tech_review: Web Assembly

[voglerdaniel]

Read up on Web Assembly & how we can use it to deploy local computational resources for our final project website

[atkissoncj]

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2023-04-09_webr/ https://github.com/djnavarro/webr-automata https://laderast.github.io/webr-demo/#/title-slide https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/04/webr-0-3-1/ https://www.nienxiangtou.com/posts/webr/ (webr + quarto) https://github.com/r-wasm/webr/?tab=readme-ov-file https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/

[atkissoncj]

Here's a thing about WebR: Not all packages can be run on it. Many of these issues come from packages that are downloading data from somewhere. This happens because many of those are using sockets, but since WebAssembly is through js, all of those need to be FETCHs, instead. So that breaks. Also, we can't compile from source, meaning that things like BioConductor aren't available (since BioConductor is almost an alternative repository system to CRAN).

Here are the packages that I found dependencies for in our code, if they're available, and what is preventing it.

package - if available for WebR - package that is preventing it

tigris - NO - curl sf - yes XXX tidyverse - NO - curl usmap - yes readxl - yes toxpiR - NO - S4Vectors, BiocGenerics tidycensus - NO - curl raster - yes terra - yes urbnmapr - not on CRAN

ALL TIDYVERSE packages are supported, just not tidyverse ggplot2 - yes dplyr - yes tidyr - yes readr - yes

[voglerdaniel]

Done