Back in 2016, I did a post on {ggplot2} text annotations because it was a tad more challenging to do some of the things in that post back in the day. Since I’ve been moving back and forth between R and Observable (and JavaScript in general), I decided to recreate that post in OJS Plot,… Continue reading
Start Creating Vanilla JS WebR Apps With Less Inertia
WebR has a template for React, but I’m not a fan of it or Vue (a fact longtime readers are likely tired of hearing right about now). It’s my opinion and experience that Lit webcomponents come closer to “bare metal” webcomponents, which means the “lock-in” with Lit is way less of a potential headache than… Continue reading
Make “Solar System” Plots With {ggsolar}
I was cranking out a blog post for work earlier this week that shows off just how many integrations our platform has. I won’t blather about that content here, but as I was working on it, I really wanted to show off all the integrations. A table seemed far too boring. Several categorized unordered lists… Continue reading
Introducing WebRIDEr: The WebR “IDE”-ish REPL You Didn’t Know You Needed
The official example WebR REPL is definitely cool and useful to get the feel for WebR. But, it is far from an ideal way to deal with it interactively, even as just a REPL. As y’all know, I’ve been conducing numerous experiments with WebR and various web technologies. I started doing this for numerous reasons,… Continue reading
Using WebR + Pyodide To Fill In The (Temporary) Package Gaps
I won’t wax long and poetic here since I’ve already posted the experiment that has all the details. TL;DR: there are still only ~90-ish 📦 in the WebR WASM “CRAN”, but more are absolutely on the way, including the capability to build your own CRAN and dev packages via Docker and host your own WebR… Continue reading
🧪 Lit + WebR + Observable Plot: Linking Lit’s Lightweight Web Components And WebR For Vanilla JS Reactivity & JS DataVis
See it live before reading! The previous post brought lit-webr, to introduce Lit and basic reactivity. Today, is more of the same, but we bring the OG Shiny demo plot into the modern age by using Observbable Plot to make the charts. We’re still pulling data from R, but we’re letting Plot do all the… Continue reading
Linking Lit’s Lightweight Web Components And WebR For Vanilla JS Reactivity
See it live before reading! This is a Lit + WebR reproduction of the OG Shiny Demo App Lit is a javascript library that makes it a bit easier to work with Web Components, and is especially well-suited in reactive environments. My recent hack-y WebR experiments have been using Reef which is an even ligher-weight… Continue reading
You’re One JavaScript Function Call Away From Using (Most) WebR R Functions In Your WebR-Powered Apps/Sites
After writing the initial version of a tutorial on wrapping and binding R functions on the javascript side of WebR, I had a number of other WebR projects on the TODO list. But, I stuck around noodling on the whole “wrapping & binding” thing, and it dawned on me that there was a “pretty simple”… Continue reading