The most dramatic impact on programming in R the last years was the development of the <a href="http://tidyverse.org/">tidyverse</a> by Hadley Wickham et al. which, combined with the ingenious <code>%&gt;%</code> from magrittr, provides a uniform philosophy for handling data.</p>
<p>The genomics community has an alternative set of approaches, for which <a href="http://bioconductor.org/">bioconductor</a> and the <a href="http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/GenomicRanges.html">GenomicRanges</a