Colin Fay

Colin Fay @colinfay

About: Nerd. Loves building things, loves breaking things.

Location:
Rennes
Joined:
Jun 10, 2017

Colin Fay
articles - 46 total

Rlinguo — Why Did We Build It?

Why spending hours building an app that runs R?

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Setting values in R6 classes, and testing with shiny::MockShinySession

Where mobile meets R

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Introducing Rlinguo, a native mobile app that runs R

Where mobile meets R

Learn More 16 5Dec 23 '24

webrcli & spidyr: What’s new

Find all my posts about webR here. Note: the first post of this series explaining roughly what webR...

Learn More 0 0Aug 20 '24

webrcli & spidyr: A starter pack for building NodeJS projects with webR inside

This post is the sixth one of a series of post about webR: Using webR in an Express JS REST API The...

Learn More 1 0Mar 7 '24

Rethinking packages & functions preloading in webR 0.2.2

This post is the fifth one of a series of post about webR: Using webR in an Express JS REST API The...

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Using my own R functions in webR in an Express JS API, and thoughts on building web apps with Node & webR

This post is the fourth one of a series of post about webR: Using webR in an Express JS REST...

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Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS API

This post is the third one of a series of post about webR: Using webR in an Express JS REST API The...

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The Old Faithful Geyser Data shiny app with webR, Bootstrap & ExpressJS

This post is the second one of a series of post about webR: Using webR in an Express JS REST...

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Using webR in an Express JS REST API

webR? wat again? As described in the doc: WebR is a version of the statistical language...

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The ‘Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps’ book is available in print!

I’m so, so excited to announce that the ‘Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps’ book is now...

Learn More 0 0Apr 1 '22

Multi-page {shiny} Applications with {brochure}

[Disclaimer] The package presented in this blog post is still experimental at the time of writing...

Learn More 3 0Nov 10 '21

Advent of Code 2020-08 with R

Solving Advent of Code 2020-08 with R. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler...

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Advent of Code 2020-07 with R & Neo4j

Solving Advent of Code 2020-07 with R & Neo4j. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big...

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Advent of Code 2020-06 with R

Solving Advent of Code 2020-06 with R. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler...

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Advent of Code 2020-05 with R

Solving Advent of Code 2020-05 with R. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler...

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Advent of Code 2020-04 with R

Solving Advent of Code 2020-04 with R. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler...

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Advent of Code 2020-03 with R

Solving Advent of Code 2020-03 with R [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler about...

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Advent of Code 2020-02 with R & JavaScript

Solving Advent of Code 2020-01 with R and JavaScript. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a...

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Advent of Code 2020-01 with R & JavaScript

Solving Advent of Code 2020-01 with R and JavaScript. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a...

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Can I host my R packages on npm? (Spoiler: yes)

I’m a big fan of how dependencies are managed in the NodeJS world, be internally when developing, or...

Learn More 7 0Aug 2 '20

{hexmake} is one of the 5 Grand Prizes of the 2020 Shiny Contest

Hey y’all! I’m very happy to announce that my {hexmake} application has won one of the 5 Grand...

Learn More 9 0Aug 2 '20

clientsdb - A docker image with clients comments

Have you ever been looking for a ready to use database while doingtraining? Search no more, this...

Learn More 8 0Jul 17 '20

Hello hordes!

Introducing hordes, a module that makes R available from NodeJS. About General...

Learn More 7 0Jul 1 '20

What's a "successful" Shiny Application?

One of the things that we keep promoting in the ThinkR team are good practices for production...

Learn More 13 0Jun 10 '20

Learning Shiny for Production – Remote session

We’re very happy to announce that we will be giving a remote training session on building Shiny Application for production in July. Be quick, we only have 10 spots available!

Learn More 7 0May 20 '20

Fetch API Results from the Browser and send them to Shiny

How to fetch API results from client-side in a Shiny app and send them to R. Why on...

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How to Write an R Package Wrapping a NodeJS Module

Mr A Bichat was looking for a way tobundle a NodeJS module inside n R package. Here is an attempt at...

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Use R & GitHub as a Workout planner

Over the years, I’ve been trying a bunch a different applications and methods to stay motivated to...

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Automate the Creation of an API Wrapper package by Scraping its Online Documentation

I’ve recently been building a package to interact with theRocket.chat API. One thing I don’t like...

Learn More 2 0Apr 17 '20