We’re pleased to announce blastula, a package for creating beautiful custom emails in R. At RStudio, we love interactive dashboards, but some situations call for a different communication mechanism. Use blastula to: Compose custom email bodies based on code, code output, and markdown Send emails using SMTP servers - even GMail - or integrate with production services like RStudio Connect Blastula makes it easy to send notifications for everything from anomaly detection to fantasy basketball results, all without leaving R. 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 →

People rarely agree on a best authoring tool or language. Some people cannot live without \LaTeX{} because of the beauty and quality of its PDF output. Some \feel{} \uncomfortable{} \with{} \backslashes{}, and would rather live in another World Word. We have also witnessed the popularity of Markdown, an incredibly simple language (seriously? a LANGUAGE?) that has made reproducible research much easier. Thinking of all these tools and languages, every developer will dream about “One ring to rule them all”. Read more →