Publications by Mirai Solutions
Techguides Update: Shiny CI/CD in Actions!
GitHub Actions has been maturing as a CI / CD tool, therefore we updated our techguides to focus more on it. There are many CI / CD tools available which people most often use together with GitHub. Since GitHub Actions is the first such tool that integrates with the rest of GitHub as a service, it barely requires any setup work to use it togethe...
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R user or R Developer? Your opinion matters.
What makes one an R Developer and how does it differ from being an R User? Running up to the Panel Discussion “R User or R Developer? This is the question”) at useR!2021, we have realized that there is absolutely no consensus regarding the definition of “R Developer” and “R User”. Within the relatively small amount of people we inte...
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We are e-going to useR!2021
Check out Mirai’s contributions to useR!2021. This year’s useR! conference will be held as an online event, designed to be global and give space to the amazing ecosystem that is the R Practitioners Community. The program is very interesting and inclusive, taking place almost 24 hours each day and allowing talks in languages other than englis...
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Impressions from useR! 2021
The useR! conference took place as a global online conference and we are eager to share some impressions. This year’s useR! conference was quite different from those in the past due to its virtual and global design: its schedule was almost 24/7 and organized to fit three different time zones (some introductory events occurred three times for t...
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New Workshops Series Kick-off
We are happy to announce our third series of workshops, to take place in the fall of 2021. After the success of the past series that took place at the end of last year and this year in spring we decided to offer again a series of workshops based on best development practices, R programming and shiny. On 22/09/2021 we will hold a Git & GitHub (fo...
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Mastering Git and GitHub: the hands-on workshop
Learn the basis of version control via an hands-on 3-hours workshop using command line, R, RStudio or a web browser. Have you ever feared to mess up your code, to lose your development or to spend endless time to integrate a collaborator’s work? Then the answer for you is version control. Reference xkcd comics. Git is a popular, free and open...
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R user or R Developer? The survey results
We asked this question to the Community and are now ready to present the results. Running up to the Panel Discussion “R User or R Developer? This is the question” at the useR!2021 conference, Mirai conducted a survey regarding what makes one an R Developer and how does it differ from being an R User. The Survey The Google Form survey was tak...
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Learning Path: Introduction to R
Enhance your data science toolkit with our “Introduction to R” learning path: from the basis of the syntax, to operations and functions, for solid programming foundations. R is one of the most popular programming, scripting, and markup languages. Written by statisticians for statisticians, it is an incredible tool for data exploration, data ...
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Learning Path: Shiny
Enhance your data science toolkit with our “Shiny” learning path: build your first shiny app, make it shine and robust, and bring it to production. R Shiny is empowered data science through interactive interface. By providing your code with a UI, it allows to share the power of data analysis with business users, enables decision-making throu...
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‘R basics – objects, functions and operations’ workshop
Take the first R steps and enhance your data science toolkit with us on October 20th! Would you like to discover the basics of R programming and get solid foundations for future learning? Even if you are an absolute beginner, the workshop “R basics – objects, functions and operations” workshop is designed to give you an overview of the bas...
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