We are pleased to announce that our package {attachment} is now available on CRAN. The goal of attachment is to help to deal with package dependencies during package development. It also gives useful tools to install or list missing packages used inside Rscripts or Rmds. Deal with dependencies during package development If you ever had the following error when checking ...

Second part of the blog transcription of the talk I’ve given during the eposter session of the rstudio::conf(2019). Read the first part here. This post is at the premise of our book: https://engineering-shiny.org/. You will find all complementary information in it. Building Big Shiny Apps: step by step Step 1: Designing Don’t rush into coding. I know you want to, ...

During the rstudio::conf(2019L), I’ve presented an eposter called “Building Big Shiny Apps — A Workflow”. You can find the poster here, and this blog post is a transcription of what I’ve been explaining while presenting the poster. ...

The object oriented system is a nice and powerful way to program and to build softwares and data in R. Yet, it can be a little bit daunting at first, especially if you’ve alway been coding in R, and with functions. In this blogpost, we’ll have a look at {R6}, one of the most downloaded package from the CRAN, which ...

In this article, I will introduce the approach we use at ThinkR for Shiny applications we design. This is a relatively strict framework but designed to simplify our life and guarantee to deliver a “prod ready” application (whether it is launched locally, on shinyserver, Rconnect or via ShinyProxy with docker). This framework simplifies application maintenance and collaborative work. Edit: Better read ...