As a Shiny web developer it’s really common to leverage existing packages to create your HTML. But what if a package gets you 90% of where you want to go, and you want to customize it a little?
In this tutorial I give a default DT table a small makeover by combining the datatable’s dataTables_length element and the datatables `dataTables_info element. How did I find the names of these elements?
I’m always trying to sharpen my JavaScript skills and I thought a good way of doing this would be to turn some dataframes I had lying around into JavaScript arrays of objects. What resulted is a love letter to the little R functions that are in actuality powerhouses and make our lives so easy because the best way I’ve seen to write these in JavaScript is, well, cray.
Yesterday I interviewed for a position maintaining and creating ShinyApps. To call that a JOB is crazy to me. I love developing reactive web applications, the fact that you can get paid to do that is still mind blowing. I’m realizing that having fun at work is actually a possibility!
That said, the data scientist position usually includes a live coding portion. I went into it trying to treat my first one as practice, but every second I didn’t spend typing spanned an eternity.