Slack is a useful communication tool for communities and businesses. Integrating it with Shiny can make it even more useful. I'll show how my {shinyslack} package allows for connections between Shiny apps and Slack teams. I’ll show how users can wrap their existing Shiny UIs to quickly and easily add Slack authentication to their Shiny apps. I'll also demonstrate how we’ve used {shinyslack} to manage and streamline the R4DS Online Learning Community, and how other R users might make the most of their Slack workspaces.
Jon runs the R4DS Online Learning Community and is the Principal Data Scientist of the Content Science team at Macmillan Learning. When he isn't trying to analyze and improve educational content, he tries to "pay it forward" for all the help he's gotten learning R over the last several years. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his spouse, two children, and two large dogs.
