Publications by Dean Attali's R Blog
Building Shiny apps – an interactive tutorial
If you want tutoring/training in Shiny or need help with building a Shiny app, I’m available for hire. Shiny is a package from RStudio that can be used to build interactive web pages with R. While that may sound scary because of the words “web pages”, it’s geared to R users who have 0 experience with web development, and you do not need t...
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Building Shiny apps – an interactive tutorial
This tutorial was originally developed for the STAT545 course at UBC, but I decided to publish it shortly afterwards so that more people can benefit from it Shiny is a package from RStudio that can be used to build interactive web pages with R. While that may sound scary because of the words “web pages”, it’s geared to R users who have 0 e...
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ezknitr: R package to avoid the typical working directory pain when using knitr
A new package has hit the CRAN shelves this week. While knitr is one of the most useful R packages in existence, ezknitr is a simple extension to it that adds flexibility in several ways. One common source of frustration with knitr is that it assumes the directory where the source file lives should be the working directory, which is often not tr...
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ezknitr: R package to avoid the typical working directory pain when using knitr
A new package has hit the CRAN shelves this week. While knitr is one of the most useful R packages in existence, ezknitr is a simple extension to it that adds flexibility in several ways. One common source of frustration with knitr is that it assumes the directory where the source file lives should be the working directory, which is often not tr...
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Need any more reason to love R-Shiny? Here: you can even use Shiny to create simple games!
TL;DR Click here to play a puzzle game written entirely in Shiny (source code). Anyone who reads my blog posts knows by now that I’m very enthusiastic about Shiny (the web app framework for R – if you didn’t know what Shiny is then I suggest reading my previous post about it). One of my reasons for liking Shiny so much is that you can do so...
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Need any more reason to love R-Shiny? Here: you can even use Shiny to create simple games!
Anyone who reads my blog posts knows by now that I’m very enthusiastic about Shiny (the web app framework for R – if you didn’t know what Shiny is then I suggest reading my previous post about it). One of my reasons for liking Shiny so much is that you can do so much more with it than what it was built for, and it’s fun to think of new us...
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An awesome RStudio addin for selecting colours, and another for adding marginal density plots to ggplot2
TL;DR: There’s a colour picker addin in shinyjs and a ggplot2 marginal plots addin in ggExtra. Any R user who hasn’t been spending the past 2 months under a rock should know by now about RStudio’s new exciting features: addins and gadgets. (In case you don’t know, here’s a summary: Gadgets are simply Shiny apps that return a value, and...
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List of useful RStudio addins made by useRs
RStudio’s new feature of supporting addins is great. It’s about 2 months old now, and I think one of the main problems right now is discoverability: there’s just no easy way to find addins or publish your own. As a first attempt at making addins more discoverable, I started a GitHub repo listing some addins, with the hope that other useRs w...
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addinslist package: An RStudio addin to discover and install RStudio addins
RStudio addins were released in early 2016 to provide anyone with the ability to add “extensions” to RStudio. This feature has quickly become popular, but discoverability was a problem: there was just no easy way to know what addins exist. To address that issue, one month ago I created a GitHub repo with a list of RStudio addins that was mean...
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addinslist package: An RStudio addin to discover and install RStudio addins
RStudio addins were released in early 2016 to provide anyone with the ability to add “extensions” to RStudio. This feature has quickly become popular, but discoverability was a problem: there was just no easy way to know what addins exist. To address that issue, one month ago I created a GitHub repo with a list of RStudio addins that was mean...
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