Shell vs R Fundamentals – From Syntax to Control Structures with Zsh & BASH
Overview This walkthrough of the fundamentals of shell programming with Z shell (Zsh) and Bourne Again SHell (BASH) includes a comparison of similar components and features in R and RStudio. An alt…
Tiny things can separate life into “before” and “after”. Here is one. For almost a year I’ve been daily sending mental “thank you” to Ugo (@ugobas) who showed me how to re-organize panes in RStudio. Since then I’ve been spreading this tiny improvement so many times that I thought the tiny advise deserved a separate tiny post. Please note, below is an opinionated view of a comfortable UI improvement; feel free to ignore it if you don’t like. This advise is highly subjective, though, I really believe it is useful.
Practical Advice for R in Production - Answering Your Questions
This is a guest post by Colin Gillespie from Jumping Rivers answering your questions from their most recent series of webinars, Practical Advice for Putting R in Production.
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Persistent config and data for R packages - R-hub blog
Does your R package work best with some configuration? You probably want it to be easily found by your package. Does your R package download huge datasets that don’t change much on the provider side? Maybe you want to save the corresponding data somewhere persistent so that things will go faster during the next R session. In this blog post we shall explain how an R package developer can go about using and setting persistent configuration and data on the user’s machine.
How to run R scripts from the command line – RStudio Support
Running R scripts from the command line can be a powerful way to: Automate your R scripts Integrate R into production Call R through other tools or systems There are basically two Linux command...
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15 new ideas and new tools for R gathered from the RStudio Conference 2019
Below we list the tools and innovations from the RStudio Conference in Austin, Texas that we found the most useful and exciting. As with last year’s conference, the event is well organized an…
pins: Pin, Discover and Share Resources | RStudio Blog
Today we are excited to announce the pins package is available on CRAN! pins allows you to pin, discover and share remote resources, locally or in remote storage. If you find yourself using download.file() or asking others to download files before running your R code, use pin() to achieve fast, simple and reliable reproducible research over remote resources. Pins You can use the pins package to: Pin remote resources locally to work offline and cache results with ease, pin() stores resources in boards which you can then retrieve with pin_get().
Package management: Using repositories in production systems | R-bloggers
Data science is characterized among other things using open source tools. An advantage when working with open source languages such as R or Python is the large package world. This provides tools for numerous use cases and problems through the development within huge communities. The packages are organized in digital ...
HTTPS to Secure Your RStudio Shiny App Work Environment
HTTPS to Secure Your RStudio + Shiny App Work Environment Click any link in list below to jump to topic Creating a Friendly URL Route 53 to Host Domain and Create Subdomains AWS Certificate Manager for SSL keys AWS Elastic Load Balancers: HTTPS Redirection Installing Nginx & Creating Configuration Files I wanted to create this post as an addition to my previous post Running R on AWS EC2 and Logging into RStudio from Anywhere to show how to secure your AWS environment.
Recommended Packages Many useful R function come in packages, free libraries of code written by R's active user community. To install an R package, open an R session and type at the command line in...
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RStudio IDE Easy Tricks You Might've Missed · R Views
The RStudio IDE reached version 1.0 this month. The IDE has come a long way since the initial release 5 and a half years ago. Many major features have been built: projects, package building tools, notebooks. During that same period, often hidden in the shadows, a growing list of smaller features has been changing lives. In celebration of version 1.0 this post hopes to spread fanfare for a few of these easy-to-miss tools.
Prototype implementation of an extension to S3 that provides explicit class definitions and a form of multiple dispatch. Represents the output of the Object-oriented Programming Working Group, sponsored by the R Consortium.
Overview Code snippets are text macros that are used for quickly inserting common snippets of code. For example, the fun snippet inserts an R function definition: If you select the snippet from th...
Customizing Package Build Options – RStudio Support
Customizing Package Build Options Overview There are three R package build commands used by the RStudio package development tools: R CMD check R CMD build R CMD INSTALL It's possible to c...
20 Free Online Books to Learn R and Data Science - Python and R Tips
If you are interested in learning Data Science with R, but not interested in spending money on books, you are definitely in a very good space. There are a number of fantastic R/Data Science books and resources available online for free from top most creators and scientists. Here are such 13 free 20 free (so […]
Both R and distributed programming rank highly on my list of “good things”, so imagine my delight when two new... The post The Evolution of Distributed Programming in R appeared first on Mango Solutions.
In this article we present our R package rsync, which serves as an interface between R and the popular Linux command line tool rsync. Rsync allows users of Unix systems to synchronize local and remote files between two locations.
As an update to this post, here's a list of the major events in R history since its creation: 1992: R development begins as a research project in Auckland, NZ by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka 1993: First binary versions of R published at Statlib 1995: R first distributed as open-source software, under GPL2 license 1997: R core group formed 1997: CRAN founded (by Kurt Hornik and Fritz Leisch) 1999: The R website, r-project.org, founded 1999: First in-person meeting of R Core team, at inaugural Directions in Statistical Computing conference, Vienna 2000: R 1.0.0 released (February 29) 2000:...