R Shiny bslib – How to Work With Bootstrap Themes in Shiny
R Shiny bslib is a package that makes working with Bootstrap themes a breeze. Let’s face it – Shiny apps look dull and mainstream by default. Not everyone has a...continue reading.
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Fantasy Football Weekly Cheat Sheet: Week 2 (2022)
Week 2 Cheat Sheet and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Better late than never! *The featured image was generated by OpenAIs DALL-E using the prompt “NFL Football Field in[…]...continue reading.
Retrieving user access list to all reports in your PowerBI tenant using Powershell
From previous blogpost(s): Ever wanted to get the list of all users and their access to reports? The snippet below will return you just that. The list of: This way,...continue reading.
R Shiny & FontAwesome Icons – How to Use Them in Your Dashboards
If there’s one thing that can make your dashboards more intuitive to use, it’s icons. High-quality SVG icons can further explain, or sometimes replace long sections of text, and give...continue reading.
Mayo Clinic Announces Move from SAS’ JMP to BlueSky Statistics
At the useR! 2022 Conference, the world-renowned Mayo Clinic announced that after 20 years of using SAS Institute’s JMP software, they have migrated to the BlueSky Statistics user interface for...continue reading.
Fantasy Football Weekly Cheat Sheet: Week 1 (2022)
Brand new season, no Buzzsaws yet! Week 1 Cheat Sheet and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. *The featured image was generated by OpenAIs DALL-E using the prompt “Football Field[…]...continue reading.
Free MOOC course at openHPI.de: Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis (starts 25 Jan 2023)
Details here: https://open.hpi.de/courses/bayesian-statistics2023continue reading.
Professional Shiny App UI and Layouts with imola and shiny.fluent
Shiny as a web framework is known for its combination of power, simplicity, and flexibility. It’s a convenient tool for app development at all levels, from proof of concept to...continue reading.
Retrieving list of users for all workspaces in your PowerBI tenant using Powershell
From previous blogpost(s): Determining and checking who has access to a particular workspace in your organisation can be time consuming task. You can always retrieve the list of workspaces and...continue reading.
Webscraping Dynamic Websites with R
In this post, you’ll learn how to scrape dynamic websites in R using {RSelenium} and {rvest}. Although some basic knowledge of rvest, HTML, and CSS is required, I will explain...continue reading.
optimal Gaussian zorbing
A zorbing puzzle from the Riddler: cover the plane with four non-intersecting disks of radius one towards getting the highest probability (under the standard bivariate Normal distribution). As I could...continue reading.
Little useless-useful R functions – Drawing randomly generated @Github contribution graph
Github is collecting various images on their Instagram and Twitter that looks like a contribution graph. Well, why not create one in R with randomly generated data and the use...continue reading.
the Kelly criterion and then some
The Kelly criterion is a way to optimise an unlimited sequence of bets under the following circumstances: a probability p of winning each bet, a loss of a fraction a...continue reading.
SAS vs R Programming: Which to Choose and How to Switch
SAS is losing its footing across industries due to the rise of Shiny, an R package giving users bespoke interactivity on top of their R routines. In this article, we’ll...continue reading.
luz 0.3.0
luz version 0.3.0 is now on CRAN. luz is a high-level interface for torch.continue reading.
Why Posit Means Growth for the R Community
Whether you heard it in person at rstudio::conf(2022) or caught the news through the internet grapevine, RStudio PBC is rebranding itself to – Posit PBC. As with most changes, this...continue reading.
R Markdown Tips: Code, Images, Comments, Tables, and more
R Markdown is a format for writing reproducible, dynamic reports with R. The output from R Markdown is a markdown file that contains chunks of embedded R code. With R...continue reading.
Bootstrapping An {ojs} Quarto Document With An Observable Notebook
Quarto is amazing! And, it’s eating the world! OK. Perhaps not the entire world. But it’s still amazing! If you browse around the HQ, you’ll find many interesting notebooks. You...continue reading.
Little useless-useful R functions – Greedy Salesman
Travelling Salesman Problem is an NP-complete problem and an old mathematical problem. For this useless function, we will look for the nearest city from the previous city (or starting point)...continue reading.
Observe Function in R Shiny – How to Implement a Reactive Observer
It’s easy to get down the basics of R and Shiny, but the learning curve becomes significantly steeper after a point. Reactive values? Reactive events? Reactive observers? Let’s face it...continue reading.
