Hosting RStudio Server on Azure

Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now. Host RStudio server on an azure instance. Configure the instance to access RStudio with a nice url. Getting started: Azure is cloud computing framework provided by Microsoft, the same idea as AWS by Amazon.

Competition: StanCon 2018 ticket

Today we are happy to announce our Stan contest. Something we feel very strongly at Jumping Rivers is giving back to the community. We have benefited immensely from hard work by numerous people, so when possible, we try to give something back.

Comparing plotly & ggplotly plot generation times

The {plotly} package. A godsend for interactive documents, dashboard and presentations. For such documents, there is no doubt that anyone would prefer a plot created in {plotly} rather than {ggplot2}. Why? Using {plotly} gives you neat and crucially interactive options at the top, whereas {ggplot2} objects are static.

Official StanCon Sponsor

Stan is freedom-respecting, open-source software for facilitating statistical inference at the frontiers of applied statistics. Or to put it another way, it makes Bayesian inference fast and (a bit) easier.

Timing

As time goes on, your R scripts are probably getting longer and more complicated, right? Timing parts of your script could save you precious time when re-running code over and over again. Today I’m going to go through the 4 main functions for doing so.

Speeding up package installation

Can’t Be Bothered Reading, Tell Me Now. A simple one line tweak can significantly speed up package installation and updates. The Wonder Of CRAN: One of the best features of R is CRAN. When a package is submitted to CRAN, not only is it checked under three versions of R