January 21, 2021
parsermd is a new R package for parsing and programmatically interacting with R Markdown (Rmd) documents.
January 21, 2021
Shiny's 1.6 has a new function, bindCache(), which makes it easy to dramatically speed up reactive expressions and output rendering functions.
January 21, 2021
Learn how to handle 100GBs of data with ease using {disk.frame} - the larger-than-RAM-data manipulation package.
January 21, 2021
This talk will walk through building a self-contained randomized study using Shiny and learnr modules.
January 21, 2021
xaringan is a quirky package that extends R Markdown to create beautiful web-based HTML slides.
January 21, 2021
plumber is an R package that allows users to create web APIs by decorating R functions using roxygen2-like comments.
January 21, 2021
Tracking down performance issues in R code usually means using R's built-in Rprof() profiler or one of the packages built around it.
January 21, 2021
R is unparalleled in its ability to transform raw data into a wide array of beautiful graphics, all within the same environment.
February 5, 2020
Technical debt is a big problem for the R community. Even though R has excellent support for testing, documentation and packaging code it has the reputation that it is not suitable for production...
January 31, 2020
The use of list-columns in data frames and tibbles is well documented (e.g. Bryan, 2018), providing a cognitively efficient way to organize results of complex data (e.g. several statistical models...
January 31, 2020
In Tidyverse grammars such as dplyr you can refer to the columns in your data frames as if they were objects in the workspace. This syntax is optimised for interactivity and is a great fit for data...
January 31, 2020
Like it or not, SQL is the closest thing we have to a universal language for working with structured data. Celebrating its 50th birthday in 2020, SQL today integrates with thousands of applications...
January 31, 2020
Vega-lite is a high-level grammar of interactive graphics implemented in Javascript; it renders interactive visualizations in the browser based on a JSON specification.
January 30, 2020
The base R types of vectors enable the representation of an amazingly wide array of data types. There is so much you can do with R.
January 30, 2020
Ensuring the quality of data we deliver to customers or provide as inputs to models is often one of the most under-appreciated and yet time-consuming responsibilities of a modern data scientist.
January 30, 2020
Steve Weston's foreach package defines a simple but powerful framework for map/reduce and list-comprehension-style parallel computation in R.
January 30, 2020
One of the greatest strength of R is the ease and speed of developing a prototype (let it be a report or dashboard, a statistical model or rule-based automation to solve a business problem...
January 30, 2020
Future is a minimal and unifying framework for asynchronous, parallel, and distributed computing in R.
January 30, 2020
Open source R packages on GitHub often take advantage of continuous integration services to automatically check their packages for errors.
January 30, 2020
Writing regular R code is straightforward: you tell R to do something, it does it, and then it returns control back to you.
January 25, 2019
In practice there are two main flavors of tidy eval functions: functions that select columns, such as `dplyr::select()`, and functions that operate on columns, such as `dplyr::mutate()`.
January 25, 2019
vctrs is a new package that provides tools (cognitive and computational) to ensure that functions behave consistently with respect to inputs of varying length and type. The end goal of vctrs is...
January 24, 2019
The main goals of pkgman is to make package installation fast and more reliable. This allows new, simpler and safer workflows, such as separate package libraries for projects.
January 24, 2019
What does it mean to say software is, to quote one Twitter user, ‘so f***ing magical!’? In the context of our popular community hobby of rating and sharing R packages, the term ‘magic’ seems...
January 24, 2019
My talk will discuss how R, the Tidyverse, and the community around R helped me to learn to code and create my first R package. My positive experiences with the resources for learning R and...
January 24, 2019
The "tidy eval" framework is implemented in the rlang package and is rolling out in packages across the Tidyverse and beyond. There is a lively conversation these days, as people come to terms with...
January 24, 2019
Software dependencies can often be a double-edged sword. On one hand, they let you take advantage of others' work, giving your software marvelous new features and reducing bugs.
January 24, 2019
Rtools is getting a major upgrade. In addition to the latest gcc, it now includes a full build system and package manager to build, install, and distribute external c/c++/fortran libraries needed...
