Solving Advent of Code 2020-09 with R & Neo4j. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler about Advent of Code. Instructions We have a XMAS code, which: Start with 25 numbers Any following number should be the su... [Read more...]

Hey internet, it’s me again! If you follow this blog, you’ve seen two weeks ago that we launched a “Run for RLadies” online event, where you could sponsor runners from the RStats Strava Club (and others), by matching 1$/€ by km run during a run made o... [Read more...]

Hey internet! Around two weeks ago I started a club on Strava called “The RStats Strava Club”, with no real idea in mind, I just wanted to virtually gather runners from the R community, the one that I already know, and the one I didn’t know yet. It wa... [Read more...]

I’m a big fan of how dependencies are managed in the NodeJS world, be it internally when developing, or when it comes to where they are hosted (i.e via npm, the Node Package Manager). Of course it has its downside (that I won’t be talking about her... [Read more...]

Hey y’all! I’m very happy to announce that my {hexmake} application has won one of the 5 Grand Prizes of the 2020 shiny contest, organized by RStudio! {hexmake} is a pretty simple application when it comes to its idea: building hex stickers. But ... [Read more...]

Have you ever been looking for a ready to use database while doing training? Search no more, this docker is an image with a client review database dropped inside a postgre, to be used for teaching. About the dataset The titles and comments are extrac... [Read more...]

Introducing hordes, a module that makes R available from NodeJS. About General philosophy The general idea of hordes is that NodeJS is the perfect tool when it comes to HTTP i/o, hence we can leverage the strength of this ecosystem to build Web Serv... [Read more...]

One of the things that we keep promoting in the ThinkR team are good practices for production software engineering in R. Of course, that implies Shiny Applications—and even more if we introduce the {golem} package, which promotes good practices for “production-grade” Shiny application. But let’s take a step ... [Read more...]

Hey Shiny devs of the world! I’m leading a training in July about building a Shiny application for production. It will be a 10 half-day session, with everything happening remotely, meaning that you can attend from anywhere in the world ????. During ... [Read more...]

How to fetch API results from client-side in a Shiny app and send them to R. Why on earth? Good question! Why on earth would you want your Shiny application to make API requests from the User Interface (i.e. from the browser)? Right now, if your app... [Read more...]

Mr A Bichat was looking for a way to bundle a NodeJS module inside an R package. Here is an attempt at a reproducible example, that might also help others! About NodeJS Packages There are two ways to install NodeJS packages: globally and locally. Th... [Read more...]

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I’ve recently been building a package to interact with the Rocket.chat API. One thing I don’t like about building API wrapper is that it’s very repetitive: you have to copy and paste things over and over again, for each endpoint of the API. Argum... [Read more...]

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Solving Advent of Code 2019-07 with R. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler about Advent of Code, as it gives solutions for solving day 7. Instructions Find the instructions at: https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/7 R solution ve... [Read more...]

Solving Advent of Code 2019-06 with R (and no JavaScript this time). [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler about Advent of Code, as it gives solutions for solving day 6. Instructions Find the instructions at: https://adventofcode.... [Read more...]

Solving Advent of Code 2019-05 with R and JavaScript. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler about Advent of Code, as it gives solutions for solving day 5. [Disclaimer bis] I’m no JavaScript expert so this might not be the perfect... [Read more...]

Solving Advent of Code 2019-04 with R and JavaScript. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler about Advent of Code, as it gives solutions for solving day 4. [Disclaimer bis] I’m no JavaScript expert so this might not be the perfect... [Read more...]