The useR! 2016 conference, the annual gathering of R users from around the world, is already underway at Stanford University. Today is a day of interactive tutorials, and the presentation program begins tomorrow.

Effective Shiny Programming useR 2016 at Stanford University Joe Cheng joe@rstudio.

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