Publications by Mango Solutions
What we’re excited about in the world of RStudio
Beth Ashlee, Data Scientist After the success of rstudio::conf 2017 this year the conference was back and bigger and better than ever with 1000+ attendees in sunny San Diego. Since the conference, my colleagues and I have been putting the techniques we learned into practice (which is totally why you’re only seeing this blog post now!). Day 1 �...
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EARL abstract submissions closing soon!
Time is running out for you to send in your abstract submissions for this year’s EARL Conferences. If you have an R story you’d like to share then make sure you send your abstract in before the below deadlines. Presenting at EARL gives you the opportunity to showcase what your organisation is doing with R and to share your own knowledge and e...
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What is tidy eval and why should I care?
Nic Crane, Data Scientist This article was first published on Nic Crane’s Blog and kindly contributed to the Mango Blog. I’m going to begin this post somewhat backwards, and start with the conclusion: tidy eval is important to anyone who writes R functions and uses dplyr and/or tidyr. I’m going to load a couple of packages, and then show y...
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Saddling up; getting on the hoRse for the first time
Laura Swales, Marketing and Events Assistant This year at Mango we’re proudly sponsoring the Bath Cats & Dogs Home. To start our fundraising for them, we decided to run a sweepstake on the Grand National. We asked for £2 per horse, which would go to the cats and dogs home and the winner was promised a bottle of wine for their charitable effort...
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Packaging Shiny applications: A deep dive
(Or, how to write a Shiny app.R file that only contains a single line of code) Mark Sellors, Head of Data Engineering This post is long overdue. The information contained herein has been built up over years of deploying and hosting Shiny apps, particularly in production environments, and mainly where those Shiny apps are very large and contain a ...
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EARL Houston keynote speaker announcement: Dr Robert Gentleman
EARL Houston has just got even better! Not only do we have Hadley Wickham delivering a keynote address, we also have one of R’s originators, Dr. Robert Gentleman. Robert Gentleman is the vice president of computational biology at 23andMe. His work focuses on the exploration of how human genetic and trait data in the 23andMe database can be used...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: EARL London 2018 speakers
We are excited to announce the speakers for this year’s EARL London Conference! Every year, we receive an immense number of excellent abstracts and this year was no different – in fact, it’s getting harder to decide. We spent a lot of time deliberating and had to make some tough choices. We would like to thank everyone who submitted a talk...
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EARL London Keynote Speaker announcement: Garrett Grolemund
We’re delighted to announce RStudio’s Garrett Grolemund as one of our Keynote Speakers at this year’s EARL London. He will join Starcount’s Edwina Dunn and a whole host of brilliant speakers for the 5th EARL London Conference on 11-13 September at The Tower Hotel. Garrett specialises in teaching people how to use R, which is why you’ll ...
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goodpractice 1.0.2 on CRAN
Hannah Frick, Data Scientist We are excited to annouce that the goodpractice package is now available on CRAN. The package gives advice about good practices when building R packages. Advice includes functions and syntax to avoid, package structure, code complexity, code formatting, etc. You can install the CRAN version via install.packages("goodp...
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Getting into the Rhythm: the euRovision sweepstake
Laura Swales, Marketing and Events Assistant Another month, another sweepstake to raise money for the Bath Cats & Dogs home! This time, we picked the Eurovision song contest as our sweepstake of choice. After enjoying my first experience of using R to randomise the names for the previous sweepstake I decided to give it another go, but with a fe...
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