Publications by The Jumping Rivers Blog
Diffify – Python release
It has been 6 months since the launch of Diffify, our website for comparing package releases. We are delighted to announce that, in addition to CRAN’s 20,000 R packages, you can now track 1600 popular Python packages! What’s included? The current criteria for a Python package to be included in Diffify are: The package is listed in the top 20...
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Learning Excel as an R user
Recently I came across a situation where I had to use Microsoft Excel for a project. As somebody who has always used R for any statistical analysis, I may not have been entirely enthusiastic about the idea of leaving R behind for the world of Excel. But I figured it would be a good time to dip my toes in. In this blog post I discuss some of the t...
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Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 2
This is part two of our two part series Part 1: Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 1 Part 2: Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 2 (this post) In Part 1 of this two-post blog series I covered contrast sensitivity and colour vision deficiencies and related terminology. Here, in Part 2, I’ll cover the changes we made to diffify.com and...
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Diffify – 3 months on
We’re now three months on from the initial release of Diffify, and what a few months it’s been! We thought now seemed like a good time to give you an overview of the big updates that Diffify has been through since it’s launch. Recognition and user feedback We are delighted to see that our app has been quickly adopted by the R community: R ...
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Highlights from rstudio::conf(2022)
July 25 – 28 2022 saw thousands of people attend rstudio::conf(2022) both in-person in Washington D.C. and virtually from all over the world, including a few of us from Jumping Rivers. Here’s a recap of the big news, and a few of our personal highlights from the conference! The secrets are out! There were a couple of big announcements during ...
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Have we got NEWS.md for you
When developing a package it is essential to track the changes you make to your code. This is especially vital if they are breaking changes which have implications for any code written that depends on your package, i.e. a major version bump. Although you can always look back at your version control history in git, it is also convenient to have do...
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Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: FastAPI
This is part two of our three part series Part 1: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: Flask Part 2: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: FastAPI (this post) Part 3: Python API deployment with RStudio Connect: Streamlit (to be published) RStudio Connect is a platform which is well known for providing the ability to deploy and shar...
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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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