On 26/08/2015 6:43 AM, Jombart, Thibaut wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a package implementing a shiny app, putting the R code of the app
> (server.R and ui.R) in inst/... and then having a simple function merely
> starting the app with something along the lines of:
> runApp(system.file("inst/..."))
>
> However, the app itself uses functions from packages which are not used
> elsewhere in the code. What is the best way to declare these dependencies
> (using roxygen2)? My 2-cents would be e.g a doc.R file with something along
> the lines of:
> [...]
> #' @importFrom pkg function1 function2
> NULL
>
> But are their better ways / best practices?
You'll have to ask questions like these on a Shiny forum.
> On a related topic: are there plans of formally incorporating shiny apps in
> the structure of a R package, so that the checks will run through the code of
> the apps as well?
No, but it would be very easy to do: just write a function that tests
those things, and call it from a script in the tests directory.
Duncan Murdoch
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