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.
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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:...
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.
Learning Analytic Administration through a Sandbox
It all starts with sandboxes. Development sandboxes are dedicated safe spaces for experimentation and creativity. A sandbox is a place where you can go to test and break things, without the ramifications of breaking the real, important things. If you’re an analytic administrator who doesn’t have access or means to get a sandbox, I recommend that you consider advocating to change that. Here are just some of the arguments for why sandboxes are a powerful tool for the R admin that you may find helpful.
I do not well remember, but it seems to me I faced some difficulties when I tried to use Shiny bookmarking to save and restore the state of a Shiny app. These difficulties arose when there were some rende...