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I'd say that by virtue of using R, regardless of your major, you are a programmer.

The author of the article seems to mainly be concerned with being in a really homogenous social group according to job title.

You're right that everyone who programs is a programmer, but 'programmer' in the article means someone for whom programmer is their job title.

I bet they people in his social circle would have the same argument.

I'm a programmer and I hate doing this kind of statistics analysis. Not my cup of tea.

A lot of the programmers at my company have never even heard of R.

I am not, nor have I ever been, a CS major. Yet I am a programmer.

I think you're kind of missing the point. There are not nearly as many MBA, liberal art, lawyer, etc people on here as techies and programmers.

Same here, but my experience is that I only know other programmers through work. I'm sure that's as much of my own fault as anything but I still wish I had more people in my circle who I could talk to about work and my technical interests.