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 <li>History: emerged as Base Academic in 1993, mainstreamed as Base Core from 2000 to date.</li>
 <li>Visuals: <code>[</code> (square-bracket selector), <code>$</code> (dollar selector), <code>~</code> (formula-form tilde).</li>
+<li>Media: <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html"><em>Writing R Extensions</em></a>, the <a href="https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help">R-help mailing list</a>, that textfile with a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mattdray/111125184484188641">Y2K warning</a> that came bundled with R v1.0.</li>
+<li>Fashion: cardigans, a wired mouse with a ball in it, the old-school IDE you get when you click ‘R.app’ instead of ‘RStudio.app’.</li>
 <li>Palette: <span style="background-color:lightgrey;">grey</span>.</li>
-<li>Fashion: Emacs, mailing lists, a wired mouse with a ball in it.</li>
 <li>Nearest aesthetic: <a href="https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Chaotic_Academia">Chaotic Academia</a>, which ‘acknowledges the pretentiousness of classic academia, subtly mocking it at times’.</li>
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 <li>History: humble academic origins in 2008, later popularised with the creation of the {tidyverse} in 2016.</li>
 <li>Visuals: <code>%&gt;%</code> ({magrittr} pipe), <code>.</code> (data placeholder), <code>~</code> (lambda function).</li>
-<li>Palette: Posit <span style="background-color:#1a162d;color:white;">blue</span>, <span style="background-color:#fdeba4;">yellow</span>, and <span style="background-color:#767381;color:white;">grey</span>.</li>
+<li>Media: <a href="https://r4ds.hadley.nz/"><em>R for Data Science</em></a>, conflict warnings in the console when you do <code>library(tidyverse)</code>, that one gif of Hadley tapping merrily on an invisible keyboard (‘just typing R code!’).</li>
 <li>Fashion: RStudio, hex stickers, rapid deprecation.</li>
+<li>Palette: Posit <span style="background-color:#1a162d;color:white;">blue</span>, <span style="background-color:#fdeba4;">yellow</span>, and <span style="background-color:#767381;color:white;">grey</span>.</li>
 <li>Nearest aesthetic: <a href="https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Corporate_Memphis">Corporate Memphis</a> because I’ve literally seen it in Posit marketing.</li>
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 <h4 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="overview-2">Overview</h4>
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-<li>History: incremental emergence following R version 4.0 in 2020, boosted greatly in 2022 with the release of the base pipe.</li>
+<li>History: incremental emergence following R version 4.0 in 2020, boosted greatly in 2022 with the release of the base pipe. The future of R.</li>
 <li>Visuals: <code>|&gt;</code> (base pipe), <code>_</code> (data placeholder), <code>\()</code> (lambda function).</li>
+<li>Media: meme blogs, cheeky Fosstodon posts.</li>
+<li>Fashion: hubris, evil moustaches, troll-face emojis.</li>
 <li>Palette: <span style="background-color:#ff0000;">r</span><span style="background-color:#ff00ff;">a</span><span style="background-color:#00ffff;">i</span><span style="background-color:#00ff00;">n</span><span style="background-color:#0000ff;color:white;">b</span><span style="background-color:#4b0082;color:white;">o</span><span style="background-color:#ee82ee;">w</span>?</li>
-<li>Fashion: hubris, moustaches, troll-face emojis.</li>
 <li>Nearest aesthetic: <a href="https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Vacation_Dadcore">Vacation Dadcore</a>, so you can ‘escape to a simpler time without sacrificing any of the fun’.</li>
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 <li>History: emerged as Base Academic in 1993, mainstreamed as Base Core from 2000 to date.</li>
 <li>Visuals: <code>[</code> (square-bracket selector), <code>$</code> (dollar selector), <code>~</code> (formula-form tilde).</li>
+<li>Media: <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html"><em>Writing R Extensions</em></a>, the <a href="https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help">R-help mailing list</a>, that textfile with a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mattdray/111125184484188641">Y2K warning</a> that came bundled with R v1.0.</li>
+<li>Fashion: cardigans, a wired mouse with a ball in it, the old-school IDE you get when you click ‘R.app’ instead of ‘RStudio.app’.</li>
 <li>Palette: <span style="background-color:lightgrey;">grey</span>.</li>
-<li>Fashion: Emacs, mailing lists, a wired mouse with a ball in it.</li>
 <li>Nearest aesthetic: <a href="https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Chaotic_Academia">Chaotic Academia</a>, which ‘acknowledges the pretentiousness of classic academia, subtly mocking it at times’.</li>
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 <ul>
 <li>History: humble academic origins in 2008, later popularised with the creation of the {tidyverse} in 2016.</li>
 <li>Visuals: <code>%&gt;%</code> ({magrittr} pipe), <code>.</code> (data placeholder), <code>~</code> (lambda function).</li>
-<li>Palette: Posit <span style="background-color:#1a162d;color:white;">blue</span>, <span style="background-color:#fdeba4;">yellow</span>, and <span style="background-color:#767381;color:white;">grey</span>.</li>
+<li>Media: <a href="https://r4ds.hadley.nz/"><em>R for Data Science</em></a>, conflict warnings in the console when you do <code>library(tidyverse)</code>, that one gif of Hadley tapping merrily on an invisible keyboard (‘just typing R code!’).</li>
 <li>Fashion: RStudio, hex stickers, rapid deprecation.</li>
+<li>Palette: Posit <span style="background-color:#1a162d;color:white;">blue</span>, <span style="background-color:#fdeba4;">yellow</span>, and <span style="background-color:#767381;color:white;">grey</span>.</li>
 <li>Nearest aesthetic: <a href="https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Corporate_Memphis">Corporate Memphis</a> because I’ve literally seen it in Posit marketing.</li>
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 <h4 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="overview-2">Overview</h4>
 <ul>
-<li>History: incremental emergence following R version 4.0 in 2020, boosted greatly in 2022 with the release of the base pipe.</li>
+<li>History: incremental emergence following R version 4.0 in 2020, boosted greatly in 2022 with the release of the base pipe. The future of R.</li>
 <li>Visuals: <code>|&gt;</code> (base pipe), <code>_</code> (data placeholder), <code>\()</code> (lambda function).</li>
+<li>Media: meme blogs, cheeky Fosstodon posts.</li>
+<li>Fashion: hubris, evil moustaches, troll-face emojis.</li>
 <li>Palette: <span style="background-color:#ff0000;">r</span><span style="background-color:#ff00ff;">a</span><span style="background-color:#00ffff;">i</span><span style="background-color:#00ff00;">n</span><span style="background-color:#0000ff;color:white;">b</span><span style="background-color:#4b0082;color:white;">o</span><span style="background-color:#ee82ee;">w</span>?</li>
-<li>Fashion: hubris, moustaches, troll-face emojis.</li>
 <li>Nearest aesthetic: <a href="https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Vacation_Dadcore">Vacation Dadcore</a>, so you can ‘escape to a simpler time without sacrificing any of the fun’.</li>
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-    "text": "The addendum\n\nBasecore\n\n\n\nAdapted from Aesthetics Wiki.\n\n\n\nOverview\n\nHistory: emerged as Base Academic in 1993, mainstreamed as Base Core from 2000 to date.\nVisuals: [ (square-bracket selector), $ (dollar selector), ~ (formula-form tilde).\nPalette: grey.\nFashion: Emacs, mailing lists, a wired mouse with a ball in it.\nNearest aesthetic: Chaotic Academia, which ‘acknowledges the pretentiousness of classic academia, subtly mocking it at times’.\n\n\n\nSample\nClassic stuff. Typical base-R code uses a lot of intermediate assignment to create temporary objects for further manipulation. Many actions make use of square bracket notation to indicate some action over rows and columns of a data.frame. Data.frame columns have to be called within the context of the data.frame they belong to, using dollar or square-bracket notation. The tilde is used for formula notation (‘this given that’).\n\n\nSet up demo data\n\n\nsuppressPackageStartupMessages(library(dplyr))\nsw_a <- starwars[, c(\"name\", \"species\", \"height\")]\nsw_b <- starwars[, c(\"name\", \"homeworld\")]\n\n\n\nx <- sw_a[sw_a$species == \"Human\", names(sw_a) != \"species\"]\nx <- merge(x, sw_b, by = \"name\")\nx$height <- x$height / 100\nx$homeworld <- ifelse(\n  !x$homeworld %in% c(\"Tatooine\", \"Naboo\"),\n  \"Other\",\n  x$homeworld\n)\nx <- aggregate(x, height ~ homeworld, mean, na.rm = TRUE)\nx <- x[order(-x$height), ]\nx\n\n  homeworld   height\n3  Tatooine 1.792500\n2     Other 1.776471\n1     Naboo 1.772000\n\n\n\n\n\nTidywave\n\n\n\nAdapted from Aesthetics Wiki.\n\n\n\nOverview\n\nHistory: humble academic origins in 2008, later popularised with the creation of the {tidyverse} in 2016.\nVisuals: %>% ({magrittr} pipe), . (data placeholder), ~ (lambda function).\nPalette: Posit blue, yellow, and grey.\nFashion: RStudio, hex stickers, rapid deprecation.\nNearest aesthetic: Corporate Memphis because I’ve literally seen it in Posit marketing.\n\n\n\nSample\nThe script reads from left-to-right and top-to-bottom, recipe style, using pipes: ‘take dataset, then do a thing, then do a thing’, etc. Each function is verb that indicates its action. Non-standard evaluation is rampant. A tilde replaces the tedious typing of function(). A titchy inconspicuous . acts as a data placeholder on the right-hand side of a pipe.\n\nsw_a %>%\n  filter(species == \"Human\") %>%\n  select(-species) %>%\n  left_join(sw_b, by = \"name\") %>%\n  mutate(\n    height = height / 100,\n    homeworld = if_else(\n      !homeworld %in% c(\"Tatooine\", \"Naboo\"),\n      \"Other\",\n      homeworld\n    )\n  ) %>%\n  summarise(\n    height = mean(height, na.rm = TRUE),\n    .by = homeworld\n  ) %>%\n  arrange(desc(height))\n\n# A tibble: 3 × 2\n  homeworld height\n  <chr>      <dbl>\n1 Tatooine    1.79\n2 Other       1.78\n3 Naboo       1.77\n\n\n\n\nV4 Punk\n\n\n\nAdapted from Aesthetics Wiki.\n\n\n\n\nOverview\n\nHistory: incremental emergence following R version 4.0 in 2020, boosted greatly in 2022 with the release of the base pipe.\nVisuals: |> (base pipe), _ (data placeholder), \\() (lambda function).\nPalette: rainbow?\nFashion: hubris, moustaches, troll-face emojis.\nNearest aesthetic: Vacation Dadcore, so you can ‘escape to a simpler time without sacrificing any of the fun’.\n\n\n\nSample\nHear me out: what if tidyverse, but made entirely of base R functions2? This is now possible with the base pipe and by using obscure functions that help you avoid square brackets3. It’s also sketchy as heck; just see the help files for subset() (‘unanticipated consequences’) and transform() (‘you deserve whatever you get!’). The death of Basecore and Tidywave, for sure.\n\nsw_a |>\n  subset(\n    species == \"Human\",\n    select = -species\n  ) |>\n  merge(sw_b, by = \"name\") |>\n  transform(\n    height = height / 100,\n    homeworld = ifelse(\n      !homeworld %in% c(\"Tatooine\", \"Naboo\"),\n      \"Other\",\n      homeworld\n    )\n  ) |>\n  aggregate(\n    height ~ homeworld, \n    \\(x) mean(x, na.rm = TRUE)\n  ) |>\n  sort_by(~ height, decreasing = TRUE)  # hot off the v4.4 press\n\n  homeworld   height\n3  Tatooine 1.792500\n2     Other 1.776471\n1     Naboo 1.772000\n\n\nCan’t wait to see this roll out into production code."
+    "text": "The addendum\n\nBasecore\n\n\n\nAdapted from Aesthetics Wiki.\n\n\n\nOverview\n\nHistory: emerged as Base Academic in 1993, mainstreamed as Base Core from 2000 to date.\nVisuals: [ (square-bracket selector), $ (dollar selector), ~ (formula-form tilde).\nMedia: Writing R Extensions, the R-help mailing list, that textfile with a Y2K warning that came bundled with R v1.0.\nFashion: cardigans, a wired mouse with a ball in it, the old-school IDE you get when you click ‘R.app’ instead of ‘RStudio.app’.\nPalette: grey.\nNearest aesthetic: Chaotic Academia, which ‘acknowledges the pretentiousness of classic academia, subtly mocking it at times’.\n\n\n\nSample\nClassic stuff. Typical base-R code uses a lot of intermediate assignment to create temporary objects for further manipulation. Many actions make use of square bracket notation to indicate some action over rows and columns of a data.frame. Data.frame columns have to be called within the context of the data.frame they belong to, using dollar or square-bracket notation. The tilde is used for formula notation (‘this given that’).\n\n\nSet up demo data\n\n\nsuppressPackageStartupMessages(library(dplyr))\nsw_a <- starwars[, c(\"name\", \"species\", \"height\")]\nsw_b <- starwars[, c(\"name\", \"homeworld\")]\n\n\n\nx <- sw_a[sw_a$species == \"Human\", names(sw_a) != \"species\"]\nx <- merge(x, sw_b, by = \"name\")\nx$height <- x$height / 100\nx$homeworld <- ifelse(\n  !x$homeworld %in% c(\"Tatooine\", \"Naboo\"),\n  \"Other\",\n  x$homeworld\n)\nx <- aggregate(x, height ~ homeworld, mean, na.rm = TRUE)\nx <- x[order(-x$height), ]\nx\n\n  homeworld   height\n3  Tatooine 1.792500\n2     Other 1.776471\n1     Naboo 1.772000\n\n\n\n\n\nTidywave\n\n\n\nAdapted from Aesthetics Wiki.\n\n\n\nOverview\n\nHistory: humble academic origins in 2008, later popularised with the creation of the {tidyverse} in 2016.\nVisuals: %>% ({magrittr} pipe), . (data placeholder), ~ (lambda function).\nMedia: R for Data Science, conflict warnings in the console when you do library(tidyverse), that one gif of Hadley tapping merrily on an invisible keyboard (‘just typing R code!’).\nFashion: RStudio, hex stickers, rapid deprecation.\nPalette: Posit blue, yellow, and grey.\nNearest aesthetic: Corporate Memphis because I’ve literally seen it in Posit marketing.\n\n\n\nSample\nThe script reads from left-to-right and top-to-bottom, recipe style, using pipes: ‘take dataset, then do a thing, then do a thing’, etc. Each function is verb that indicates its action. Non-standard evaluation is rampant. A tilde replaces the tedious typing of function(). A titchy inconspicuous . acts as a data placeholder on the right-hand side of a pipe.\n\nsw_a %>%\n  filter(species == \"Human\") %>%\n  select(-species) %>%\n  left_join(sw_b, by = \"name\") %>%\n  mutate(\n    height = height / 100,\n    homeworld = if_else(\n      !homeworld %in% c(\"Tatooine\", \"Naboo\"),\n      \"Other\",\n      homeworld\n    )\n  ) %>%\n  summarise(\n    height = mean(height, na.rm = TRUE),\n    .by = homeworld\n  ) %>%\n  arrange(desc(height))\n\n# A tibble: 3 × 2\n  homeworld height\n  <chr>      <dbl>\n1 Tatooine    1.79\n2 Other       1.78\n3 Naboo       1.77\n\n\n\n\nV4 Punk\n\n\n\nAdapted from Aesthetics Wiki.\n\n\n\n\nOverview\n\nHistory: incremental emergence following R version 4.0 in 2020, boosted greatly in 2022 with the release of the base pipe. The future of R.\nVisuals: |> (base pipe), _ (data placeholder), \\() (lambda function).\nMedia: meme blogs, cheeky Fosstodon posts.\nFashion: hubris, evil moustaches, troll-face emojis.\nPalette: rainbow?\nNearest aesthetic: Vacation Dadcore, so you can ‘escape to a simpler time without sacrificing any of the fun’.\n\n\n\nSample\nHear me out: what if tidyverse, but made entirely of base R functions2? This is now possible with the base pipe and by using obscure functions that help you avoid square brackets3. It’s also sketchy as heck; just see the help files for subset() (‘unanticipated consequences’) and transform() (‘you deserve whatever you get!’). The death of Basecore and Tidywave, for sure.\n\nsw_a |>\n  subset(\n    species == \"Human\",\n    select = -species\n  ) |>\n  merge(sw_b, by = \"name\") |>\n  transform(\n    height = height / 100,\n    homeworld = ifelse(\n      !homeworld %in% c(\"Tatooine\", \"Naboo\"),\n      \"Other\",\n      homeworld\n    )\n  ) |>\n  aggregate(\n    height ~ homeworld, \n    \\(x) mean(x, na.rm = TRUE)\n  ) |>\n  sort_by(~ height, decreasing = TRUE)  # hot off the v4.4 press\n\n  homeworld   height\n3  Tatooine 1.792500\n2     Other 1.776471\n1     Naboo 1.772000\n\n\nCan’t wait to see this roll out into production code."
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