Add Plug-In API about radiant

[vnijs]

I will create docs and an example of how you can add components. In the meantime, you need a file with an analysis, a summary, and a plot function (see R/, e.g., single_mean.R). Then you need a file that generates the ui for the tool (e.g., single_mean_ui.R) and then you add a line to the overall app ui-file (e.g., ui.R).

You can also source chunks of one app into another (see here).

[picarus]

The idea of "add-ins" to be fully developed would require not having to modify the existing code (ui.R) but be able to extend it.
A possible idea would be to call Radiant with an additional parameter that contains the path to a folder containing the required files. As an example:
radiant(“quant”,folder=”myExtensions”)
radiant(folder="myExtensions")
and myExtensions would contain the file pairs xxxx.R and xxxx_ui.R and possibly a third one to extend ui.R.

[vnijs]

@picarus I like this idea. I will try to put an example together in the next couple of weeks.

FYI my hope is that extensions could be housed at the repos linked below. That way they will be organized and improvements can be more easily shared across projects.

https://github.com/radiant-rstats

[vnijs]

That took a bit longer than planned :)

Radiant development has been moved to https://github.com/radiant-rstats. Updated documentation is available at https://radiant-rstats.github.io/docs/. The new structure of the app should make it easier to extend the app with new menus. Take a look at https://github.com/radiant-rstats/radiant.design as an example of how to extend Radiant

As soon as the development versions of Shiny and DT hit CRAN I'll push the new Radiant packages as well

Please open any new issues at https://github.com/radiant-rstats/radiant/issues