seriously i wish bluesky had polls bc I want to know how many scientists use R and are learning this fact now from this tweet. I'd wager over 90%

I legit didn't know until this post, I'm somewhat ashamed to say

I'm using it right now and had no idea...

I've been using R for over a decade and I had no idea.

Learning it for the first time today!

Haven't used R regularly since college. But this is the first time I've heard this.

I'm very willing to acknowledge my ignorance at the beginning of the day and my thanks to you that I can go to bed happy that I've learned something.

I teach an R class, knew that Ross Ihaka was an inventor, had no idea he’s Māori

Layers of knowing… I knew R was invented by a guy (actually I thought it was two guys) with first name(s) beginning with the letter R

raised hand dot gi

WOW "His thesis was titled Ruaumoko, after the Māori god of earthquakes, volcanoes and seasons"