Colin Fay is a data scientist and engineer at ThinkR, focused on building production-grade Shiny apps and innovative webR solutions. He is an international speaker, open-source contributor, and shares insights on R, NodeJS, and data engineering through his blog and talks.
26 articles from this blog
Updates on webrcli & spidyr tools for integrating R functions into NodeJS applications, eliminating the need for a separate R runtime.
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/webrcli-and-spidyr-whats-new.md Find all my posts about webR here. Note: the first post of this series explaining roug
Introducing webrcli and spidyr, a starter toolkit for building Node.js projects that integrate R via webR, enabling seamless use of R functions in JavaScript.
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/webrcli-and-spidyr.md Find all my posts about webR here. Note: the first post of this series explaining roughly what w
Explains improvements in webR 0.2.2 for preloading R packages and custom functions using the new FS.mount feature and the webrtools package.
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/rethinking-packages-and-functions-preloading-in-webr-0.2.2.md Find all my posts about webR here. Note: the first post
Explains how to integrate custom R functions into a Node.js/Express API using webR, focusing on packaging R code for production use.
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/using-own-functions-in-webr-node-js.md Find all my posts about webR here. Note: the first post of this series explaini
Explains how to preload R packages in a webR environment within an Express.js API to avoid repeated downloads on each app launch.
A tutorial on recreating the classic Old Faithful Geyser Shiny app using webR, Bootstrap, and ExpressJS for server-side R computation.
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/old-faithful-express-bootstrap-webr.md Find all my posts about webR here. Note: the first post of this series explaini
A tutorial on integrating the WebAssembly-based webR runtime into an Express.js REST API to execute R code from a Node.js server.
A technical walkthrough solving Advent of Code 2021 Day 2 challenges using both R and JavaScript, comparing implementations.
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/aoc-2021-02.md Solving Advent of Code 2021-02 with R and JavaScript. Like yesterday, trying to write JS code that look
A technical walkthrough solving Advent of Code 2021 Day 1 challenges using both R (with purrr) and JavaScript, comparing their syntax.
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/aoc-2021-01.md Solving Advent of Code 2021-01 with R and JavaScript. I’ll try in this post to write R code that looks
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/engineering-shiny-print.md I’m so, so excited to announce that the ‘Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps’ book is n
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/post-request-shiny-app-brochure.md [Disclaimer] The package presented in this blog post is still experimental at the t
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/brochure-r-package.md [Disclaimer] The package presented in this blog post is still experimental at the time of writin
colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/blog/aoc-2020-09.md Solving Advent of Code 2020-09 with R & Neo4j. [Disclaimer] Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler
