My blog as a software developer, data enthusiast, traveler and biostatistician — posting to https://www.r-bloggers.com
My coding projects can be found on the coding projects page.

02.12.2019

Does using dtplyr make sense for all datasets? (UPDATED)

When Hadley Wickham published dtplyr 1.0.0 last week, I was super excited. Moreover, I wanted to know, if it really is a useful package. Therefore I performed some tiny research […]

16.07.2019

shinymeta — a revolution for reproducibility

Joe Cheng presented shinymeta enabling reproducibility in shiny at useR in July 2019. This is a simple application using shinymeta. You will see how reactivity and reproducibility do not exclude […]

21.01.2019

A shiny Web App from LEGO— truck + trailer

How to Build a Shiny “Truck” part 2 — Let the LEGO “truck” app pull a trailer. An example of a modularized shiny app. In September 2018 I used an automotive metaphor explaining a large […]

05.10.2018

7 easy steps to custom inputs in shiny

A step by step guide on how to include custom inputs into R Shiny. This guide is going through an example of a custom input build from jQuery. After the […]