The “nhsnumber” package and the joy of sharing your niche
Being the author of a package with tens of thousands of users must be incredibly rewarding. All those people getting [Read more...]
Articles by Mark Sellors
New from RStudio: Package Manager
One of the few remaining hurdles when working with R in the enterprise is consistent access to CRAN. Often desktop class systems will have unrestricted access while server systems might not have any access at all. This inconsistency often stems from security concerns about allowing servers access to the internet. ...
Running Python inside the RStudio Server IDE
A great many R users will have to run some python code from time to time, and this short video from our Head of Data Engineering, Mark Sellors outlines one approach you can take that doesn’t mean leaving the RStudio IDE. [Read more...]
Top Tip: Don’t keep your data prep in the same project as your Shiny app
If you use RStudio Connect to publish your Shiny app (and even if you don’t) take care with how your arrange your projects. If you have a single project that includes both your data prep and your Shiny app, packrat (which RSConnect uses to resolve package dependencies for your ... [Read more...]
Customising Shiny Server HTML Pages
Mark Sellors Head of Data Engineering At Mango we work with a great many clients using the Shiny framework for R. Many of those use Shiny Server or Shiny Server Pro to publish their shiny apps within their organisations. Shiny … Continue reading → [Read more...]
Shiny Based Tablet or Desktop App
Mark Sellors Head of Data Engineering Turn a shiny application into a tablet or desktop app Since we first demoed it at our really successful trip to Strata London last year, a few people have asked us how we made … Continue reading → [Read more...]
Production R at ONS
Mark Sellors Head of Data Engineering I’ve recently been working at the Office for National Statistics, under the very broad umbrella of a SAS to R transition project. As you might imagine, ONS, as the UK’s largest producer of official … Continue reading → [Read more...]
The Wizarding World of rstudio::conf 2017
After the success of last January’s “Shiny Dev Con“, our friends at RStudio are back with their first full-blown conference, “rstudio::conf“. Like our own EARL Conference, rstudio::conf was preceeded by training courses from 3 of RStudio’s big names, Hadley Wickham, … Continue reading → [Read more...]
Geographic data to service the needs of a remote employee – part1
By Ava Yang Background Ever since I started working remotely, some friends suggested “Why not work as usual as you travel across China, instead of staying in Shanghai?” Many cool people have practiced the lifestyle, but most of the time … Continue reading → [Read more...]
The Case for a Data Science Lab
By Mark Sellors, Technical Architect – Mango Solutions As more and more Data Science moves from individuals working alone, with small data sets on their laptops, to more productionised, or analytically mature settings, an increasing number of restrictions are being … Continue reading → [Read more...]
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