# Developing an R package using Julia for a statistical model

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**Created:** [October 15, 2024, 8:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/developing-an-r-package-using-julia-for-a-statistical-model/121320 "2024-10-15T08:56:31Z")\
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This is super neat and a dream of mine! Did you happen to see this discussion I wrote up trying to do something exactly like this?

> [@Pushing the Limits of Small Binary Creation](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pushing-the-limits-of-small-binary-creation/120989):
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> Hi all, quick story: It was at a hotel bar the other day that @asinghvi17 , @avik , @mortenpi , Professor Rebecca Killick, and I did an impromptu hackathon for about 5 hours to see what could be possible with the newly landed PR [add --trim option for generating smaller binaries by JeffBezanson · Pull Request #55047 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/55047) about making small binaries in Julia 1.12. Here’s a write-up of some of our findings and experimentation: juliac Is Really Great! The juliac compiler that…

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