The JSM conference in Chicago, July 31 thru August 4, 2016, is one of the largest to be found on statistics, with many terrific talks for R users. We’ve listed some of the sessions that we’re particularly excited about below. These include talks from RStudio employees, like Hadley Wickham, Yihui Xie, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Garrett Grolemund, and Joe Cheng, but also include a bunch of other talks about R that we think look interesting. Read more →

Following our initial and very gratifying Shiny Developer Conference this past January, which sold out in a few days, RStudio is very excited to announce a new and bigger conference today! rstudio::conf, the conference about all things R and RStudio, will take place January 13 and 14, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. The conference will feature talks and tutorials from popular RStudio data scientists and developers like Hadley Wickham, Yihui Xie, Joe Cheng, Winston Chang, Garrett Grolemund, and J. Read more →

RStudio is pleased to notify account holders of recent updates to shinyapps.io. Note: Action is required if your shiny application URL includes internal.shinyapps.io What’s New? We have updated the authentication and invitation system to improve the user experience, security, and extensibility for anyone with private applications. You may have already noticed some changes to the authentication flow for your applications if you are a Standard or Professional account holder. As a part of these changes, we have eliminated the IFRAME and the associated RStudio branding, except for customers using custom domains where the IFRAME is still required. Read more →

Five months ago we launched shinyapps.io. Since then, more than 25,000 accounts have been created and countless Shiny applications have been deployed. It’s incredibly exciting to see! It’s also given us lots of data and feedback on how we can make shinyapps.io better. Today, we’re happy to tell you about some changes to our subscription Plans that we hope will make shinyapps.io an even better experience for Shiny developers and their application users. Read more →

It’s time to share “What’s New” in shinyapps.io! Custom Domains - host your shiny applications on your own domain (Professional Plan only). Learn more. Bigger applications – include up to 1GB of data with your application bundles! Bigger packages – until nowshinyapps.io could only support installation of packages under 100MB; now it’s 1GB! (attention users of BioConductor packages especially) Better locale detection – the newest shinyapps package now detects and maps your locale appropriately if it varies from the locale ofshinyapps. Read more →

RStudio is excited to announce the general availability (GA) of shinyapps.io. Shinyapps.io is an easy to use, secure, and scalable hosted service already being used by thousands of professionals and students to deploy Shiny applications on the web. Effective today, shinyapps.io has completed beta testing and is generally available as a commercial service for anyone. As regular readers of our blog know, Shiny is a popular free and open source R package from RStudio that simplifies the creation of interactive web applications, dashboards, and reports. Read more →

RStudio is happy to announce the availability of the shinyapps.io beta. Shinyapps.io is an easy to use, secure, and scalable hosted service already being used by thousands of professionals and students to deploy Shiny applications on the web. Today we are releasing a significant upgrade as we transition from alpha to beta, the final step before general availability (GA) later this quarter. New Feature Highlights in shinyapps.io beta Secure and manage authorized users with support for new authentication systems, including Google, GitHub, or a shinyapps. Read more →

Some of the most innovative Shiny apps share data across user sessions. Some apps share the results of one session to use in future sessions, others track user characteristics over time and make them available as part of the app. This level of sophistication creates tricky design choices when you host your app on a server. A nimble server will open new instances of your app to speed up performance, or relaunch your app on a bigger server when it becomes popular. Read more →

R Markdown’s new interactive documents provide a quick, light-weight way to use Shiny. An interactive document embeds Shiny elements in an R Markdown report. The report becomes “live”, a choose your own adventure that readers can control and explore. Interactive documents are easy to create and easy to share. Create an interactive document To create an interactive document use RStudio to create a new R Markdown file, choose the Shiny document template, then click “Run Document” to show a preview: Read more →

We’re excited to introduce to you our new website for Shiny: shiny.rstudio.com!

We’ve included articles on many Shiny-related topics, dozens of example applications, and an all-new tutorial for getting started. Whether you’re a beginner or expert at Shiny, we hope that having these resources available in one place will help you find the information you need. We’d also like to announce Shiny 0.9, now available on CRAN. This release includes many bug fixes and new features, including:

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