A Metaphor
Shiny Bridges Two Worlds of R Programming
In Harry Potter, the Knight Bus connected the non-magical, or “Muggle”, world to the magical Wizarding World. Similarly, Shiny connects regular R code to the magical world of “reactives” (we will talk more about these later).
| 1. Muggle World | 2. Wizarding World |
|---|---|
| - Regular R code | - Reactives |
| - Functions, packages, etc | - Functions w/o arguments |
- Values that can’t be changed with <- |
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- Packaged in a server function |
The Wizarding world can reach out to the Muggle world, but not the other way around.