My website

This is my website where all of my projects can be found along with all of their info. I will also announce new projects here.

{shinydisconnect}: Show a nice message when a Shiny app disconnects or errors

Posted on July 28, 2020

Have you ever noticed how an error in your Shiny app looks very different when it happens locally (in RStudio on your laptop) compared to when it happens in production (in shinyapps.io or Shiny Server or Connect)? Locally, when a Shiny app breaks, you just get a grey screen. But... [Read More]

Tags: rstats packages shiny shinydisconnect

Beautiful Jekyll v4: Huge updates to one of the most popular GitHub Pages themes

Posted on July 17, 2020

Beautiful Jekyll allows you to create a website similar to mine in under 5 minutes. It started out as a modest weekend project 5 years ago that I never expected anyone outside my home to see. Today, it’s one of the top Jekyll/GitHub Pages themes with over 10,000 GitHub stars+forks*.... [Read More]

Tags: jekyll github blog beautifuljekyll

Sample blog post

Each post also has a subtitle

Posted on February 28, 2020

This is a test post I will post announcements, updates, and more via posts so check back here later!

Tags: post

Flake it till you make it

Excerpt from Soulshaping by Jeff Brown

Posted on February 26, 2020

Under what circumstances should we step off a path? When is it essential that we finish what we start? If I bought a bag of peanuts and had an allergic reaction, no one would fault me if I threw it out. If I ended a relationship with a woman who... [Read More]

Tags: books test

CRANalerts: Get email alerts when a CRAN package gets updated

Posted on April 11, 2018

UPDATE July 2020: The code for this service is now public on GitHub [Read More]

Tags: rstats packages shiny