mking-dashboard

A Shiny application...

Change Log

1/22/2025

• Original R code sourced from https://github.com/mking579/Dashboard/blob/main/app.R
• Separated app.R into three components: global.R, server.R, ui.R
• Datasets are sourced straight from the GitHub repository
• Replaced usage of %>% with the newer base R pipe |> to reduce package dependency
• Used rsconnect::writeManifest to write app metadata for Posit Connect Cloud (see this site)
• App is live on Posit Connect Cloud: https://01949177-2ccc-ffe2-3233-5a7c0dade354.share.connect.posit.cloud/

1/23/2025

• Added working graphs for all tabs
  • All are basically a similar time series graph
  • For sug_migration_data, used an ordered bar plot by state (restricted to single university_selected)
• Updated to ggplot2 best practices (e.g., use aes instead of deprecated aes_string)
• Used linewidth instead of size for geom_line width
• Display the selected variable name in the plot title
• Parse the columns in healthcare_data, voter_turnout_data and incarceration_data to be numeric (added app dependency to stringr package)
• Added multi-axis graph for healthcare expenditures
• Fixed selector items for incarceration_variable to match dataset column names

2/6/2025

• Removed the "Classes" tab, as that will be moved to Quarto website
• Added drop-down menus to like-pages
• Added dependency for lubridate for date parsing
• Added dependency on tidyr for data manipulation
• Added dependency on plotly for interactive plotting
• Recreated manifest.json using rsconnect::writeManifest

2/21/2025

• Added readr dependency for cleaner column names
• Added DT dependency to display table
• Added simple tables for IPED and MS School Achievement (to start), with filters to institution and district, respectively