shelled and riddled
Consider a shell game with three shells and a ball where only the location of the shell with the ball is exchanged with the location of an empty shell, randomly...continue reading.
Category: R
Easy R Tutorials with Dev Containers
Ever written a tutorial for R — or simply shared some R code with someone — and been told that your code doesn’t work on their machine? There’s now an...continue reading.
R Quarto Tutorial – How To Create Interactive Markdown Documents
R Quarto is a next-gen version of R Markdown. The best thing is – it’s not limited to R programming language. It’s also available in Python, Julia, and Observable. In...continue reading.
Posit – Why Rstudio is changing its name
RStudio has officially announced a name change from RStudio to Posit. Why did RStudio change its name to Posit? For the past few years, Posit (formerly RStudio) has been shifting...continue reading.
{rspm}: easy access to RSPM binary packages with automatic management of system requirements
There are many community projects out there that provide binary R packages for various distributions. You may know Michael Rutter’s legendary c2d4u.team/c2d4u4.0+ PPA, but this situation has been greatly improved...continue reading.
Mbaza Shiny App Case Study
We care about the impact our work has on the world around us. That’s why we want to ensure our work paves the way to a sustainable future. Using 🌍Data...continue reading.
How to Use geom_smooth in R
This tutorial will show you how to use the geom_smooth function in R. It explains what geom_smooth does, explains the syntax, and shows step-by-step examples of how to use this...continue reading.
Accessibility Web Development – How to Make R Shiny Apps Accessible
It’s crucial you address R Shiny accessibility early on. Why? Because you want to make sure your data products can be used by all users – inclusivity matters. In a...continue reading.
2022 Projections & FFA App Updates
This offseason, we worked hard to update our FFA Projection and Lineup Optimizer apps. We are excited to provide the apps to our subscribers to test out and provide feedback.[…]...continue reading.
Extracting numbers from a stacked density plot
A month or so ago, I found a graph showing a percentage of PCs having a given range of memory installed, between March 2000 and April 2020, on a TechTalk...continue reading.
Goats do room
The riddle of the week is about 10 goats sequentially moving to their room, which they have chosen at random and independently (among ten rooms), unless another goat already occupies...continue reading.
Eight R Tidyverse tips for everyday data engineering
Tidyverse is a collection of R packages, primarily for data engineering and analytics. These packages are ggplot2, purrr, tibble, dplyr, tidyr, stringr, readr, and forcats. And all combine the same...continue reading.
Appsilon Staff Picks – Must See rstudio::conf(2022) Presentations
The rstudio::conf is quickly approaching and we at Appsilon are so excited. It’s like waiting for your birthday; knowing full well that there will be surprises, presents, and lots of...continue reading.
Multi-state survival modeling of a Jira issues snapshot
Work items in a formal development process progress through a series of stages, e.g., starting at Open, perhaps moving to Withdrawn or Merged with another item, eventually reaching Development, and...continue reading.
Input R Shiny: Shiny Input Examples with shiny.fluent
Creating a beautiful, professional, and user-approved UI plays a vital role in the success of any project. Applications developed using Shiny are no exception. The Shiny package comes with its...continue reading.
Introducing {weatherkit}: The Eventual Replacement R Package for {darksky}
My {darksky} package has been around for years, now, and the service that powers it was purchased by Apple before the pandemic. The DarkSky API is slated to be shuttered...continue reading.
Bayes Rules! [book review]
Bayes Rules! is a new introductory textbook on Applied Bayesian Model(l)ing, written by Alicia Johnson (Macalester College), Miles Ott (Johnson & Johnson), and Mine Dogucu (University of California Irvine). Textbook...continue reading.
R Shiny Caching – Top 3 Ways to Cache Interactive Elements in R Shiny
Are your Shiny dashboards getting slow? Maybe it’s time to explore some R Shiny caching options. We’ve been there – a client wants dozens of charts on a single dashboard...continue reading.
R Shiny Google Analytics: How to Add GA to Shiny Apps
User adoption is an important metric for any application’s success. But measuring adoption hasn’t always been a priority for Shiny developers. We think it’s time to change this. So today...continue reading.
Updated Comparison of R Graphical User Interfaces
I have just updated my detailed reviews of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for R, so let’s compare them again. It’s not too difficult to rank them based on the number of...continue reading.
