CONVERT EXE TO APP FULL
The good news here is that IE, remembers that it was in full screen mode when you close and re-open it, so that’s another problem solved. We therefore changed the default browser to Microsoft’s IE, and put it in full screen mode (with F11) when it first opened. This only got us part of the way though, because the default browser on Windows 10, Microsoft’s Edge, doesn’t have a full screen mode, which makes the app look less slick. We wrote a simple batch file that would start the app. R and the required packages are installed on the tablets, ready to start the configuration that would allow the whole Mango team to use them in the high pressure, high visibility setting of a stand at an extremely busy conference. In turn this means, not starting RStudio, or having to type anything in to start the app.
This meant that anything from the everyday world of R had to be abstracted away or made as simple to use as possible.
CONVERT EXE TO APP WINDOWS 10
The tablets in question are cheap Windows 10 devices, nothing special, but we had to come up with a way of running the application that would be simple enough for the non-R-using members of the team. I think the fact that it was written with Shiny has actually surprised a few people, largely because of how it looks and the way that we run it. The app uses the radarchart package which you can find on github. More specifically, we used a Shiny app written by one of our Senior Data Scientists, Aimee Gott. Mango is primarily known for its work with the R language, so it should come as no surprise that this is the secret sauce used in the creation of the app.
In this post we’ll take a look at how we did it, and hopefully show you how easy it is to do yourself. Since we first demoed it at our really successful trip to Strata London last year, a few people have asked us how we made the awesome looking Data Science Radar app that we were running on the tablets we had with us.
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