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Introduction to Plumber

Introduction to Plumber

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Introduction to Plumber

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- [Instructor] For your data analysis to be useful, you have to distribute it so other people can use it. Now, you could do that in a printed page, or you could do it in a PDF, or you could do it on the web using one of two methods. One of those is called Shiny. The other one, which is what we're going to talk about here, is called Plumber. Plumber allows you to create an API from your existing R code. We're going to spend a couple of weeks talking about how to implement and host this. This week, I'm going to give you an overall introduction of what plumber looks like so you kind of understand the concept and know where we're going. Now, there's a couple of things you should know. First of all, don't confuse this package, P L U M B E R, with another package called P L U M B R. The correct spelling is shown here in line 10. You may have to install Plumber. That's a standard install.packages and this is shown…

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