Future content to add

[aabarug]

I'm just sticking these here as some thoughts I had for future content to be added to the workshop:

1. The tutorial chapter needs to be refined and material that's repeating from earlier chapters can be cut down a little. The final app that's built can be more advanced and do more with reactivity
2. The next steps chapter should include some instructions on how/where you can host the app/how to share it with others

[nkandhari]

3. Create Shiny from within RStudio:
   New File > New Rmd document > Shiny > Shiny Document/Presentation
   Repeat step2: Sharing the published app

[aabarug]

The challenge 2 in chapter which only builds a UI interface should be moved to before the server section. Or it should include something to do with the server so it puts in practice the concepts that have been taught thus far. It's probably unneccesary to keep the widget that selects which dataset when we're only using the airquality dataset

Loading data - while the tutorial chapter has the read.csv in the server side - we can also have it at the start of the app. We don't really discuss the fact you can create global variables outside of ui/server.

[pfh]

Section 5 and the final challenge could do with a bit more context about the intention of the challenge. Perhaps a user story "Our collaborator told us they also wants a tabular view of the data to look at individual genes..."

To make the code more readable, the choices could be put in a variable before the ui section.

col_choices <- list( ... )

ui <- ... selectInput(... choices=col_choices) ...

It might also be possible to simplify the code that is not directly about shiny a little bit.

(Quibble) Row names for a data frame is not "tidy data".

[aabarug]

description of layouts, panels and what they should look like

Note: this sentence in 2.3: R Studio’s CRAN logs app: Displays 1-week delayed streaming data from the RStudio CRAN mirror logs.
Is listed amongst the Platform apps when it is not a platform app

[nkandhari]

The challenge 2 in chapter which only builds a UI interface should be moved to before the server section. Or it should include something to do with the server so it puts in practice the concepts that have been taught thus far. It's probably unneccesary to keep the widget that selects which dataset when we're only using the airquality dataset

Loading data - while the tutorial chapter has the read.csv in the server side - we can also have it at the start of the app. We don't really discuss the fact you can create global variables outside of ui/server.

I've made this change and also modified the Challenge 2