Ashley's Personal Space

With the upcoming release of {designer}, one of the key features is the ability to save and share templates; by including it as part of the application, this removes the need to bookmark specific IDs, and makes it easier to use and maintain multiple wireframes. Instead of using the bookmark... [Read More]

I’m really happy to announce an update of {designer} is available on CRAN! This is the first package that I’ve created that has warranted such an update, and the features included will help improve the experience of using the package. [Read More]

Shiny has always been the framework for creating dashboards in R, but as time goes on the potential use cases for shiny applications are continuously increasing. One area that I wanted to explore was the inclusion of multimedia. This might be an introductory video, or embedding one of those racing... [Read More]

A couple of weeks ago I was looking around for different CSS frameworks to play around with, and came across Semantic HTML (not to be confused with Semantic UI) and I’m hooked! There are several “classless CSS frameworks” that are implemented under the ideology of Semantic HTML: styling of elements... [Read More]

When writing R scripts that involve connecting to a database, it is relatively simple to set up the connection at the start of the script (dbConnect), do all of the required queries (dbGetQuery, dbWriteTable etc.) and then at the end of the script close the connection (dbDisconnect) without much of... [Read More]