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.

Plot Colour Helper - Finally an easy way to pick colours for your R plots!

Posted on January 9, 2017

You’ve just made an amazing plot in R, and the only thing remaining is finding the right colours to use. Arghhh this part is never fun… You’re probably familiar with this loop: try some colour values -> plot -> try different colours -> plot -> repeat. Don’t you wish there... [Read More]

Tags: rstats shiny packages

How to write a useful htmlwidgets in R: tips and walk-through a real example

Posted on October 18, 2016

I’d like to share some tips and recommendations on building htmlwidgets, based on my own learning experience while creating timevis. These tips are mostly concerned with making your htmlwidget more useful and user friendly. In this post, every tip I provide will be followed by an actual code walk-through so... [Read More]

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Shiny tips & tricks for improving your apps and solving common problems

Posted on August 29, 2016

This document contains a collection of various Shiny tricks that I commonly use or that I know many people ask about. Each link contains a complete functional Shiny app that demonstrates how to perform a non trivial task in Shiny. The complete up-to-date list of tips, along with all the... [Read More]

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Visualizing when I'm most productive during the day

Analyzing my (and others') git activity

Posted on August 19, 2016

Click here to explore the data yourself [Read More]

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addinslist package: An RStudio addin to discover and install RStudio addins

Posted on May 9, 2016

RStudio addins were released in early 2016 to provide anyone with the ability to add “extensions” to RStudio. This feature has quickly become popular, but discoverability was a problem: there was just no easy way to know what addins exist. [Read More]

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