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Background Shiny apps are a great way to share information and empower your users. Sometimes you want to make sure that only authenticated and authorized users will be able to view your shiny apps.

I’ve been building R shiny apps for a while now, and ever since I started working with shiny, it has significantly increased the set of services I offer my clients.

Over the last month I gave a tidyverse + intro to data science corporate training in a startup in Tel-Aviv. We had two groups (beginners and intermediates), and for the last assignment of the course I was aiming for a short quiz comprised of various topics which we covered during the course, such that can also be automated easily (i.

A few months ago I attended the 2019 rstudio::conf, including the shiny train-the-trainer workshop. It was a two day workshop and it inspired me in many ways. The first day of the workshop focused on the very basics of teaching (R or anything else), and for me it put the spotlight on things I never considered before.

A few days ago I presented at the 9th Israeli class action lawsuit conference. You’re probably asking yourself what would a data scientist do in a room full of lawyers?

Important note (2023-04-25): In purrr version 1.0.0 the capability of integral progress bars was introduced. Just use the argument .progress=TRUE in the map function. See the documentation here. The rest of this post remains unchanged, even though it is no longer the optimal way to solve this issue.

Following Jenny Bryan’s talk on tidyeval in the last rstudio::conf 2019, I decided to write this short note (mainly as a reminder to myself). What is tidyeval? Tidy evaluation, or non standard evaluation, allows us to pass column names between functions.

First, let me start by saying wow!, what a wonderful experience. When I booked the trip from Israel to Austin, TX, I thought that I’ll see some good content, and learn at the conference (as I in fact did).