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AI, LLMs and ChatGPT have been all the 🌊 the last 12 months and I haven’t written about it here… until now. Today I want to write about an interesting problem that the langchain can potentially solve.

It pains me 😩 that whenever I contemplate using shiny for a work-related project, the question of allowing users to save and restore their progress 💬🗨 inevitably arises. While there are a variety of ways to do so in shiny (e.

Preface I’ll preface with this post is related to a project I lead at work. I can’t share too many details about it here unfortunately (including code), but what I can safely share is my experience and process 💡.

I feel like there are countless examples on how to read a directory of .csv files into R using purrr 😺. However, in those examples the setup is potentially many CSV files being read in and stacked into a single data frame.

… or rather the latter the half of 2022 since I’m getting old and can’t remember the first half This Blog I set out to initially redesign my portfolio this year.

… and by old, I mean really old. Like year 2008 old. Like the first R code I ever wrote. I recently went digging in an old dropbox account for photos and to my surprise I had saved a copy of my undergraduate thesis, complete with code.

The default behavior in shiny::actionButton() is to open a web link in the current window. This approach has two potential implications for user-experience: The current progress within the shiny app will be lost; clicking 🔙 on your browser will reload the app 😭 This can (independent of #1) inadvertently divert users away from your app 🏃️💨 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ See for yourself ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Click Me!

I recently came across the whisker 📦, which is an R implementation of {{mustache}}. Say what 👨? … a logic-less template syntax. It can be used for HTML, config files, source code - anything.

A prototype I was working on earlier this year needed to make use of data stored in an excel book. The data I needed were the URLS embedded in hyperlinks within cells of a sheet.

Welcome to my new… blog? This was a long time coming. My previous portfolio was getting cumbersome to maintain. I have no idea why I structured it as a shiny app.