2019-n1-Single-Function-Lightning-Talks Multiple speakers who presented lightning talks on the usefulness and applicability of a single function in R. Everything that exists in R is an object... Everything that happens in R is a function call... John Chambers, co-creator of S programming language and R core member. 1. Chase Clark - base::lengths() 2. Nathan Frey - base::cat() 3. Brandon Allen - base::merge() & base::subset() 4. Parfait Gasana - base::by() 5. Dale Rosenthal - stats::optim() 6. Justin Shea - data.table::melt() 7. Ray Buhr - future.apply::future_lapply() 8. Brian Burns - pkgnet::CreatePackageReport()