Revolutions

It was my great pleasure to present last week to the NYC Data Hackers on the topic of Copilot for R. If you haven't come across Copilot before, it's like an AI-based pair programmer that suggests new lines of code, and perhaps entire functions, based...

On July 1 2023, the MRAN website and the CRAN snapshot archive hosted therein will be retired, Microsoft announced last week.
One purpose of MRAN was to distribute Microsoft R Open, which was discontinued in 2021. MRAN has also served since 2014 as the repository of a daily archive of CRAN packages. Some R users may still be using these static CRAN snapshots as a default CRAN...

Ever written a tutorial for R — or simply shared some R code with someone — and been told that your code doesn't work on their machine? There's now an easy way to solve that problem: Dev Containers. Dev Containers are a standardized container format...

by Hong Ooi
This article is a lightly-edited version of the "Microsoft365R and Shiny" vignette in the latest Microsoft365R release.
We describe how to incorporate Microsoft365R and interactive authentication with Azure Active Directory (AAD) into a Shiny web app. There are a few steps involved:...