Ashley's Personal Space

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]

A month or so ago, over 700 R package maintainers were e-mailed about the potential removal of the {lubridate} package due to a test failing on MacOS systems. [Read More]

There are several ways to send notifications with R when a scheduled job/process has completed running, but if it errors during that process then we still want to have a notification that the script has been unsuccessful. Normally a scheduled job is set-up by using Rscript. If a script is... [Read More]

Have you ever experienced a call where it starts with “let me show you something” and you both end up looking at the loading shiny app for the next 5 minutes? This is the source of inspiration to create the {shinytitle} package (Well, this and CDKeys guilting me into returning... [Read More]