Practical Plumber Patterns

Plumber is a package that allows R users to create APIs out of R functions. This flexible approach allows R processes to be accessed by toolchains and frameworks outside of R.

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Practical Plumber Patterns

January 30, 2020

Plumber is a package that allows R users to create APIs out of R functions. This flexible approach allows R processes to be accessed by toolchains and frameworks outside of R. In this talk, we'll look at useful patterns for developing and working with robust APIs built in R using Plumber.

About the speaker

James Blair

James is a Solutions Engineer at RStudio, where he focusses on helping RStudio commercial customers successfully manage RStudio products. He is passionate about connecting R to other toolchains through tools like ODBC and APIs. He has a background in statistics and data science and finds any excuse he can to write R code.