Parameterised presentations with Quarto
Published: July 20, 2023
Learn how to generate multiple reproducible presentations at once using Quarto parameters, so you can generate e.g. one presentation for each year in your data set.
Mandy Norrbo
Create a clickable word cloud in Shiny
Published: April 27, 2023
Learn how to create a clickable word cloud that you can use as an input to e.g. filter observations displayed in a table, using wordcloud2 in a Shiny app.
Customising {shinydashboard}
Published: March 16, 2023
Sometimes you want to go beyond the default {shinydashboard} theme. This blog will take you through 3 options—built-in colours, the {fresh} package, and CSS.
Top 5 Shiny UI Packages
Published: October 27, 2022
There are an increasing number of open-source "add-on" packages that extend both the front end and the back end functionality of Shiny. This blog will highlight 5 UI add-on packages that can massively improve your user experience and also just add a bit of flair to your app.
Highlights from Shiny in Production (2022)
Published: October 13, 2022
On October 6-7 2022, Jumping Rivers hosted the Shiny in Production conference! The conference delved into the world of {shiny} and other web based R packages.
Learn D3 in RStudio with Scooby-Doo
Published: October 12, 2021
Learning D3.js can be pretty overwhelming as an R user. Luckily, the {r2d2} package lets you keep your data cleaning steps in R and easily incorporate any visualisation in R Markdown reports and R Shiny dashboards. This tutorial-style blog will take you through creating your first D3 visualisation with a bit of Scooby-Doo along the way.
Delete repositories with {gh}
Published: July 13, 2021
Forking repositories is a great way to learn from and contribute to others' code. However, you may quickly end up with a cluttered user space, with old forks lingering around. Manually removing repositories is slow and tedious. Read more to find out how you can use the {gh} package to speed up the process.
