James Blair

James is a Solutions Engineer at RStudio, where he focusses on helping RStudio commercial customers successfully manage RStudio products. He is passionate about connecting R to other toolchains through tools like ODBC and APIs. He has a background in statistics and data science and finds any excuse he can to write R code.


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Using RStudio on Amazon SageMaker: Questions from the Community

January 10, 2022

We answer questions from the community on the recent integration of RStudio on Amazon Sagemaker.

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RStudio Connect 2021.09.0 Tableau Analytics Extensions

October 12, 2021

RStudio Connect introduces support for Tableau Analytics Extensions, an integration that enables you to create R or Python HTTP API extensions for use in Tableau workbooks.

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RStudio and APIs

May 4, 2021

APIs can dramatically increase the impact of data analytics by making real time results accessible to a larger audience. RStudio empowers organizations to both create and use analytic APIs.

Webinars

Expanding R Horizons: Integrating R with Plumber APIs

October 28, 2020

The Plumber package is a tool for integrating R with other frameworks and technologies

rstudio::conf 2020

Practical Plumber Patterns

January 30, 2020

Plumber is a package that allows R users to create APIs out of R functions. This flexible approach allows R processes to be accessed by toolchains and frameworks outside of R.

Webinars

RStudio local jobs and remote launcher

August 12, 2019

RStudio local jobs and remote launcher

rstudio::conf 2019

Democratizing R with Plumber APIs

January 24, 2019

The Plumber package provides an approachable framework for exposing R functions as HTTP API endpoints. This allows R developers to create code that can be consumed by downstream frameworks, which...