Interactive Documents

How I learn

I confess I jump in first and then read the documentation. However, I am convinced the learning sinks in faster this way.

The Request

I received a request for a dashboard. Um, not in the scope of work but I want to play with the interactive components of a Quarto documents.

I jump in and I can’t not get the Server side to recognize the data. What I did not catch at first was the concept of Execution Contexts.

#| context: setup
#| include: false

# load libraries
library(dplyr)

# load data
dataset <- import_data("data.csv")
dataset <- sample_n(dataset, 1000)

I finally got my head around this was finally starting to display data. However, I was not thrilled on the output of the valueBoxes. Again, in the Quarto document it may not be the best context for them. Maybe use a general text based report.

One thing to consider will be to try and learn Observable JS. I am taking a class later this month.