WayneGitShell
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3 years ago Hi Robin,
This is an excellent suggestion and something I've already been looking in to. However, there is a technical challenge...
I don't think its possible to create a single standard Rmd report which will fit everybody's needs. My personal view is that an Rmd report will only be used if it can be customised by the users, i.e. the premise here is that you can get a template with some basic visualisations/animations etc from GWSDAT which the user can further edit to their own needs. Here in lies the problem..
I can't find a way that you can create animations in a word document -hence my post on https://community.rstudio.com/t/animation-in-microsoft-word-with-rmarkdown/97616
I'm open to suggestions and collaboration here on a way forward...
Wayne
Would it be possible to expose parts of the internals of GWSDAT to allow for their easy embedding within other shiny apps or Rmd docs?
Two obvious use cases are a shiny dashboard showing a bunch of metrics for a site including one groundwater tab that embedded the GWSDAT "Analyse" tab. Since the dashboard would be for a particular site, the data set would always be the same the ability to manage data sources would not be needed. A second use case would be an Rmd document that included an embedded shiny component that showed (for example), just the "Spatial Image" frame with the time series slider.
The disadvantage, of course, is that it would make internal re-factoring harder.