shinymgr {shinymgr}

A unifying framework for managing and deploying module-based Shiny applications for reproducible analyses and rapid reporting

Description

'shinymgr' provides a unifying framework for managing and deploying Shiny applications that consist of modules. From the user's perspective, an "app” consists of a series of RShiny tabs that are presented in order, establishing an analysis workflow; results are saved as an RDS file that fully reproduces the analytic steps and can be ingested into an RMarkdown report for rapid reporting. Modules are the basic element in the 'shinymgr' framework; they can be used and re-used across different apps. New "apps" can be created with the 'shinymgr' app builder that "stitches" shiny modules together so that outputs from one module serve as inputs to the next, creating an analysis pipeline that is easy to implement and maintain. In short, developers use the 'shinymgr' framework to write modules and seamlessly combine them into shiny apps, and users of these apps can execute reproducible analyses that can be incorporated into reports for rapid dissemination.

Details

The 'shinymgr' learnr tutorials include, in order:

1. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "intro", package = "shinymgr")

2. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "shiny", package = "shinymgr")

3. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "modules", package = "shinymgr")

4. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "app_modules", package = "shinymgr")

5. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "tests", package = "shinymgr")

6. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "shinymgr", package = "shinymgr")

7. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "database", package = "shinymgr")

8. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "shinymgr_modules", package = "shinymgr")

9. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "apps", package = "shinymgr")

10. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "analyses", package = "shinymgr")

11. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "reports", package = "shinymgr")

12. learnr::run_tutorial(name = "deployment", package = "shinymgr")

Author(s)

Laurence Clarfeld, Caroline Tang, and Therese Donovan

References

https://code.usgs.gov/vtcfwru/shinymgr

See Also

Useful links:

• https://code.usgs.gov/vtcfwru/shinymgr

• Report bugs at https://code.usgs.gov/vtcfwru/shinymgr/-/issues

Examples

## Only run this example in interactive R sessions
if (interactive()) {
# load shinymgr
library(shinymgr)

# set the directory path that will house the shinymgr project
parentPath <- tempdir()
shinyMgrPath <- paste0(parentPath, '/shinymgr')

# set up raw directories and fresh database
shinymgr_setup(parentPath, demo = TRUE)

# look the file structure 
list.files(
  path = shinyMgrPath,
  recursive = FALSE
)

# launch the demo project
launch_shinymgr(shinyMgrPath = shinyMgrPath)

# remove demo
unlink(shinyMgrPath, recursive = TRUE)

}