Make it pretty!

[lindsay-greene]

• Make caption of data frame outputs stand out more
• Don't display row numbers in average output (will only ever be one)
• Make average fit on one page - split into two dfs so they are on two rows?
• Get rid of or make less salient the Show (10) entries
• Put more space between the two outputs
• Add some color

[rbcavanaugh]

• check out the {bslib} package for theming - makes it really easy
• Even if you only have one page, the navbarpage layout can be nice, since you can add a github logo/link, or lab logos, and theme the navbar at the top. (see here as an example: https://aphasia-apps.shinyapps.io/PNT-CAT/)
• check out the {DT} package for customising dataTables (uses the same datatables js library) or just use the default renderTable() if you want something simpler.
• br() is a quick hack to add a break (note shiny includes most HTML items that you can access like tags$br() or tags$em() or tags$h3() etc...
• alternatively, create a /www folder and put a style.css file there and css away. you can load this at the top of your app: https://shiny.rstudio.com/articles/css.html

[jaxtastic]

We will want to add some documentation to the shiny app so that users know where the numbers come from. I am adding the info here so it will be easy to find when we add it.

Word Complexity Measure (WCM) is calculated as described in Stoel-Gammon (2010), based on lookup from a database including standard syllabified transcriptions for American English (cmudict.0.6d.syl; Bartlett et al., 2009) and word frequency measures from the SUBTLEX-US dictionary (Brysbaert & New, 2009). Word frequencies are displayed in Zipf units (van Heuven et al 2014), a logarithmic scale defined as log10(word frequency in words per billion), with distribution from approximately 1 (very low frequency) to 7 (high frequency function words, articles, etc.).

Bartlett, S., Kondrak, G., & Cherry, C. (2009, June). On the syllabification of phonemes. In Proceedings of human language technologies: The 2009 annual conference of the north american chapter of the association for computational linguistics (pp. 308-316).

Brysbaert, M., & New, B. (2009). Moving beyond Kučera and Francis: A critical evaluation of current word frequency norms and the introduction of a new and improved word frequency measure for American English. Behavior research methods, 41(4), 977-990.

Stoel-Gammon, C. (2010). The Word Complexity Measure: Description and application to developmental phonology and disorders. Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 24(4-5), 271-282.

Van Heuven, W. J., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. (2014). SUBTLEX-UK: A new and improved word frequency database for British English. Quarterly journal of experimental psychology, 67(6), 1176-1190.

[rbcavanaugh]

I'll just add a quick tip for including lots of text. You can use the includeMarkdown() function to call a markdown file into your app (saved in /www usually). This was you can just paste this text into a markdown (.md) file instead of worrying about formatting it in HTML. For example, the following would put markdown text in the middle of the page.

fluidPage(
    column(width = 10, offset = 1,
        includeMarkdown("www/nameofdoc.md")
    )
)