R Courses at Newcastle

Over the next two months I’m running a number of R courses at Newcastle University.

• May 2016
  • May 10th, 11th: Predictive Analytics
  • May 16th – 20th: Bioconductor
  • May 23rd, 24th: Advanced programming
• June 2016
  • June 8th: R for Big Data
  • June 9th: Interactive graphics with Shiny

Since these courses are on  advanced topics, numbers are limited (there’s only a couple of places left on Predictive Analytics). If you are interested in attending, sign up as soon as possible.

Getting to Newcastle is easy. The airport is 10 minutes from the city centre and has direct flights to the main airport hubs: Schiphol, Heathrow, and Paris.  The courses at Newcastle attract participants from around the world; at the April course, we had representatives from North America, Sweden, Germany,  Romania and Geneva.

Cost: The courses cost around £130 per day (more than half the price of certain London courses!)

 

Onsite courses available on request.

RStudio addins manager

RStudio addins let you execute a bit of R code or a Shiny app through the RStudio IDE, either via the Addins dropdown menu or with a keyboard shortcut. This package is an RStudio addin for managing other addins. To run these addins, you need the latest version of RStudio.

Installation

The package can be installed via devtools

## Need the latest version of DT as well
devtools::install_github('rstudio/DT')
devtools::install_github("csgillespie/addinmanager")


Running addins

After installing the package, the Addins menu toolbar will be populated with a new addin called Addin Manager. When you launch this addin, a DT table will be launched:

In the screenshot above, the highlighted addins, shinyjs and ggThemeAssit, indicate that this addins have already installed.

When you click Done

• Highlighted addins will be installed.
• Un-highlighted addins will be removed.

Simple!

Including your addin

Just fork and alter the addin file which is located in the inst/extdata directory of the package. This file is a csv file with three columns:

• addin Name/title
• Brief Description
• Package. If the package is only on github, use name/repo.

The initial list of addins was obtain from daattali’s repo.