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Debugging with Dean: My first YouTube screencast

I wanted to solve a real bug in real-time, to show you my thought process. Here's how it turned out.

Posted on October 29, 2020

If you’re impatient and want to watch the video immediately, you can watch it directly on YouTube. Just remember to subscribe so you won’t miss my next videos! [Read More]

Tags: rstats shiny tutorial youtube

"package 'foo' is not available" - What to do when R tells you it can't install a package

This common error means the package you're looking for can't be installed from CRAN. This is how you solve it.

Posted on October 5, 2020

The R language is infamous among its users for often having unhelpful error messages. One of the error messages that almost any R user in history has seen is “package ‘foo’ is not available (for R version x.y.z)”, which would come after trying to install package “foo” from CRAN using... [Read More]

Tags: rstats packages shiny tutorial

Exciting updates to my top 4 Shiny packages

Posted on September 29, 2020

Building new packages in R is a lot of fun for me, and if I could then I would spend all day just doing that. But after the initial relese comes the endless maintenance, which mostly involves adding new features requested by users and fixing bugs. Releasing an update to... [Read More]

Tags: rstats packages shiny shinyjs

How to set up MULTIPLE GitHub Pages websites with custom domains

Posted on September 23, 2020

Setting up a GitHub Pages site with a custom domain name is relatively simple and has lots of documentation. On the other hand, setting up two (or more) GitHub Pages sites within the same GitHub account has no documentation and can be confusing. But it’s actually very simple, as this... [Read More]

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{shinycssloaders} v1.0: You can now use your own image, plus 3 years' worth of new features!

Posted on August 11, 2020

The {shinycssloaders} package is a handy little tool that lets you easily add loading animations to a Shiny output (a plot, a table, etc.) while it’s recalculating. [Read More]

Tags: rstats packages shiny shinycssloaders