Episode 16: Jiena Gu McLellan

By The Shiny Dev Series Team

November 21, 2020

In episode 16 of the Shiny Developer Series, we welcome software developer Jiena McLellan! Jiena shares how she has created many useful packages and Shiny applications to help not only with her day job, but for fun personal projects benefiting her friends and family too! We dive deep into her innovative DT-Editor Shiny module, as well as how she developed packages based on htmlwidgets such as the flashCard package for teaching yourself new concepts.

Resources mentioned in the episode

Jiena’s website: www.jienamclellan.com
DT Editor module demonstration app: appforiarteam.shinyapps.io/DT_editor_shiny_module
DT Editor GitHub repository: github.com/jienagu/DT-Editor
{noteMD} Print text from a Shiny UI with support for markdown to pdf or word reports: github.com/jienagu/noteMD
Demo app integrating DT Editor and noteMD: github.com/jienagu/Shiny_Full_Flow
{faq} Create a Frequenty Asked Questins page for Shiny apps: github.com/jienagu/faq
{flashCard} R package to create flash cards: github.com/jienagu/flashCard
Demo app for flashcards teaching Python syntax: appforiarteam.shinyapps.io/flashCard_demo
Jiena’s codepen for practice flash card syntax: codepen.io/Jienagu/pen/qBdNbVy
{forestry} R package with utility functions to help with reshaping hierarchy of data trees: github.com/jienagu/forestry

Episode Timestamps

0:00 Episode introduction

0:43 Introducing Jiena

4:18 DT-editor - A shiny module that allows your Shiny app users to edit and update DT tables in your shiny app https://github.com/jienagu/DT-Editor

13:23 DT-editor shiny module https://github.com/jienagu/DT_editor_shiny_module

18:33 noteMD, Add a textfield to your shiny app, which may then be printed to pdf or word.

23:23 Example blending DT editor and noteMD together https://github.com/jienagu/Shiny_Full_Flow

25:33 FAQ https://github.com/jienagu/faq

32:38 Htmlwidget flip - flashcard https://github.com/jienagu/flashCard

42:28 Demo, showing the experience of developing htmlwidgets and js code bases.

60:13 Advice for Shiny developers

63:53 Episode conclusion