Publications by The Jumping Rivers Blog
Talks to watch at the RSS International Conference
The RSS International Conference 2022 is happening next week from 12-15 September 2022, hosted in Aberdeen for the first time! Jumping Rivers are exhibiting at the conference, as well as delivering workshops and talks. These are a couple of the sessions we’re looking forward to the most! Highlights Spatial modelling and visualisation using R an...
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Python application deployment with RStudio Connect: Streamlit
This is the final part of our three part series Part 1: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: Flask Part 2: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: FastAPI Part 3: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: Streamlit (this post) RStudio Connect is a platform which is well known for providing the ability to deploy and share R applicat...
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API as a package: Structure
This is part one of our three part series Part 1: API as a package: Structure (this post) Part 2: API as a package: Logging (to be published) Part 3: API as a package: Testing (to be published) Introduction At Jumping Rivers we were recently tasked with taking a prototype application built in {shiny} to a public facing production environment fo...
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API as a package: Testing
Introduction This is part the final part of our three part series Part 1: API as a package: Structure Part 2: API as a package: Logging Part 3: API as a package: Testing (this post) This blog post is a follow on to our API as a package series, which looks to expand on the topic of testing {plumber} API applications within the package structure ...
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Shiny in Production: Coming up
Shiny in Production is just around the corner. We can’t wait to welcome you all to Newcastle on Thursday and Friday. Here’s a quick round up of what you can expect! Do you require help building a Shiny app? Would you like someone to take over the maintenance burden? If so, check out our Shiny and Dash services. Workshops There are t...
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Refactoring Russian Doll Code
Refactoring Russian Doll Code Recently, I’ve been working with an environmental scientist to refactor a large R package. Let’s call her Jane. Jane inherited a mess of code, and had to get it working as quickly as possible. She tidied up it as best as she could in the time, but now that the company depended on it, it needed some attention. We ...
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Highlights from Shiny in Production (2022)
Last week, we were very excited to host our first Shiny in Production conference! Attendees gathered in The Catalyst in Newcastle for two days of workshops and talks focusing on all things related to Shiny, building dashboards, and cool things you can do in R. On day one, we ran three workshops: Jack Walton ran a workshop introducing RStudio Con...
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New features in R 4.2.0
R-4.2.0 is due to be released! Another year has passed, which means an updated version of R is due to be released – R version 4.2.0. As usual there have been many changes and improvements over the last year. This blog post only picks out a tiny handful, but there are dozens of smaller changes and bug fixes that can be found in the changelog. Pi...
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Upcoming R conferences (2022)
The daffodils are out, the sun is shining(ish), spring is in the air! And that means that it’s time to start planning for the conference season. This year we’ll be treated to a lot more in person conferences for the first time since 2020, but for those of you who either prefer the online formats, or are still a bit hesitant about attending la...
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Diffify
You know that sinking feeling that you get when you’re months into a big project and you log in one day and nothing works? Turns out something has updated and things have been removed that you needed and now you need to spend hours-days figuring out what’s changed and your masters deadline is getting closer and … ok, apparently this took me...
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