Shiny

Winners of the 2nd Annual Shiny Contest

2020-07-13 Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

After evaluating 220 submissions from 183 unique Shiny developers this year, RStudio is proud to finally announce the winners of the 2020 Shiny Contest. Read more →

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RStudio and COVID-19

2020-04-17 Hadley Wickham

A lot of the R community are involved in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we want to help out where we can. Read more →

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Shiny Contest 2020 deadline extended

2020-03-18 Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

The original deadline for Shiny Contest 2020 was this week, but given that many of us have had lots of unexpected changes to our schedules over the last week due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we have decided to extend the deadline by two weeks. If you’ve been planning to submit an entry for the contest this week (and if history is any indicator, there may be a few of you out there), please feel free to take this additional time. Read more →

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Shiny Contest 2020 is here!

2020-02-12 Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Over the years, we have loved interacting with the Shiny community and loved seeing and sharing all the exciting apps, dashboards, and interactive documents Shiny developers have produced. So last year we launched the Shiny contest and we were overwhelmed (in the best way possible!) by the 136 submissions! Reviewing all these submissions was incredibly inspiring and humbling. We really appreciate the time and effort each contestant put into building these apps, as well as submitting them as fully reproducible artifacts via RStudio Cloud. Read more →

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R vs. Python: What's the best language for Data Science?

2019-12-17 Lou Bajuk

We will briefly examine the debates over R vs. Python, and then share why we believe R and Python can, should and do work beautifully together. Read more →

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RStudio's Commercial Desktop License is now RStudio Desktop Pro

2019-12-03 Lou Bajuk

We have good news for our commercial desktop IDE customers. We are giving the commercial version of our desktop IDE a new name and some great new features, including support for the RStudio Professional Drivers, at no additional cost to you. As part of this release, we are renaming RStudio Commercial Desktop License to RStudio Desktop Pro. Existing Commercial Desktop customers will be migrated as part of their next renewal. Read more →

RStudio Package Manager

Package Manager 1.1.0.1 Patch Release

2019-11-26 Sean Lopp

Earlier this month we announced RStudio Package Manager version 1.1.0, a major update to RStudio Package Manager that added support for: Faster package installs on Linux with pre-compiled binaries Easier installs through the display of system requirements A calendar of repository checkpoints to make it easier to reproduce work This patch release updates the 1.1.0 version without introducing any new features. The 1.1.0.1 patch fixes a bug in the prior release that impacts performance when serving binary packages from historical checkpoints. Read more →

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Our first artist in residence: Allison Horst!

2019-11-18 Hadley Wickham

Allison Horst is RStudio’s inaugural artist-in-residence! Read more →

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RStudio Professional Drivers 1.6.0

2019-10-24 Nathan Stephens

Access to data is crucial for data science. Unfortunately, servers that run RStudio are often disconnected from databases, especially in organizations that are new to R. In order to help data scientists access their databases, RStudio offers ODBC data connectors that are supported, easy to install, and designed to work everywhere you use RStudio professional products. The 1.6.0 release of RStudio Professional Drivers includes a few important updates. New data sources Read more →

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RStudio Connect 1.7.8 - Put a pin in it!

2019-09-23 Sean Lopp

This release adds new workflows for data scientists and improved production settings for administrators. For data scientists, it used to be hard to use the same data or R objects in different content, and even harder to update those resources regularly. This release enables you to pin objects in Connect to solve these challenges. For administrators, we’ve reduced the most common sources of publishing failures and significantly improved error handling. Read more →