Schedule:

• Location: the congress centre “Pierre Baudis”, room: DAURAT (3rd floor)
  See the useR! website for the directions
• 10:20am - 10:30am - Opening Remarks
  
  
• 10:30am - 12:00pm - R Tooling and Language

  RDT: A Dynamic Tracing Framework for Rabstract

  Aviral Goel (Northeastern University, USA), Filip Křikava (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic), Jan Vitek (Northeastern University, USA and Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)

  An automatic differentiation extension for R, and its implementation in pqR abstract

  Radford M. Neal (University of Toronto, Vector Institute Affiliate)

• 12:00pm - 13:00pm - R Optimization and Analysis

  R bytecode compiler

  Luke Tierney (University of Iowa)

  The Design of a new Bytecode format for R

  Jan Vitek (Northeastern University, USA and Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)

• 14:00pm - 15:00pm - R Implementations

  The Renjin Toolchain: Compiling R, Fortran, C, and C++ to JVM Bytecode

  Alexander Bertram (BeDataDriven)

  FastR update: LLVM back-end and R compatibility abstract

  Stepan Sindelar (Oracle Labs)

• 15:00pm - 15:40pm - Panel Discussion: The Challenges of Compiling the R Language
  
  

Luke Tierney (R), Alexander Bertram (Renjin), Stepan Sindelar (FastR), Jan Vitek (RIR)

• 15:40pm - 15:45pm - Closing Remarks
  
  

R is a programming language for statistical computing, with thousands of packages available in open-source repositories and over 2 million users in both academia and industry.

RIOT 2019 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 of 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.

Each discussion topic will be split between equally long presentation and Q&A parts.

• 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 experiences
• R language extensions

One page abstracts describing discussion topics should be submitted via email to Stepan Sindelar by June 1st, 2019 (11.59pm AoE)

Organizers:

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

Program Committee:

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

Previous workshops:

RIOT 2017 in Brussels (co-located with useR! 2017)
RIOT 2016 in Stanford (co-located with useR! 2016)
RIOT 2015 in Prague (co-located with ECOOP 2015)