Garrick Aden-Buie

I’m a Software Engineer for Shiny at Posit (formerly RStudio). I build tools that help everyone do data science in R with R Markdown and Shiny.

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Latest Posts

Read and Visualize your Twitter Archive

Using R to read and visualize my Twitter archive data. Featuring {ggiraph}, {ggplot2}, {jsonlite}, {dplyr} and more…

Dec 7, 2022

countdown v0.4.0 – Now on CRAN!

countdown v0.4.0 is now available on CRAN with a ton of new features!

Aug 15, 2022

Process Profile Pictures with magick

Process a directory full of profile pictures, resizing and cropping the images to be centered around faces.

Jul 12, 2022

xaringanExtra v0.6.0 — Now on CRAN!

xaringanExtra v0.6.0 is now available on CRAN! Plus some new features.

Jun 7, 2022

Saving Daylight Time?

How much daylight do cities across the world get throughout the year? Does Daylight Saving Time really save any daylight? A visualization to explore these questions.

Mar 12, 2022

Wordle Guess Helper

Picking words to guess in Wordle. It’s only fun if you can solve it with R.

Feb 21, 2022

branchMover: A Shiny app for moving the default branch of your GitHub repos

Introducing branchMover, a Shiny app slash RStudio addin for coordinated default branch changes across your GitHub repositories.

Nov 2, 2021

Pull Request Flow with usethis

Choose your own adventure and get in the ‘usethis’ pull request flow with this flow chart.

Oct 7, 2021

Signed and verified: signed git commits with Keybase and RStudio

Setting up signed git commits with a Keybase GPG key that works with RStudio.

Sep 13, 2021

Latest Projects

Latest talks

Professional, Polished, Presentable

A useR!2021 tutorial about making great slides with xaringan.

Jul 7, 2021

Sliding in Style

Make stylish slides with {xaringanthemer} and a little bit of CSS.

Apr 1, 2021

Making Extra Great Slides

A brief introduction to the {xaringan} package and how you can make your slides look great with {xaringanthemer} and stand out with {xaringanExtra}.

Mar 10, 2021

R Markdown: An Incomplete History

An incomplete history of the literate programming origins of R Markdown. Plus some cool things I’m tinkering with: {epoxy} and {shinyComponents}.

Feb 11, 2021

xaringan Playground

Making slides with xaringan is a great way to learn more about CSS and web development.

Jan 21, 2021

Build Your Own Universe

Scale high-quality research data provisioning with R packages package.

Aug 28, 2020

Your Slides are So Extra!

A presentation writing and benefiting from programming with functions.

Jul 8, 2020

10,000 Reasons to Love Functions

A presentation writing and benefiting from programming with functions.

May 15, 2020

Extra Awesome xaringan Presentations

A brief introduction to the {xaringan} package and how you can make your slides look great with {xaringanthemer} and stand out with {xaringanExtra}.

Feb 25, 2020