Darlington

While we’re waiting for Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham AFC film, here is a lower-league paean to Darlington FC in the shape of a sometimes clunky but disarmingly sincere autobiopic. It’s written by Paul Hodgson, dramatising his own upbringing after a diagnosis of meningococcal meningitis as a 10-month-old; he was predicted to live only a few short years. Yet, though in a wheelchair with speech and motor-coordination issues, he grows up (played by Daniel Watson) to become a hard-drinking Quakers fan with a lively social life. At…

Three simple tricks to make your R Shiny apps go from boring to beautifulImage by AuthorShiny apps don’t have to be boring. There are some easy things you can do to bring some pizzazz to your apps with just a few lines of code! In this tutorial, we are going to take a simple, informative app about the moons of our solar system, and give it a little shine.In short, we are going to be turning this plain app into this interesting one. These two apps have the exact same data, but one is a little more professional looking than…