Understanding the evolving threat of snow loads with R as the great orchestrator

Our November Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event.

From our speaker:
"At the 2025 useR! conference, Simon Urbanek (President of the R Foundation) described R as a 'data analytic' language that serves as the 'orchestrator' of an analysis. This talk provides an example of that principle in action. In this talk, I describe my research team’s use of R to create climate change factors for extreme snow load design in the Conterminous United States, highlighting the many packages that play a part in the research workflow, including data management (tidyverse, sf, terra), modeling (evGam, evd, extRemes), simulation (Rcpp), visualization (ggplot), parallelization (futures), and package development (devtools). The talk highlights the ability of R to help the research seamlessly transition from basic explorations to software development, while retaining R’s superior interactivity all along the way."