Publications by Mirai Solutions
Afterthoughts of e-Rum2020 in The R Journal
The conference scene has been revolutionized since e-Rum2020 took place, almost a year ago. Nowadays virtual conferences are the new normal, and e-Rum2020 was a forerunner not just in the R world but overall, having been hit by the pandemic in the middle of its organization. e-Rum2020 Organizing Committee, in which Miraiers Francesca and Riccar...
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Spring Cleaning Tips – Make proper Shiny development
How to apply the spring cleaning principles and advanced programming to your Shiny App. 1. Deep breeze and allocate some time Do not avoid spring cleaning simply because you don’t know where to start from. Prioritize some time for the task and get inspired by our following points. 2. Get things organized = Put your app in a package Before sta...
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XLConnect on Mirai Techguides
New XLConnect technical chapter in our open-source techguides. XLConnect is a well established R package that enables an easy interface to Microsoft Excel. At Mirai, we have R specialists working in the financial services industry, where it is practically impossible to avoid MS Excel. Indeed, in many organizations it’s probably still the most...
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New on Techguides: manage dependencies with renv
Concepts like reproducibility, integrity and collaborative development are a “must” for using R in production. Among other common best practices (modularize your code, structure it as a package, define unit testing and automate with CI / CD pipelines), managing code dependencies is a fundamental step for ensuring quality and robustness of yo...
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A robust Shiny App up to Production
A combo of 2 workshops to learn from professionals the best practices to build a Shiny App and bring it to Production. Wait a second. What do we mean by ‘production’? Production is the environment where end-users and customers are going to use the Shiny App and where you definitively want to avoid something going wrong. At this stage, the Sh...
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Mirai Covid-19 App is one year old
A year of Shiny development to continuously catch-up with the worldwide epidemic Covid-19. Back in March a year ago, we were all hit by the fist wave of Covid-19, stupefied, confined at home and with wish of doing something for the community, and at the same time with the curiosity to know more ourselves about this situation. As Miraiers, being ...
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Workshop 31.03.21: ‘Bring a Shiny App to Production’
A 3 hours, hands-on workshop about safe, agile and automated deployment of a Shiny App. We will be closing our second workshops series about R Shiny Development with the topic of bringing a Shiny App safely to production. Overview of the workshop steps: Bring a Shiny App to Production Guided by an expert trainer, you will set-up a toy Shiny App...
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Learning Shiny: the end-to-end workshop series
After four hands-on workshops our journey has reached its conclusion. This March, Mirai’s workshops initiative focused on a topic of wide interest in the R Community: development of shiny apps. We undertook the journey from creating a first shiny application all the way to bringing it safely to production. With this series we shared our in-dep...
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Exciting upcoming workshops ahead!
After the success of the past series, new workshops are planned for the upcoming months! In the past year Mirai’s efforts towards knowledge sharing with the community have increased and we have had two very successful runs of online workshop series. While the first series included introductions to R, shiny and agile development, the second was...
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R user or R Developer? Panel Discussion at useR!2021
R User or R Developer? Attend our Panel Discussion at useR!2021 on Tuesday July 6th at 4 pm UTC (agenda). According to the Stackoverflow Survey R is among the most popular programming, scripting, and markup languages. A key factor in its popularity is without any doubt its approachability for people without a software engineering background. In ...
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