Hello again, and welcome to this week’s blog post for my senior project class. This week I’ll be talking about a couple of technologies I recently discovered, which my team will be using for our Senior Project. The first technology I explored is Docker, a containerization platform that can make our project easier to develop and deploy. The second is R Shiny, an R library we can use to make a nice and “shiny” interactive web app for our project in R without having to do too much web development.’
Over the past week, I came up with an initial design plan to develop the web app for our senior project. Our project must be easy to develop and deploy, so we want tools that make our lives easier. One such tool is Docker. With Docker, we can create a container with all the dependencies that our app needs. This makes our app more portable and helps future developers work on our project.
The other technology I discovered is Shiny, an R library for making interactive R apps. Shiny struck me as an excellent idea for our project since it seems like the most straightforward framework for developing a web app that works well with our analysis scripts written in R. Also, if we use R Shiny, we won’t have to figure out how to make Javascript interoperable with our R code.
It seems like my Senior Project group will be using both Docker and R Shiny for our project. I’m looking forward to applying these tools to our project and learning about any other technologies that may be useful for the project over the coming weeks.
