Shiny Web News Today

Python pandas creator Wes McKinney has joined data science company Posit as a principal architect, signaling the company's efforts to play a bigger role in the Python universe as well as the R ecosystem.

After 10 years as an R framework, Shiny comes to a second language.

After 10 years as an R framework, the Shiny web framework is now available for Python in an alpha release.

RStudio's Barret Schloerke this week offered Shiny developers details of an R package offering improved testing for R Shiny applications. shinytest2 version 0.1.0, on CRAN since Wednesday, allows for automated testing of Shiny Web app interactivity. That testing is done via chromote, a headless Chrome browser. During a presentation at a Shiny conference sponsored by

An updated Shiny testing package and new Shiny framework were featured at this week's Shiny conference.