Publications by Sebastian Wolf
How to get people R ready in an hour — Thor’s Hammer
Use Thor’s hammer to get data scientists ready to work faster than you ever thought. Thor’s hammer just needs 5 pieces and you and your new employees are good to go.“assorted-type hand tool lot” by Ashim D’Silva on UnsplashWelcome to your new office! Let’s take a look into your computer with your supervisor next to you saying:Here ...
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How to build a shiny “truck”
This story was already published in RViews. It describes how it is possible to build a large scale shiny app without getting lost in code.All code of this story can be checked out at: https://github.com/zappingseb/biowarptruckLast month, at the R/Pharma conference that took place on the Harvard Campus, I presented bioWARP, a large Shiny applicat...
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7 steps that make custom inputs in shiny easy
7 easy steps to custom inputs in shinyA step by step guide on how to include custom inputs into R Shiny. This guide is going through an example of a custom input build from jQuery. After the tutorial you will be able to: Build your own front-end elements in shiny AND receive their values in R.Why a second guide on building custom shiny inputs?...
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Why do we need human readable tests for a programming language?
Software can save lifes! — R and Python programming language rank in the Top10 of programming languages today. Both languages come out of open-source and research environments and are now moving into the industry. Testing software is really essential in industry. Why to talk about human readable tests?Let me introduce you to my working env...
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Interesting packages taken from R/Pharma
A few month ago I joined the R/Pharma conference in Cambridge, MA. As a take away I thought of my project and how I can improve, with solutions others provided. Mainly solutions in R are R-packages. So I’m a R-Shiny programmer in a regulated environment, so the list of the solutions I took are mainly helping you, if you are providing a) Shi...
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Interesting packages taken from R/Pharma
A few month ago I joined the R/Pharma conference in Cambridge, MA.As a take away I thought of my project and how I can improve, with solutions others provided. Mainly solutions in R are R-packages. So I’m a R-Shiny programmer in a regulated environment, so the list of the solutions I took are mainly helping you, if you are providing a) Shiny Ap...
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Very shiny holidays
How would I miss to program just a little bit during the holiday season? But I didn’t want to work on something serious, so I decided to checkout some ground work on R-Shiny + JQuery + CSS. The result are some nice holiday greetings inside a shiny app: I just googled CSS + holidays and what I found was this article on CSS for the holidays. Th...
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Very shiny holidays!
How would I miss to program just a little bit during the holiday season? But I didn’t want to work on something serious, so I decided to checkout some ground work on R-Shiny + JQuery + CSS. The result are some nice holiday greetings inside a shiny app:An app to greet your family with shinyI just googled CSS + holidays and what I found was thi...
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Music listener statistics: last.fm’s last.year as an R package
When starting analyzing last.fm scrobbles with the last.week and last.year function I was always missing some plots or a pure data table. That is why I developed the package “analyzelastfm” as a simple R6 implementation. I wanted to have different album statistics, as e.g the #of plays per album, divided by the # of tracks on the album. This ...
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Music listener statistics: last.fm’s last.year as an R package
When starting analyzing last.fm scrobbles with the last.week and last.year function I was always missing some plots or a pure data table. That is why I developed the package “analyzelastfm” as a simple R6 implementation. I wanted to have different album statistics, as e.g the #of plays per album, divided by the # of tracks on the album. This ...
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