Publications by Dean Attali's R Blog

colourpicker: A colour picker widget for Shiny apps, RStudio, R-markdown, and ‘htmlwidgets’

15.08.2016

Have you ever wanted to allow your users to select colours in your Shiny apps? Have you ever wanted to select a few colours to use in your R code, but found it tedious to search for the right colours? If you answered yes to any of those questions, or if you’re just curious, then colourpicker is the package for you! The new colourpicker package ...

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Visualizing when I’m most productive during the day

19.08.2016

Analyzing my (and others’) git activity – Click here to explore the data yourself Yesterday I saw this retweet from @timelyportfolio that links to a gist by @gka. The gist gave a few short scripts that can show you when your git commits take place during the day. I thought that was cool, so I took it a step (or five) further by writing...

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Visualizing when I’m most productive during the day

19.08.2016

Analyzing my (and others’) git activity – Click here to explore the data yourself Yesterday I saw this retweet from @timelyportfolio that links to a gist by @gka. The gist gave a few short scripts that can show you when your git commits take place during the day. I thought that was cool, so I took it a step (or five) further by writi...

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Shiny tips & tricks for improving your apps and solving common problems

29.08.2016

This document contains a collection of various Shiny tricks that I commonly use or that I know many people ask about. Each link contains a complete functional Shiny app that demonstrates how to perform a non trivial task in Shiny. The complete up-to-date list of tips, along with all the code, is on GitHub. Click here to see the most up-to-date l...

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Shiny tips & tricks for improving your apps and solving common problems

29.08.2016

This document contains a collection of various Shiny tricks that I commonly use or that I know many people ask about. Each link contains a complete functional Shiny app that demonstrates how to perform a non trivial task in Shiny. The complete up-to-date list of tips, along with all the code, is on GitHub. Click here to see the most up-to-date li...

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How to write a useful htmlwidgets in R: tips and walk-through a real example

18.10.2016

I’d like to share some tips and recommendations on building htmlwidgets, based on my own learning experience while creating timevis. These tips are mostly concerned with making your htmlwidget more useful and user friendly. In this post, every tip I provide will be followed by an actual code walk-through so that you can see it applied in a real...

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How to write a useful htmlwidgets in R: tips and walk-through a real example

18.10.2016

I’d like to share some tips and recommendations on building htmlwidgets, based on my own learning experience while creating timevis. These tips are mostly concerned with making your htmlwidget more useful and user friendly. In this post, every tip I provide will be followed by an actual code walk-through so that you can see it applied in a real...

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Useful tools for shiny developers in the new version of shinyjs

07.11.2016

shinyjs is a package that helps you easily improve the user interaction and user experience in your shiny apps. It has come a long way in the 1.5 years since it was first released, and today I’m happy to announce that version 0.8 is now on CRAN. This version brings two new features that are used primarily to make the process of developing a sh...

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Plot Colour Helper – Finally an easy way to pick colours for your R plots!

09.01.2017

You’ve just made an amazing plot in R, and the only thing remaining is finding the right colours to use. Arghhh this part is never fun… You’re probably familiar with this loop: try some colour values -> plot -> try different colours -> plot -> repeat. Don’t you wish there was a better way? Well, now there is 🙂 If you’ve ever had to s...

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Plot Colour Helper – Finally an easy way to pick colours for your R plots!

09.01.2017

You’ve just made an amazing plot in R, and the only thing remaining is finding the right colours to use. Arghhh this part is never fun… You’re probably familiar with this loop: try some colour values -> plot -> try different colours -> plot -> repeat. Don’t you wish there was a better way? Well, now there is 🙂 If you’ve ever had to s...

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