Schedule:

• Location: the workshop will take place in Wild Gallery Room 4.03
  
  
• 11:00am - 11:10am - Opening Remarks
  
  
• 11:10am - 12:40pm - R Parallelism
  Leveraging a Just-in-Time Compiler for Coarse-Grained Parallelism
  Alexander Bertram (BeDataDriven)
  R goes Mobile: Efficient Scheduling for Parallel R Programs on Heterogeneous Embedded Systems
  Helena Kotthaus (TU Dortmund)
  Efficient Distributed Dataframes on Apache Flink
  Andreas Kunft, Jens Meiners, Tilmann Rabl, Volker Markl (TU Berlin)
  
  
• 1:30pm - 3:00pm - R Tooling and Language
  Joint profiling of native and R code: Preliminary results
  Kirill Müller
  Recent and planned language extensions in pqR
  Radford Neal (University of Toronto)
  fexprs alive and well
  Lionel Henry (RStudio)
  
  
• 3:30pm - 4:30pm - R Implementations
  Advances in memory management and symbol lookup in pqR
  Radford Neal (University of Toronto)
  FastR update: Interoperability, Graphics, Debugging, Profiling, and other hot topics
  Lukas Stadler (Oracle Labs)
  
  
• 5:00pm - 6:30pm - R Optimization and Analysis
  Improving R-Compatibility and Performance in the TERR engine
  Michael Sannella (TIBCO Software Inc.)
  Incorporating S4 type inference information in Renjin's Just-In-Time Compiler
  Parham Solaimani (BeDataDriven)
  ROSA: R Optimizations with Static Analysis
  Rathijit Sen (Microsoft), Jianqiao Zhu, Jignesh M. Patel, Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  
  
• 6:30am - 6:40am - Closing Remarks
  
  

R is a programming language for statistical computing, with thousands of packages available in open-source repositories and millions of users in both academia and industry.

RIOT 2017 is a one-day workshop dedicated to exploring future directions for the development of R language implementations and tools. The goals of the workshop include, but are not limited to, sharing experience in developing different R language implementations and tools and evaluate their status, exploring possibilities for increasing involvement of the R users community in the efforts of constructing different R implementations, identifying R language development and tooling opportunities enabled by the emerging implementations, and discussing future directions for the R language. The workshop will consist of a number of short talks and discussions and will bring together developers of R language implementations and tools.

Talks are expected to either present work done by the authors or introduce a discussion topic, and each talk will be accompanied by an extensive Q&A session. Example topics are:

• novel R language implementation techniques
• R language tooling support
• interaction between R implementations and tools
• R language optimizations
• progress reports on the status of emerging R language implementations
• use-cases for emerging R language implementations
• performance studies for R language implementations
• R language implementation "war stories"
• R language extensions

Short abstracts should be submitted via email to Lukas Stadler by May 26th, 2017 (11.59pm AoE)

Authors will be notified by June 2nd, 2017

Organizers:

Lukas Stadler, Oracle Labs
Jan Vitek, Northeastern University
Alex Bertram, BeDataDriven

Program Committee:

JJ Alaire, RStudio
Mick Jordan, Oracle Labs
Tomas Kalibera, Czech Technical University
Helena Kotthaus, TU Dortmund
Michael Lawrence, Genentech
Petr Maj, Reactor Labs
Karl Millar, Google
Indrajit Roy, Google
Michael Sannella, TIBCO
Duncan Temple Lang, UC Davis
Luke Tierney, University of Iowa
Andrie de Vries, Microsoft
Hadley Wickham, RStudio

Previous workshops:

RIOT 2016 in Stanford (co-located with useR! 2016)
RIOT 2015 in Prague (co-located with ECOOP 2015)