One of my favorite features of the tidyverse is the lovely message printed to the console when its loaded. I delved into their source code to see how to achieve that. In this post, I describe the end-product: metamakr, an R package development tool for easily creating your own package ‘verse’.
A brief blog post on how to use temporary files to write data, read and manipulate it, and then delete the original file for storage optimization. I describe the tempdir(), tempfile(), and unlink(), functions and the difference between file/directory paths and contents.
A brief blog post documenting a new feature of my package, shinysurveys, allowing users to define custom input types in their surveys. I walk through three examples: sliderInput(), dateInput(), and shinyWidgets::sliderTextInput().
A brief blog post describing how to publish your first Shiny application on RStudio’s platform, shinyapps.io. I walk-through with images how how to register your shinyapps.io account locally and use RStudio’s ‘click-to-deploy’ feature to easily share your interactive apps online.
Introducing my new package, ghee, a user-friendly wrapper for the {gh} package that provides client access to Github’s REST API for common tasks such as creating issues and inviting collaborators.