Small Package Broad Impact
How I discovered the ultimate new hire hack
Trang Lê
data scientist, BMS
OCTober 2021
a few weeks later...
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Understand company's systems
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Build relationships
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Develop skills/contribute
milestones
a bitesize
problem
1
Where can I find the color templates?
The fonts?
What are these .woff2 and .ttf files?
2
How does Shiny work?
Where do we host the apps?
Will bslib be useful?
3
4
Will the user always have to install the BMS fonts manually?
How do I distribute this package?
5
Leslie Emery
an "excuse" to talk to my incredible colleagues
Clara Amorosi
Loan Robinson
Iain Wallace
great starting points for our conversations
internals
- Jira tickets
- Confluence pages
- VPN/proxy
What new R skills have I learned?
bslib rules! 👑
bs_theme_preview()bs_theme(
primary = "#be2bbb", secondary = "#eee7e",
success = "#1dce9b", info = "#009fba",
warning = "#ffac25", danger = "#df603a"
)
bms_light <- function(
version = 3,
primary = "#be2bbb", secondary = "#eee7e",
success = "#1dce9b", info = "#009fba",
warning = "#ffac25", danger = "#df603a",
font = c("bms", "bms_nw"),
fallback_font = "Arial Narrow", dir = "bmsfonts", ...
) {
...
bslib::bs_theme(
version = version,
primary = primary, secondary = secondary,
success = success, info = info, warning = warning, danger = danger,
base_font = bslib::font_collection(base_font, fallback_font), ...
)
}bslib rules! 👑
Clunky: install font and load into R manually
.onLoad <- function(){
shiny::addResourcePath(
"bmsfonts",
system.file("fonts", "bmsdash")
)
sysfonts::font_add("BMS Humanity")
}
fluidPage(
theme = bms_light(),
...
)
diamond
diamond +
scale_fill_bms() +
theme_bms()
show_bms_colors()
theme = bms_light() |>
bslib::bs_add_rules(
sass::as_sass("
table.dataTable tbody
tr.active td {
background: #A69F9F
!important;
}"
)
)
DT::datatable format may still have the default blue when selecting a row.
To change this color, we can use bs_add_rules() to add a little more sass.
⚠️ Watch out for
different bootstrap versions!!!!
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Understand company's systems
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Build relationships
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Develop skills/contribute
milestones
- connect to databases
- impute missing values
- common visualizations
- data aggregations
Packages
- documentation
- setup guide
- benchmarks
Notebooks
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🛞
reinvent the wheel -
💨 speed up routine tasks
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🔥 consistency
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✨ streamline updates
a package
The start of something bigger
What can we all do?
Be welcoming
invite people to contribute to your existing project
#good-first-issue
be kind
- and flexible
- and patient
- give bravos, authorships
BUIld together
- packages
- notebooks
- memes
- institutional knowledge
Thank you!
