Howdy,
Happy to report that production[1] and development[2] sets of Discovery
Dashboards are up and running again, this time managed by Puppet. (There
was a bug with web proxies and DNS settings that delayed this
announcement.) Theoretically they should be snappier to use now because
there is no longer an extra virtualization (Vagrant) layer and they are
running directly on Labs instances.
R is a software and programming language mainly used for statistical
inference, machine learning, and data wrangling & visualization. RStudio's
Shiny[3] is a framework for developing web applications in R, and it's what
Discovery's dashboards are written in.
The Reading::Discovery::Analysis team (with guidance and help from
Guillaume Lederrey) is proud to announce a new module available in Ops'
Puppet repo: shiny_server[4], which installs & configures RStudio's Shiny
Server[5] for serving R/Shiny applications. The module also provides
resources for installing R packages from CRAN, GitHub, and other remote git
repositories like Gerrit. For a practical example, refer to Discovery
Dashboards base[6] and production[7] profiles.
Cheers,
Mikhail on behalf of Discovery Analysts
[1]
https://discovery.wmflabs.org
[2]
https://discovery-beta.wmflabs.org/
[3]
https://shiny.rstudio.com/
[4]
https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/tree/production/modules/shiny_server
[5]
https://www.rstudio.com/products/shiny/shiny-server/
[6]
https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/blob/production/modules/profile/manifes…
[7]
https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/blob/production/modules/profile/manifes…