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📌 Intro to the blog

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Hello and welcome to the new home for everything I write!

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AOC 2024: Day 6

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Day 6 of the Advent of Code 2024: ‘Guard Gallivant’

AOC 2024: Day 5

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Day 5 of the Advent of Code 2024: ‘Print Queue’

AOC 2024: Day 4

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Day 4 of the Advent of Code 2024: ‘Ceres Search’

AOC 2024: Day 3

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Day 3 of the Advent of Code 2024: ‘Mull It Over’

AOC 2024: Day 2

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Day 2 of the Advent of Code 2024: ‘Red-Nosed Reports’

AOC 2024: Day 1

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Day 1 of the Advent of Code 2024: ‘Historian Hysteria’

Data Scientist, Get Me Out of Here!

A look at the first 24 seasons of I’m a Celeb

This week in R (2024-11-29)

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Quarto v1.6 released with an exciting new features; integrate BlueSky with your Quarto website; learn Parquet with ROpenSci and get started with OIDC in R!

This week in R (2024-11-22)

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Multiple developments in the world of Quarto; yet more LLM integration in R; a brand new widget for your shiny apps and the latest from LondonR!

This week in R (2024-11-15)

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Autopsies on shinylive applications; a new unified framework for branding in Quarto and Shiny; reflections on contributing to R Core; and some H.P. Lovecraft!

This week in R (2024-11-08)

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New Posit Quarto competition with prizes up for grabs; the latest in OOP in R; developments in WebAssembly usage across R and everything Quarto Dashboards!

This week in R (2024-11-01)

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This week: an R user BlueSky migration; posit::conf(2024) materials; favicons in shiny apps; card games in R; dynamic web scraping and a new Positron site!

This week in R (2024-10-25)

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This week in R: Shiny Contest 2024 winners announced; a new Quarto extension for callouts; project management in data science and some updates from ROpenSci!

This week in R (2024-10-18)

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This week: a look at the new Positron IDE; including data in R packages; a look ahead to R/Pharma 2024; an introduction to Monads; and Quarto rendering tips!

This week in R (2024-10-11)

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This week in R: AI comes to Shiny development; DuckDB is still blisteringly fast; my reflections on an excellent Shiny in Production conference, and more!

This week in R (2024-10-04)

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This week in R: Hacktoberfest begins; how to use the trendiest data tools like Parquet and DuckDB and a look ahead to the Shiny apps of 2025!

This week in R (2024-09-27)

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This week in R: learn about S7, R-Universe and the latest RStudio release!

This week in R (2024-09-20)

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Happy Friday everyone! After a long hiatus (I took a sabbatical and did some travelling), we’re back! Here’s some news from the world of R this week - plus a couple of news items from the past 4 months: Vaping comes to R?: a new ‘typed superset of R’ is being developed and the alpha release is now h

This week in R (2024-05-03)

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This week in R: a claimed vulnerability in R < 4.4.0 and the response to its announcement; a new Github Actions course; tidymodels updates and more!

This week in R (2024-04-26)

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This week in R: the newly released R 4.4.0; an awesome new Quarto extension; looking back at ShinyConf and ahead to posit::conf(); and more!

This week in R (2024-04-19)

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This week in R: exciting news for R-universe; {polars} continues solidifying its presence in R; cloud storage tutorials and some upcoming events!

This week in R (2024-04-12)

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This week in the world of R - new benchmarking increases {duckplyr} excitement; the future of R-hub is here; plus new versions of key packages are released!

This week in R (2024-04-05)

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This week in R: DuckDB collab with Posit on an exciting new project, updates from the {tidymodels} team and some useful new guides and tutorials!

This week in R (2024-03-22)

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This week in the world of R, including: increasing fairness in machine learning; package testing best practices and browser-based R! 💥

This week in R (2024-03-15)

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This week in the world of R: high performance computing with {nanonext} et al., the new {tidyfinance} package and more of the latest updates!

5 tips for enterprise Shiny apps

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Some nuggets of wisdom from our experience of developing R shiny applications for hundreds of users

This week in R (2024-03-08)

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Some news this week from the world of R: web scraping with {rvest} and tidyverse; shiny apps for data editing; webR/JS developments and more!