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> Strategically should a job seeker emphasize experience in one of the packages for roles in one ecosystem

If you're on the data science job market, you should know Python because that's basically all the jobs right now (the Python vs R debate was relevant 5-6+ years ago and Matlab was never that big). I don't know enough about the engineering job market to comment on it.

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Oh, is R not relevant anymore, or declining?

It hasn't been relevant for a while, it's a tiny percentage of the job market and only getting smaller over time.

I just hired a R engineer, so not that tiny. For a data science job with a lot of stats and math. R still beats Python for stats/data science programing. In my market, R people have more math/stats than Python applicants,

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