jlacko

# make certain jsonlite is available
if(!require(jsonlite, quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("jsonlite")
  library(jsonlite)
}

# get the path to settings file
path <- if (Sys.info()[["sysname"]] == "Windows") {
  paste0(Sys.getenv('APPDATA'), "\\RStudio\\rstudio-prefs.json")
} else {

irazasyed

Solution for MySQL / MariaDB Start Issue on MacOS

Errors

On trying to start mysql.server start

./usr/local/bin/mysql.server: line 264: kill: (12262) - No such process ERROR!

jcheng5

Accepting POST requests from Shiny

(This post was motivated by a talk by @jnolis at CascadiaRConf 2021)

Recent versions of Shiny have an undocumented feature for handling POST requests that are not associated with any specific Shiny session. (Note that this functionality is missing our normal level of polish; it's a fairly low-level hook that I needed to make some things possible, but doesn't make anything easy.)

In a nutshell, it works by replacing your traditional ui object with a function(req), and then marking that function with an attribute indicating that it knows how to handle both GET and POST:

library(shiny)

wch

How to deal with the SystemRequirements: C++11 NOTE when running R CMD check

For the development version of R-devel which will become 4.3.0, there is a new warning in R CMD check that comes up for some packages:

* checking C++ specification ... NOTE
  Specified C++11: please drop specification unless essential