R packages are essential tools for data science, but how reliable are they? This talk will explore methods for evaluating the quality and potential risks associated with R packages, focusing on key factors like community engagement, development activity, documentation standards, and code quality. We’ll discuss the toolset used as the standard at Jumping Rivers for validating packages with clients, offering advanced scoring methods, customizable risk thresholds, and the ability to incorporate data from external sources to deliver a more comprehensive assessment of package risks.

We are pleased to announce the lightning talks for this year's Shiny in Production conference! In this blog post, we've pulled together all of the talk abstracts to give you a full view of what to expect!

October 2025

Shiny in Production Conference is fast approaching and we wouldn't be able to put it on without the support of our sponsors!

October 2025

October 2025

We are pleased to announce the full length talks for this year's Shiny in Production conference! In this blog post, we've pulled together all of the talk abstracts to give you a full view of what to expect!

- David Carayon: The SK8 project - Osheen Macoscar: Using Google Lighthouse to Analyse Shiny Applications - Astrid Radermacher: Jumping Rivers' package quality evaluation platform for regulated industries - Juan Ramon Vallarta Robledo: Chagas diagnostic algorithms: an online application to estimate cost and effectiveness of diagnostic algorithms for Chagas disease

October 2025

Do you use R? Would you like to play a part in sustaining it? Find out about the R Dev Day that is returning as a satellite event to Shiny in Production 2025. This post will answer questions you may have, such as: “Do I need to be an R guru to participate?”, “What will I be expected to do?”, and “Is there a cost to attend?”. Hopefully by the end, you’ll be motivated to sign up!

The Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI) Schools Outreach initiative aims at promoting data literacy and statistical concepts to the next generation of Statisticians and Data Scientists. Volunteers attend secondary schools to present from specialised workshops which are designed to be interactive, engaging and aligned to the national curriculum for different age groups. The PSI Visualisation Special Interest Group (VIS SIG) created a Shiny application to supplement an existing workshop for Asthma. This workshop aims to introduce the students to analysis of continuous data and make them think about concealing treatment assignment and consider false positive and false negative results. The application allowed electronic data capture the ability to dynamically explore their own data, re-enforcing the statistical concepts and making learning more engaging and accessible. Each school is different in terms of class size, computer resources and student abilities, therefore the application needed to be flexible to account for this...

All our videos from Shiny in Production 2024, collected together in one place.

All too often, Shiny gets criticized for scaling poorly ‐ and yet the DynastyProcess Shiny app crushes those expectations by serving over 95,000 unique users each month! In this talk, we’ll deep dive into the motivations, architecture, and design decisions driving the development of a massively popular app and share takeaways for scaling up your own apps.

Generative AI offers huge potential for driving creativity by suggesting new ideas and perspectives and can also improve efficiency by rapidly processing and extracting insights from large volumes of text. However, using a chatbot-style tool such as ChatGPT can be overwhelming as users have to work out, through trial and error, which questions and instructions give them the outputs they need. The Government Internal Audit Agency’s data analytics team has created two R shiny web applications, each of which simplifies the user’s experience of using generative AI by providing a user-friendly interface and implementing a set of standardised prompts. The Risk Engine walks the user through a stepwise process to explore and articulate the potential risks that might impact any given business objective. The Writing Engine enables users to analyse and generate text in several ways, including generating a draft audit report from rough notes, and summarising common themes from...

October 2025

The details of all of our workshops for Shiny in Production are now live on the conference website. Read on for full details all in one place.

The details of all of our workshops for Shiny in Production are now live on the conference website. Read on for full details all in one place.

Due to popular demand we are extending the abstract deadline for [Shiny in Production 2025](https://shiny-in-production.jumpingrivers.com/), to be held on 8th-9th October 2025 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Read on for more details on how to submit your work.