Optimizing Shiny Application Performance through Caching Techniques

As the holiday season enters the picture, learn how a humble R package helps you to give thanks to the contributors of your open-source package. Plus a practical introduction to missing value interpolation with a tried-and-true R package with a rich history, and a comprehensive analysis to predict an NBA superstar's next shot result (who has made a lot of shots already in his career).
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)
• Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package
• How to Interpolate Missing Values in R: A Step-by-Sthttps://github.com/ropensci/allcontributors/?tab=readme-ov-file#contributorsep Guide with Examples
• Predicting NBA Score Plays - Steph Curry Shots
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W49

Supplement Resources

• allcontributors - Acknowledge all contributors to a project https://docs.ropensci.org/allcontributors/
• Contributor section of {allcontributors} README https://github.com/ropensci/allcontributors/?tab=readme-ov-file#contributors
• zoo - S3 Infrastructure for Regular and Irregular Time Series https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/zoo/index.html
• mice - Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations https://amices.org/mice/
• naniar - Data structures, summaries, and visualization for missing data http://naniar.njtierney.com/
• hoopR - Data and tools for men's basketball https://hoopr.sportsdataverse.org/
• BasketballAnalyzeR - Analysis and Visualization of Basketball Data https://github.com/sndmrc/BasketballAnalyzeR/tree/master
• Optimizing R/Shiny App Performance with Advanced Caching Techniques https://www.appsilon.com/post/r-shiny-caching-techniques

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