subreddit-activity-shiny

Simple shiny app for exploring the live users count from a selection of subreddits.

See it live at https://dbeley.shinyapps.io/subreddit-activity-shiny.

Data extracted with subreddit_tracker.

Gallery

Installation

Run the app locally from source

• Install rstudio.
• Clone/Download the project on your computer.
• Open the .Rproj file with rstudio to load the R project.
• Open the app.R file.
• Click on the run app button.
• Wait for the dependencies to be installed (can take quite some time as the packages are compiled from source).
• The app should launch after that.

Run the app locally with runGithub

In rstudio, run the following code :

options(Ncpus=4)
install.packages('shiny')
library('shiny')
runGitHub('subreddit-activity-shiny', 'dbeley')

Known Issues

• There are quite a number of outliers in the data. This may be due to an error in the data extraction or in the reddit API.
• When there are missing values, the graph draws a long line connecting the two valid points surrounding the missing range.
• Missing values breaks the smoothing.
• Missing values sometimes breaks the summary graphs.

.env file

To use the provided docker-compose file with traefik, you will need an .env file with this content.

DEFAULT_NETWORK=traefik-netowrk
DOMAIN=localhost