Episode 11: Yoni Sidi

By The Shiny Dev Series Team

August 20, 2020

In episode 11 of the Shiny Developer Series, we are joined by R package author and Shiny enthusiast Yoni Sidi. We discuss Yoni’s stories of how Shiny brought immediate and positive impact to his daily work across industries such as life sciences, the origins of his popular ggedit package, a new package to drill deeper into testing reactivity in Shiny apps, and much more!

Resources mentioned in the episode

{ggedit} - Interactively edit ggplot layer aesthetics and theme definitons: yonicd.github.io/ggedit
Lightning talk on {ggedit} at rstudio::conf 2017 (timestamp 13:35-19:35): rstudio.com/resources/rstudioconf-2017/lightning-talks-users
{ggedit} video series on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLruc2EmpfX8Vceb2rE4uwbWV3CrkTlwLj
{reactor} - Unit testing for Shiny reactivity (likely will be renamed): github.com/yonicd/reactor
{reactor} demonstration YouTube video: youtu.be/RW5hYtXxmCA
{qibble} - Tidy framework to manage jobs on the Open Grid Scheduler: github.com/yonicd/qibble
{shinyHeatmaply} - Shiny application and Shiny gadget for the {heatmaply} package: yonicd.github.io/shinyHeatmaply
Israel Election Polls Analysis Depot Shiny application: yonicd.github.io/Elections
Track NONMEM (Nonlinear Mixed Effects Modelling) progress while model evaluates with Shiny: github.com/yonicd/NMTracker
{streamline} - Utilities to work with NONMEM Control Stream files: github.com/yonicd/streamline
{lintr} - Static code analysis for R: github.com/jimhester/lintr
The slackverse family of packages to interact with Slack:
- {slackteams} - Manage and interact with multiple Slack teams in R: yonicd.github.io/slackteams
- {slackcalls} - Generic package to call slack API from R: github.com/yonicd/slackcalls
- {slackthreads} - Wrangle Slack conversations, replies, and threads in R: github.com/yonicd/slackthreads
- {slackblocks} - Slack Blocks in R: github.com/yonicd/slackblocks
- {slackreprex} - reprex + slack: yonicd.github.io/slackreprex

Episode Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

3:10 - Breaking R into Israel’s central bank

6:25 - First Shiny app and growing as a Shiny developer

11:35 - On working with Tal Galili & heatmaply

12:45 - The story of ggedit

23:30 - The value of Shiny in Yoni’s work

32:50 - Advice on learning Shiny

36:22 - reactor package for unit testing reactivity

43:30 - Closing thoughts