Make a wordcloud of a stack-overflow user's "tag"s
This app shows a wordcloud, where the word sizes are scaled according to the number of times a stack-overflow user has answered questions for a particular tag.
It was developed to work out how to deploy a shiny app to shinyapps.io
Thanks to the developers of {shiny}, {wordcloud} (for generating the wordcloud image) and {stackr} (for accessing stackoverflow data)
Define the environment
Use renv inside a conda env !!!!
Initialised the project to use renv
conda env: "shiny-wordcloud" (cloned from shiny-base)
- already has shiny installed
then on loading R, and attempting to run shiny::runApp(), it complained that shiny was not installed.
Therefore need to install all deployment packages using renv.
So, used install.packages to add
- shiny
- wordcloud
- remotes
- rsconnect (to allow deployment to shinyapps.io)
and used remotes::install_github("dgrtwo/stackr")
(indeed, I could have cloned the rstudio-prereqs environment rather than the shiny-base environment when making shiny-wordcloud)
Then configured rsconnect for pushing to shinyapps.io: As described at shinyapps.io (rsconnect::setAccountInfo(blah, secret, ....))
library(rsconnect)
rsconnect::deployApp()
Notes
Don't include .Rprofile when deploying to shinyapps.io (the deployed app won't
be able to find the renv/activate script)