rainbowR 2026
The inaugural rainbowR virtual conference brought together LGBTQIA+ users of R, and their allies, to promote their work
The inaugural rainbowR virtual conference brought together LGBTQIA+ users of R, and their allies, to promote their work and foster connections amongst the community. rainbowR is a community whose mission is to connect, support and promote LGBTQ+ R users, and to spread awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism. Find out more at rainbowr.org .
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pointblank, was I expecting this? |Hannah Frick
Talk from rainbowR conference 2026: https://conference.rainbowr.org
Claude Code for R | Hadley Wickham
Talk from rainbowR conference 2026: https://conference.rainbowr.org
If you’ve been paying attention to software engineering social media lately, you might have noticed a lot of noise about Claude Code and the Opus 4.5 model. For me personally, these have pushed AI coding assistance from a “nice to have” to something that feels just as important as git.
In this talk, I’ll show you a couple of my “vibe” coded experiments, but more importantly show you how Claude Code helps me write higher-quality R code faster. I’ve used it a bunch recently for both testthat and dbplyr, two large, well-established code bases where quality is more important than velocity
