Announcing ShinyTester - a package that helps you build Shiny apps

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 17:16:57 +0000

Shiny is awesome, but can be a bit daunting and easy to make mistakes in. I recently came back to Shiny after a hiatus of a few years and it was much more challenging than I feel comfortable admitting. I was making bonehead mistakes like writing something instead of output$something, confusing where to put Output commands vs Render commands, etc. I would eventually find my mistake, curse myself and move on with a crumpled ego. Then I had the realization that maybe if I was a beginner, I wouldn’t even know what I was doing wrong. Thusly did I conclude that I was in a unique position to help out the R community: Dumb enough to make mistakes, but experienced enough to eventually remember how to resolve them. So naturally, I wrote an R package that tests the code of the Shiny app itself.

Syntax on Amit Kohli

Announcing ShinyTester - a package that helps you build Shiny apps