The new version of {golem} is now available! You can download it from your favorite CRAN repository, or by running the following command: remotes::install_github( “thinkr-open/[email protected]” ) What’s up with this new version? In this release, we have been focusing on a closer integration of tests inside the application building process, notably via Server function testing with Shiny, adding tests to ...

{fusen} gets some maturity! v0.3 is a big rebranding for a more fluid experience, from beginners to advanced developers. Creating a fully documented and tested package has never been so easy and enjoyable. Experience “Rmd first” to the fullest. At first, I imagined {fusen} to help beginners start building R packages. Following the ‘Rmd first’ method, I am convinced that ...

A new version of {attachment} is available on CRAN. Get dependencies installed from GitHub, GitLab, … and add the link to the ‘Remotes’ field in the DESCRIPTION file of your package. install.packages(“attachment”) While waiting for CRAN release, you can install from GitHub: remotes::install_github(“ThinkR-open/[email protected]”) {attachment} helps you deal with dependencies during your package development. All packages used in your code needs ...

We are often asked how to perform row-wise operations in a data.frame (or a tibble) the answer is, as usual, “it depends” 🙂 Let’s look at some cases that should fit your needs. library(tidyverse) Let’s make an example dataset: base <- tibble::tibble( a = 1:10, b = 1:10, c = 21:30 ) %>% head() base ## # A tibble: 6 ...

It is with great pleasure that we can announce that the paper version of the book “Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps” is available. It is published in the R Series by Chapman & Hall. If you want to use shiny with rigour , and use this techno to push your applications into production, this book is for you. The ThinkR team ...

You regularly create projects on GitLab with a common skeleton, you want to retrieve the list of GitLab issues to create a report, you are looking for batch modifications of your projects? Use the GitLab API from your preferred programming language R. Communicate with GitLab API from R Here is a small example as issued from the {gitlabr} Readme on ...

With first version of {fusen} 0.2.4 now available on CRAN, you do not have any excuses not to try it in your daily workflows. install.packages(“fusen”) Add new documented and tested functionalities in an existing package If you already develop packages, {fusen} is for you. Developing a package requires to write some code and examples in multiple places: “R/”, “tests/”, “vignettes/”. ...

The new version of {golem} (0.3.1) has been available on CRAN 🎉 for about a month now. This new version includes a lot of new things, but we notably focused on working on two important new features: allowing you to extend {golem} via templates, and supporting for the latest changes in {shiny}. Extending {golem} One of the challenges when it ...

With our “PROPRE” Project Guide, get a publishing committee and a development team to collaborate on creating your automated reports using the “PROPRE” methodology. Follow our suggestions for organization, tools and R development practices, for a controlled and benevolent DevOps practice. It is possible to collaborate around git in a team composed of developers and non developers. In this guide ...

In the same way you fall learning to walk, you make mistakes learning R. The goal of this article was to regroup the most common mistakes one makes while learning R and to explain them in order for you you know how to fix them. Facing an issue, the most important advice would be : “Read the error message”. It ...

You know how to build a Rmardown, you were told or would like to put your work in a R package, but you think this is too much work? You do not understand where to put what and when? What if writing a Rmd was the same as writing a package? Follow the “Rmd-first” method and let {fusen} guide you ...

New version of {attachment} has been published on CRAN ! We continue to improve its functionalities to help you deal with dependencies in R, in particular during package development. Since our last blog post presenting the aim of {attachment}, two versions reached CRAN. The full documentation is available on the {pkgdown} website : https://thinkr-open.github.io/attachment. Still, for package developers, att_amend_desc() keeps ...

To ensure the reproducibility of your projects, you can develop in the Docker container that you will use to share your work. Indeed, what to do when your data analyses, publications, models are used by users with different versions of operating systems and R packages R? How do you ensure that your Dockerfile delivered with your package or project is ...

At the last Raddicts Paris Meetup, Romain Francois (to be followed on twitter here) made one strong impression, among others, with his RStudio console which indicates the active git branch and the RAM memory used by R. If you too want to have this (to shine in society or because you spend your time doing git checkout):   Here is ...

While working on our {gitdown} package, I wanted to show more information on the report generated by retrieving all issues of my Gitlab / Github repositories. Indeed, titles of issues could improve readability and information of the git report of this package. How can I download all issues information from git repositories? Context of {gitdown} development {gitdown} is a package ...

You have been working for years on your R scripts, and saved all versions as “script_v1.R”, “script_v2.R”, “script_v2_best-of-the-world.R”, … One day, you heard about git, a versioning system that allows you to make your files travel through time. But, how to transform a directory of falsely versioned files into a git repository and synchronize it online? Originally, I wanted to ...