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

Remembering what I did this week with LLMs

Using the GitHub API and {ellmer} to remember what I did this week.

Jan 24, 2025

It’s time to add bslib to your `shinyapp` snippet

library(shiny) is better with library(bslib), so let’s make it official and update our shinyapp snippet together.

Apr 22, 2024

Add last rendered or modified time to Quarto

Introducing now, a Quarto extension that adds the time right now, anywhere in your document.

Mar 29, 2024

Automated Image Overflow Detection for xaringan or remark Slides

Using chromote and a little JavaScript to detect image overflow issues in {xaringan} or remark slides.

Jul 23, 2023

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

Latest Projects

Latest Talks

Modern Dashboards with bslib

bslib is the new shinydashboard! Learn why you should choose blisb for your next Shiny app or dashboard.

Apr 18, 2024

{epoxy}

Super glue for data-driven reports and Shiny apps.

Sep 20, 2023

Seamless data-driven reporting with {epoxy}

{epoxy} is a new R package that allows report authors to seamlessly blend prose and data in markdown, HTML, and LaTeX reports.

Jun 8, 2023

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

Latest Posts

Remembering what I did this week with LLMs

It’s time to add bslib to your shinyapp snippet

Add last rendered or modified time to Quarto

Automated Image Overflow Detection for xaringan or remark Slides

Read and Visualize your Twitter Archive

countdown v0.4.0 – Now on CRAN!

Process Profile Pictures with magick

xaringanExtra v0.6.0 — Now on CRAN!

Saving Daylight Time?

Latest Projects

{epoxy}

🧼 cleanrmd

🔮 rsthemes

🍰 shrtcts

🎡 xaringanExtra

ℹ️ metathis

⏲️ countdown

🤹 tidyexplain

🎨 xaringanthemer

Latest Talks

Modern Dashboards with bslib

{epoxy}

Seamless data-driven reporting with {epoxy}

Professional, Polished, Presentable

Sliding in Style

Making Extra Great Slides

R Markdown: An Incomplete History

xaringan Playground

Build Your Own Universe

It’s time to add bslib to your `shinyapp` snippet