Shiny

Some projects evolve naturally by combining previous efforts into something new and useful. This happened recently when I fullfiled a client request by extending an existing RStudio Shiny application using what initially seemed like unrelated, separate components.
End users could upload a software vendor inventory text file in the existing Shiny application. Key attributes in that file were joined across several database views and a Shiny data table report returned the aggregated data to the user.

A client wanted an easy way to quickly view upcoming event lists for any of their G Suite domain’s Google Resource Calendars. I tried keeping the solution entirely within R by using the googleAuthR package but domain-wide delegated authentication didn’t work properly for me so I reverted to Python. Without too much anguish I wrote a working parameterized script that returns Google resource calendar event details based on resource calendar ID and event count script arguments.

I built a Shiny application recently for a client that accepts uploaded files and matches data attributes in those files to corporate directory information stored on the server in an RDS file. After some trial and error I was able to piece together something useful and produce a self-service Shiny solution. This example illustrates the key concept of properly referencing reactive data objects when accessing them outside the function that created them in the following “contents()” and “mergedData()” references.