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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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A generative AI image of a wall calendar behind a desk. The calendar is a mess.

Remembering what I did this week with LLMs

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

Jan 24, 2025

An RStudio editor window with library(shiny) and library(bslib).

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

An AI-generated pencil-drawn sketch of a dream sequence. A spiral staircase descends into a clock face, surrounded by planets, clouds and stars.

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

The headless Chrome preview of the slides in a Chrome window.

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
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    Latest Projects

    {epoxy}
    Extra-strength glue for scripts, reports, and apps
    Sep 20, 2023

    🧼 cleanrmd
    Clean Class-Less R Markdown HTML Documents
    Jun 13, 2022

    🔮 rsthemes
    Full RStudio IDE and Syntax Themes
    Oct 1, 2020

    🍰 shrtcts
    Make anything an RStudio shortcut!
    Sep 13, 2020

    🎡 xaringanExtra
    A playground of enhancements and extensions for xaringan slides.
    Jul 6, 2020

    ℹ️ metathis
    and social media cards for R-made web things
    Sep 11, 2019

    ⏲️ countdown
    A countdown timer for R Markdown slides and HTML docs
    May 7, 2019

    🤹 tidyexplain
    Animations of tidyverse verbs using R, the tidyverse, and gganimate.
    Aug 27, 2018

    🎨 xaringanthemer
    Give your xaringan slides some style without (much) CSS
    May 12, 2018
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      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
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