Governments and COVID-19: Which one stops it faster, better, has fewer people dying? These questions get answered with my dashboard. A contribution to the shiny-contest: https://community.rstudio.com/t/material-design-corona-covid-19-dashboard-2020-shiny-contest-submission/59690 Intro How did Corona spread? Using the animation feature of R-shiny this can be easily tracked.COVID-19 ...

Governments and COVID-19: Which one stops it faster, better, has fewer people dying? These questions get answered with my dashboard. A contribution to the shiny-contest: https://community.rstudio.com/t/material-design-corona-covid-19-dashboard-2020-shiny-contest-submission/59690 Intro COVID-19 is the […]

Last week (Feb 28th - Feb 29th) the celebration of 20 years R 1.0.0 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. It turned out to be a fun conference. People told lots of anecdotes from the earlier days of R. Peter Dalgaard brought with him the very first CD wi...

Last week (Feb 28th – Feb 29th) the celebration of 20 years R 1.0.0 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. It turned out to be a fun conference. People told lots […]

When Hadley Wickham published dtplyr 1.0.0 last week, I was super excited. Moreover, I wanted to know, if it really is a useful package. Therefore I performed some tiny research […]

When Hadley Wickham published dtplyr 1.0.0 last week, I was super excited. Moreover, I wanted to know, if it really is a useful package. Therefore I performed some tiny research being presented in this blog entry. Ok. So dtplyr gives you the speed of data.table with the nice API of ...

Using the amazing package rayshader I wanted to render a video of my tour to Alpe d’Huez. Now I created an R package that can use any GPX file and […]

Using the amazing package rayshader I wanted to render a video of my tour to Alpe d'Huez. Now I created an R package that can use any GPX file and return a 3D video animation from it. In July 2019 my friend Tjark and I went to France to cycle the 21 ...

Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States and you need a permit to climb it. These permits are limited. But from time to time, somebody will […]

Joe Cheng presented shinymeta enabling reproducibility in shiny at useR in July 2019. This is a simple application using shinymeta. You will see how reactivity and reproducibility do not exclude […]

The fastest cyclists of Europe live in …Analyzing STRAVA data to find out which city has the faster cyclists with R and R-shiny. My contribution to the shiny contest.A shiny app visualizing STRAVA segments in London and Paris and seeing where peopl...

Analyzing STRAVA data to find out which city has the faster cyclists with R and R-shiny. My contribution to the shiny contest. STRAVA is one of the most popular fitness tracking apps. It not only allows users to track their own activities but also following professionals. STRAVA made running and ...

How to Build a Shiny “Truck” part 2 — Let the LEGO “truck” app pull a trailer. An example of a modularized shiny app. In September 2018 I used an automotive metaphor explaining a large scale R shiny app. RViews published the article. I would summarize the article in one phrase. Upon building ...

How to Build a Shiny “Truck” part 2 — Let the LEGO “truck” app pull a trailer. An example of a modularized shiny app. In September 2018 I used an automotive metaphor explaining a large scale R shiny app. RViews published the article. I would summarize the article in one phrase. Upon building ...

Travis CI for R — Advanced guide Continuous integration for building an R project in Travis CI including code coverage, pkgdown documentation, osx and multiple R-Versions Photo by Guilherme Cunha on UnsplashTravis CI is a common tool to build R packages. It is in my opinion the best platform to use ...

Medium + r-bloggers — How to integrate? Build up a PHP script that allows you to post your Medium articles on r-bloggers.com. The script filters an RSS feed by item tags. Photo by Ato Aikins on UnsplashMotivation I started my blog about R on Medium. Medium is a wonderful platform with ...

Learn how to build a shiny app for the visualization of clustering results. The app helps to better identify patient data samples, e.g. during a clinical study. This tutorial is a joint work effort. The Tutorial was presented by Olaf Menzer in a workshop at the ODSC West Conference ...

Tutorial: An app in R shiny visualizing biopsy data — in a pharmaceutical company Learn how to build a shiny app for the visualization of clustering results. The app helps to better identify patient data samples, e.g. during a clinical study. This tutorial is a joint work effort. The Tutorial ...