https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/binder/ Recent content in Binder on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/06/01/try-r/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/06/01/try-r/ tl;dr I made it so you can launch RStudio in the browser with R v4.2 installed—thanks to the Binder service—so you can try out the new pipe |> and anonymous-function \() syntax. Just browsering Want to try R v4.2 from the safety of your browser without installing any software? Maybe your organisation hasn’t yet moved to version 4.1 or higher, but you want a chance to noodle around with its cool new syntax that all the hip young trendsetters are yakking about. https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/11/14/hello-r2eng/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/11/14/hello-r2eng/ tl;dr I created the work-in-progress {r2eng} package (source, site) to help translate R expressions to speakable English. Inspired by Amelia McNamara and with a huge amount of help from Chung-hong Chan. Communication is hard Amelia McNamara (site, Twitter) gave a talk at the useR! 2020 conference called ‘Speaking R’. Watch the video on YouTube, or take a look at the slides. To summarise greatly: R code should be speakable so that we can teach, learn and communicate with minimal friction. https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/08/25/holepunch-drake/ Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/08/25/holepunch-drake/ tl;dr Binder lets people explore your GitHub-based R code in a live, browser-based instance of RStudio – for free. Set-up for R projects is quick with {holepunch}. I’ve used {holepunch} on my {drake} demo repo. Click the ‘launch binder’ badge in the repo’s README. Icing on the {drake} I wrote about how Will Landau’s excellent {drake} package could be used to minimise errors and speed up the production of statistical reports by the UK government.