pool package on CRAN

2017-11-17 Bárbara Borges

The pool package makes it easier for Shiny developers to connect to databases. Up until now, there wasn’t a clearly good way to do this. As a Shiny app author, if you connect to a database globally (outside of the server function), your connection won’t be robust because all sessions would share that connection (which could leave most users hanging when one of them is using it, or even all of them if the connection breaks). Read more →

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Announcing blogdown: Create Websites with R Markdown

2017-09-11 Yihui Xie

Today I’m excited to announce a new R package, blogdown, to help you create general-purpose (static) websites with R Markdown. The first version of blogdown is available on CRAN now, and you can install it with: install.packages("blogdown") The source package is hosted on Github in the repository rstudio/blogdown. Since blogdown is a new package, you may install and test the development version using devtools::install_github("rstudio/blogdown") if you run into problems with the CRAN version. Read more →

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Keras for R

2017-09-05 JJ Allaire

We are excited to announce that the keras package is now available on CRAN. The package provides an R interface to Keras, a high-level neural networks API developed with a focus on enabling fast experimentation. Keras has the following key features: Allows the same code to run on CPU or on GPU, seamlessly. User-friendly API which makes it easy to quickly prototype deep learning models. Built-in support for convolutional networks (for computer vision), recurrent networks (for sequence processing), and any combination of both. Read more →

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Shiny 1.0.4

2017-08-15 Winston Chang

Shiny 1.0.4 is now available on CRAN. To install it, run: install.packages("shiny") For most Shiny users, the most exciting news is that file inputs now support dragging and dropping: It is now possible to add and remove tabs from a tabPanel, with the new functions insertTab(), appendTab(), prependTab(), and removeTab(). It is also possible to hide and show tabs with hideTab() and showTab(). Shiny also has a new a function, onStop(), which registers a callback function that will execute when the application exits. Read more →

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Building tidy tools workshop

2017-08-10 Roger Oberg

Have you embraced the tidyverse? Do you now want to expand it to meet your needs? Then this is a NEW two-day hands on workshop designed for you! The goal of this workshop is to take you from someone who uses tidyverse functions to someone who can extend the tidyverse by: Writing expressive code using advanced functional programming techniques Designs consistent APIs using analogies to existing tools Uses the S3 object system to make user friendly values Can bundle functions with documentation and tests into a package to share with others. Read more →

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sparklyr 0.6: Distributed R and external sources

2017-07-31 Javier Luraschi

We’re excited to announce a new release of the sparklyr package, available in CRAN today! sparklyr 0.6 introduces new features to: Distribute R computations using spark_apply() to execute arbitrary R code across your Spark cluster. You can now use all of your favorite R packages and functions in a distributed context. Connect to External Data Sources using spark_read_source(), spark_write_source(), spark_read_jdbc() and spark_write_jdbc(). Use the Latest Frameworks including dplyr 0. Read more →

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haven 1.1.0

2017-07-13 Hadley Wickham

I’m pleased to announce the release of haven 1.1.0. Haven is designed to faciliate the transfer of data between R and SAS, SPSS, and Stata. It makes it easy to read SAS, SPSS, and Stata file formats in to R data frames, and makes it easy to save your R data frames in to SPSS and Stata if you need to collaborate with others using closed source statistical software. Install the latest version by running: Read more →

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Introducing learnr

2017-07-11 Garrett Grolemund

We’re pleased to introduce the learnr package, now available on CRAN. The learnr package makes it easy to turn any R Markdown document into an interactive tutorial. Tutorials consist of content along with interactive components for checking and reinforcing understanding. Tutorials can include any or all of the following: Narrative, figures, illustrations, and equations. Code exercises (R code chunks that users can edit and execute directly). Multiple choice quizzes. Read more →

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dbplyr 1.1.0

2017-06-27 Hadley Wickham

I’m pleased to announce the release of the dbplyr package, which now contains all dplyr code related to connecting to databases. This shouldn’t affect you-as-a-user much, but it makes dplyr simpler, and makes it easier to release improvements just for database related code. You can install the latest version of dbplyr with: install.packages("dbplyr") DBI and dplyr alignment The biggest change in this release is that dplyr/dbplyr works much more directly with DBI database connections. Read more →

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bigrquery 0.4.0

2017-06-26 Hadley Wickham

I’m pleased to announce that bigrquery 0.4.0 is now on CRAN. bigrquery makes it possible to talk to Google’s BigQuery cloud database. It provides both DBI and dplyr backends so you can interact with BigQuery using either low-level SQL or high-level dplyr verbs. Install the latest version of bigrquery with: install.packages("bigrquery") Basic usage Connect to a bigquery database using DBI: library(dplyr) con <- DBI::dbConnect(dbi_driver(), project = "publicdata", dataset = "samples", billing = "887175176791" ) DBI::dbListTables(con) #> [1] "github_nested" "github_timeline" "gsod" "natality" #> [5] "shakespeare" "trigrams" "wikipedia" (You’ll be prompted to authenticate interactively, or you can use a service token with set_service_token(). Read more →