rpodcast/hotshots.dashboard

A Shiny-powered dashboard summarizing virtual racing league stats!

The Hotshots Racing Dashboard!

This dashboard is part of a very fun stack of open-source software created for the Official Wimpy’s World of Linux Gaming Most Official Unofficial Hotshot Racing League Spring Championship (WWOLGMOUHRLSC) competition that took place in early 2021. A group of friends from Martin Wimpress’ Wimpy’s World discord channel who just so happen to really enjoy racing games decided to have a little competition using the retro-style racing game called Hotshot Racing. On top of the immense fun we had, I thought it was a great time to collect our own real-time data for each race and summarize it all with the power of R and Shiny!

The application is deployed here: rpodcast.shinyapps.io/hotshot_dashboard

Want to see the replays of each grand prix session? All of the previous sessions are available on Martin’s YouTube channel!

• Grand Prix 1: The Tour
• Grand Prix 2: Pro Circuit
• Grand Prix 3: Racing Elite
• Grand Prix 4: HotShot!
• Grand Prix 5: Boss Level

Installation

You can install the released version of hotshots.dashboard from GitHub:

remotes::install_github("rpodcast/hotshots.dashboard")

Code of Conduct

Please note that the hotshots.dashboard project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

hotshots.dashboard's Issues

Add widgets for animation options

A few of the plotly animation options are currently hard-coded in the plot reactive such as:

• time between frames (500)
• easing method (linear)

Add simple inputs to let user customize these.

Move animated plot to dedicated module

With the new features I plan to implement for the animated chart, it makes more sense to break it out into a dedicated module. Currently it hard-codes the actual trace used (bar chart segments, point, or emoji text), and only lets the user choose the x axis var (total points, number of top 3 finishes, or total DNFs). We can add more options as widgets either above the chart itself or in an expandable sidebar in the bs4Dash box:

• Time between frames
• Type of display
• Size of points / emoji / line segments
• Colors for each racer (only applicable for the non-emoji display)

New styling to animated bar chart

The current animated (horizontal) bar chart constructed with plotly is pretty neat, but it could use some extra polish to take it to another style level. Ideally, we could animate a simple little car either immediately to the right of the bar, or in the top region of the bar. Perhaps using a custom emoji or other unicode-like symbol as discussed in chapter 28 of Carson's Plotly book might work?

add loading app ui with waiter