Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Mesh manipulation, Solving PDEs, Code generation. 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Never Great syntax and design of the original language (superior to Python in nearly every way). The whole environment scoping, function as an object, etc. Easy integration with C/C++ (RCPP). Out-of-the-box linear algebra. Great documentation. Passing by value is sometimes annoying. Loops can be sometimes slow. General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, CRAN Task Views, Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars Email, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, RPubs.com I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Building web sites via blogdown I expect it to decrease Occasionally -- less than once a month Data exploration I plan to stop using it Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Visualization, PDEs solving, mesh and data trasformation, visualisation through VTK. R, Visual Studio Code 1 1 I expect it to increase C/C++, Excel, Java, Javascript, Matlab, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Visual Basic Visual Basic 1985 male Prefer not to answer Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Poland Research Adjunkt Researcher 1 No, not really NA Facebook English 2021-01-09T02:53:51Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2015 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took No obtascles. All the good resources are provided about R. Between once a week and once a month Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis 5 10 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Shinyapps.io Yes Occasionally It's flexible. Vignettes and documentation are always well provided. The R community is always here to support you. I like shiny applications and the good quality of data viz using ggplot2. Using caret or tidymodels for building machine learning help me a lot to do what I want to achieve! Nothing! General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Conferences, meet-ups, or seminars, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Personal blog or web site owned by you, Public web sites such as GitHub or Netlify, Shinyapps.io I expect it to increase five Occasionally -- less than once a month Building web sites via blogdown, Creating presentation slides, Creating HTML dashboards with flexdashboard I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data exploration, Dashboards I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Visualization Jupyter Notebooks 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R, Tableau R 1994 Female White Engineer degree and research master's degree Tunisia Information Technologies Business Intelligence Consultant Consultant or Advisor 0 Yes, definitely RStudio::conf, UseR conference, Local or regional R meetup, R Ladies meetups (local, regional, national, or international) Twitter English 2021-01-09T03:12:20Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2013 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning to use the R command line user interface More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization, Text analysis, Genomics, Medicine, Survey analysis 5 8 Microsoft Excel, RStudio Desktop (IDE) No Usually Its versatility, the fact that for almost any application there is at least one package implementing a solution. The way it deals with fonts/glyphs, and this indirectly prevents improving the quality of graphs (creating infographic style graphics). General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Email, Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications, PowerPoint presentations I expect it to increase Five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating publication-ready articles for submission I expect it to increase Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to increase Occasionally -- less than once a month Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Microsoft Excel, R 3 8 I expect it to increase Python, R R 1973 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Romania Education Professor Educator 0 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-09T03:48:36Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2020 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 Microsoft Excel Yes Usually The diversity of applications/tools Installing packages can be very difficult Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to stay the same Excel, R Excel 1971 Male White Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) France Research Directeur de recherches CNRS Researcher 2 Yes, definitely NA Email English 2021-01-09T04:25:15Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2019 On the job It was required for my work Learning R syntax Between once a day and once a week Linux (any distribution) Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 4 EMACS ESS mode Yes Usually quick visualization slowness and syntax Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora General search websites such as Google and Yahoo Email, Other internal web site or portal run by my organization (for example, Sharepoint), Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to decrease five Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Creating R Notebooks, Creating custom PDF documents using pagedown, Creating Shiny-based interactive documents I plan to stop using it Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I plan to stop using it Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Visualization, Machine learning, Text processing, Survey analysis, Financial analysis Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Emacs and Vim 5 9 I expect it to increase Excel, Javascript, Python, R, SPSS Javascript 1995 male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) United Kingdom Professional and Business Services Quantitative researcher Data scientist or analyst 2 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-09T04:33:00Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Learning R syntax Less than once a month Apple MacOS Data cleaning or manipulation, Text analysis, Survey analysis 4 8 RStudio Cloud, RStudio Desktop (IDE) Yes Occasionally NA NA General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo NA I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Interactive tables I expect it to increase Monthly -- between once a week and once a month Data transformation, Machine learning, Text processing Anaconda 4 8 I expect it to increase None Logo 1973 Male White Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Canada Professional and Business Services Consultant Consultant or Advisor 1 No, not really NA Email English 2021-01-09T04:43:06Z Expert NA NA NA NA NA 2011 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I was personally interested Just getting started More than once a day Apple MacOS Statistical analysis, Modeling/machine learning, Visualization 4 9 Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), VS code No Occasionally The community (easy to find answers) Sloppy sloppy Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora Your personal network, such as colleagues and professors, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal) NA I expect it to stay the same five Occasionally -- less than once a month Creating R Notebooks, Some teaching I expect it to decrease Never -- I don't use Shiny NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Goofing around Anaconda, Visual Studio Code 5 10 I expect it to stay the same R Think Pascal 1986 Male NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) Sweden Research PhD student Researcher 1 No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-09T05:03:42Z Beginner NA NA NA NA NA 2020 In-person course (including bootcamps and workshops as well as more formal courses) It was part of a course I took Understanding R's data types Between once a day and once a week Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis 3 4 Microsoft Excel, Shinyapps.io Yes Usually The interface Intuitiveness General search websites such as Google and Yahoo General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Shinyapps.io I expect it to stay the same Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to stay the same Occasionally -- less than once a month Dashboards I expect it to increase I don't use Python NA NA NA NA I expect it to increase Excel, R Excel NA NA NA Master’s degree (e.g. MA, MS, MEd) NA Accommodation and Food Services NA Management NA No, not really NA RStudio web site or blog English 2021-01-09T05:16:40Z Intermediate NA NA NA NA NA 2012 By myself using a book or online documentation that was not part of a formal course I wanted to do statistical analyses Learning R syntax More than once a day Microsoft Windows Statistical analysis, Data cleaning or manipulation, Visualization 5 10 R Command Line (i.e., the native R terminal interface), RStudio Desktop (IDE), Vs code, radian, notepad ntor Yes Occasionally Its stats package Its slow in particular task General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, Question and answer sites such as Stack Overflow and Quora, Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, Package help manual General search websites such as Google and Yahoo, R-specific search websites such as METACRAN or Rdocumentation, CRAN Task Views, Books, textbooks, or journal articles (JSS, JOSS, R-Journal), Social media such as blogs, R-bloggers, Twitter, Slack, or GitHub contacts Embedding results in research papers submitted to publications I expect it to increase Five I don't use R Markdown NA I expect it to increase Daily -- Once or more per day Data exploration, Dashboards, Narrative storytelling with text and data, Teaching, communication I expect it to increase Weekly -- Between once a day and once a week Statistical analysis, Data transformation, Modeling, Machine learning Anaconda, Conda, R, RStudio Desktop (IDE), Vs code 5 8 I expect it to increase C/C++, Javascript, Julia, Python, R R 1973 Male Asian Doctorate (e.g. PhD, EdD) Indonesia Education Lecturer Educator 0 I'm not sure NA Google English