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Adolfo Álvarez

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Adolfo Álvarez's personal blog at adolfoalvarez.cl covers data and programming. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Hadleyverse”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

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Why HN links it

HN links this post as a guide to the Hadleyverse, the R package ecosystem built around Hadley Wickham's work. The one comment offers it as a shorter name for that ecosystem.

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Hi! Welcome to my website. My name is Adolfo, and I work as a senior data scientist at O-I , where we are making what matters . I am a

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Hadleyverse
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Or more concisely, the Hadleyverse. [0] [0] http://adolfoalvarez.cl/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-hadleyv...

    Comment linking /the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-hadleyverse/

    on “Swirl: Learn R, in R”
  2. Submitted Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Hadleyverse as a story · 2 points

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