I've soured a lot on directly productionizing data science code. It's normally an unmaintainable mess.
If you write it in R and then rewrite it in C (better: rewrite it in English with the R as helpful annotations, then have someone else rewrite it in C), at least there is some chance you've thought about the abstractions and operations that are actually necessary for your problem.
If you write it in R and then rewrite it in C (better: rewrite it in English with the R as helpful annotations, then have someone else rewrite it in C), at least there is some chance you've thought about the abstractions and operations that are actually necessary for your problem.