Virtual useR! 2024

I presume that, as R developers, we’ve heard of or perhaps used shiny package to develop web applications, and that, we can attest to the fact that it has emerged as a popular framework for developing dashboards in R. These shiny dashboards provide a dynamic platform for data exploration, analysis, and dissemination, making them invaluable tools for researchers, analysts, and decision-makers. However, as the volume and complexity of data grow, maintaining and updating these dashboards manually can become a time-consuming and error-prone process. Automating updates to shiny dashboards deployed on shiny server offers a solution to this challenge, enabling developers to streamline the deployment pipeline, enhance efficiency, and ensure the timely dissemination of accurate information. This session will be a hands-on tutorial that will take you through the process of setting up the workflow that works in such a way that, a push event to the main branch of a GitHub repository triggers a webhook that in turn sends a payload to an API which also triggers a bash script to do a git pull from the same repository.

Tutorial Materials: https://github.com/oyogo/useR2024_tutorial_materials