tl;dr A quick and dirty R function to assign abstracts to sifters. Assign me up I hacked together a function to assign submitted conference abstracts to sifters for assessment. At its simplest you give it two dataframes: one with a row per abstract, one with a row per sifter. You receive back a list, one element per sifter, with the abstracts they’ve been assigned. There were several criteria that complicated things. The function: tries to make assignment counts equal between sifters where ...