With Christmas tomorrow we have decided to create an animated Christmas Tree using {ggplot2}, {sf} and {gganimate}. First we need a tree. To do this we have used an {sf} polygon where we pass in the coordinates of the Christmas tree as a list matrix to st_polygon. We can ...

The latest release of Posit Package Manager introduces several enhancements, including: Python Git Builders: Build Python packages (wheels) directly from Git. Blocklists: Easily block specific packages or versions. Improved Documentation: Cleare...

Positron is the new beta Data Science IDE from Posit. Though Posit have stressed that maintenance and development of RStudio will continue, I want to use this blog to explore if Positron is worth the switch. I’m coming at this from the R developm...

R Dev Day @ SIP 2024 This year Shiny in Production hosted an “R Dev Day” split over the two days before the pre-conference workshops. R Dev Days are a new initiative of the R Contribution Working Group, providing an opportunity for R ...

All of our public training courses for the first half of 2025 are now open for registration! Head over to the public courses page on our website to book in and start building your programming skills in the new year! Below is a list of all of our ...

This post is the latest in our three part series on MLOps with Vetiver, following on from: Part 1: Vetiver: First steps in MLOps Part 2: Vetiver: Model Deployment In those blogs, we introduced the {vetiver} package and its use as a tool for str...

Hot on the heels of Shiny in Production 2022 & 2023, we were excited to dive back into all things Shiny for a third consecutive year. In this post we recap the highlights from the two days of talks and workshops. Workshops As with previous it...

We are pleased to announce the full line-up for this year’s Shiny in Production conference! This year, we’re introducing a new lightning talk session. These short 5 minute talks will allow us to showcase many more uses of Shiny in Production. The conference will still feature 6 full length talks, ...

Shiny in Production is returning to the Catalyst, Newcastle upon Tyne, for its third instalment this October. We’ve expanded the itinerary this year, with four workshops to choose from as well as a day of talks, with speakers soon to be announced. Full details of the workshop are below, ...

August 2023 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the first public release of the R programming language. To celebrate this, and to show how far the language has evolved across those three decades, the timeline below shows some landmark events, p...

This is part one of a two part series on {vetiver}. Part 1: Vetiver: First steps in MLOps Part 2: Vetiver: Model Deployment (This post) Introduction In our previous blog, we provided an overview of MLOps and the {vetiver} package, creating and deploying a simple model locally. In this post, we’ll ...

This is part one of a two part series on {vetiver}. Future blogs will be linked here as they are released. Part 1: Vetiver: First steps in MLOps (This post) Part 2: Vetiver: Model Deployment (Coming soon) Most R users are familiar with the clas...

Our courses for the second half of 2024 have now been released. We have everything from the very basics of R and Python for data science, to advanced statistical modelling and machine learning. Interested in dashboards and reporting? We have cour...

Call for abstracts now open We are excited to announce the Call for Abstracts for Shiny in Production 2024, to be held on 9th-10th October 2024 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. This event brings together industry experts, data scientists, and develope...

We wanted to say a huge thank you to everybody who attended SatRdays London 2024! It was brilliant to see you all there, and we hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did. Thank you to all of our speakers for your contributions, it was great to s...

R 4.4.0 (“Puppy Cup”) was released on the 24th April 2024 and it is a beauty. In time-honoured tradition, here we summarise some of the changes that caught our eyes. R 4.4.0 introduces some cool features (one of which is experimental) and makes one of our favourite {rlang} operators available in base R. ...

SatRdays London 2024 Once again, we’re partnering up with CUSP London to bring you a day of R themed talks in the centre of the UK capital. We’ll be returning to the amazing Bush House to hear experts in all things R share their knowl...

This is part of a series of related posts on Apache Arrow. Other posts in the series are: Understanding the Parquet file format Reading and Writing Data with {arrow} (This post) Parquet vs the RDS Format (Coming soon) What is (Apache) Arrow? Ap...

Over the last few years, we have been performing audits on Posit set-ups, Shiny Applications and general R set-ups. One of our standard checks is to examine the server headers of a Shiny Server. Numerous websites do this check for you, but as we...

Part 1: Using Google Lighthouse for Web Pages Part 2: Analysing Shiny App start-up Times with Google Lighthouse Part 3: Effect of Shiny Widgets with Google Lighthouse (This post) This is the third blog in our series on the Google Lighthouse too...