aDataScene: A-Frame Scene with R data

In shinyaframe: 'WebVR' Data Visualizations with 'RStudio Shiny' and 'Mozilla A-Frame'

Description

Create an HTML widget to sync R data with an A-Frame scene via the data-binding A-Frame component.

Usage

aDataScene(data, elementId = NULL)

Arguments

data	A data frame or a list of vectors, matrices, and/or data frames
elementId	Optionally define the output HTML element id

Details

Data will be synced to the data-binding system from the gg-aframe JavaScript library for A-Frame. Data can be bound to automatically update components in the scene with the data-binding A-Frame component. Repeat calls (e.g. within a Shiny reactive expression) will update the data-binding store and refresh bound components with the new data.

If data is a data frame, each variable will be available, by name, as a JavaScript Array in the scene data store (i.e. long form). If it is a list, each list item will be available, by name, as a JavaScript Array in the scene data store. Data frames within the list will be available as an array of Objects, with each object representing a row from the data frame (i.e. wide form).

To send multiple data frames in long form, combine them with c, and each column will be available by name in the A-Frame data-binding system. To send multiple data frames in wide form, combine them as named items in a list, and each data frame will be available as an array of objects (rows) under the name used.

Note: aDataScene is only compatible for use in Shiny apps viewed with a modern Web browser and internet connection. WebVR data visualizations are not available in Rmd documents, R Notebooks, or the RStudio Viewer at this time.

See Also

renderADataScene

Examples

library(dplyr)
library(scales)

# Execute within a renderADataScene call in a Shiny server
iris %>%
  # scale positional data to (0,1)
  mutate_if(is.numeric, rescale) %>%
  # make data available in JavaScript
  aDataScene()

shinyaframe documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:08 a.m.