In our last article, we explored the S4 OOP system in R. Up until this point, we had only discussed functional OOP systems in R. Today, we are going to learn about two encapsulated OOP systems available for R: Reference Classes –  introduced to R in 2010 in version 2.12.0 (source). Sometimes also ...

In the previous article, we learned about the first OOP system in R called S3. In this one, we are going to dive into the S4 OOP system. The S4 system is a more formal OOP system developed by Bell Labs and introduced into the S language in the late 1990...

In the previous article we made our first steps in Object Oriented Programming in R and learned that there are multiple ways of doing it. In this article, we will dive deeper into the S3 system – the first object-oriented system in R. Fun fact: if you have used R, you ...

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a popular and widely embraced programming paradigm in software development. The concept of object-oriented programming in R has been previously featured in one of our blog posts, specifically within the context of R6 classes. In this blog post, we will dive deeper into the world of ...

R/Shiny allows you to prototype a working web application quickly and easily. However, with increasing amounts of data, your app may become slow and, in extreme cases, crash due to insufficient memory. When the worst-case scenario happens, we need to figure out a way to lower the memory usage ...

As a software engineer whenever I see something interesting in a web application I try to think about the way it was implemented. One of the things that caught my attention was the infinite scrolling functionality on sites like Facebook or Twitter. Whenever you scroll to the end of the ...

The R community had a recent scare with the isoband package risking archival on CRAN. The reason why this incident made waves is that isoband is a ggplot2 dependency and when a package gets removed from CRAN all other packages that depend on it get removed as well (see CRAN ...

At Appsilon we believe that a good-looking, well-designed interface is the key to making your Shiny Dashboard a success. TailwindCSS is a utility-first CSS framework created by one of the authors of Refactoring UI. As I really enjoyed the book, I decided to give it a shot and try using ...