Reporting on behalf of Joseph Chou
rOpenSci package or resource used
riem
What did you do?
Use case example: developed an R Shiny app that allows interactive analysis of 20+ years of hourly METAR data of flight conditions by time of day and month at multiple airports, including:
- VFR / MVFR / IFR / LIFR category
- winds, gusts, crosswinds (based on best available runway)
- visibility and ceilings
- temperatures
- prevailing winds
- customizable personal minimums
Deployed using shinylive so can be served as a static webpage from GitHub Pages, running under web assembly (WASM) in the client browser. Additional airports pretty easy to add (but not by users, unless I make the GitHub page public and accept pull requests).
URL or code snippet for your use case
- Blog post: Original Quarto dashboard development (prior to using
riem) - Blog post: Updated to Shiny app (using
riem) - BlueSky post
- Actual METAR analysis
shinyliveapp – be patient, loading time is a bit long, because it’s loading WASM-compiled R + packages to the client