Automatic documentations of functions for Shiny app using RStudio

Question

I am developing a Shiny app at the moment and getting to a point with more functions than I expected. I plan to start automated testing with testthat and I would love to document my functions with roxygen2.

Since I am using RStudio, I started a new shiny app project. Now I am wondering, since I want the documentation and testing done, if I should instead start a package in RStudio to get all the devtools functions.

I am wondering, how to get the functions documented properly and like in the build, to test the examples. Plus using the testthat functions. How can I set up a project like this?

Emissary

r-pkgs.had.co.nz is a must; and imho packaging is a great way/idea to go one step further in R and programming as a whole. – Olathe

So, than maybe a stupid question, how do you get the Run App button to start the shiny app, or do you just execute the shinyApp() via hand? :-) – Emissary

would you like to lauch the app when you type library(your_pkg)? perhaps you can have a look there. but you may also want to have the possiblity to run the app by hand. if you're not happy with this function you can create an alias eg fire <- function() shinyApp(ui, server) – Olathe

Thanks, I added the fire function already. – Emissary

Answer 1

Since I found now a workflow which works for me, I described this on a different question.

developing shiny app as a package and deploying it to shiny server

Emissary