Launch the SolidAngleR Shiny dashboard

Starts an interactive shinydashboard application that exposes the main functionality of the package: low-dimensional formulas, series methods, decomposition, Monte Carlo, dispatcher diagnostics, and 3D visualisation. Intended as an exploratory tool and a teaching resource.

Usage

shinySolidAngleR(launch.browser = TRUE)

Arguments

launch.browser

Logical. If TRUE (default), opens the running app in the system default browser; if FALSE, the server runs in the current R session and the URL is printed.

Value

NULL, invisibly. The function is called for the side effect of starting the Shiny server.

Details

The dashboard is structured into thematic tabs covering 2D and 3D visualisation modules, circular and intersecting cone explorers, high-dimensional methods (hypergeometric and tridiagonal series), the decomposition route for general cones, Monte Carlo estimation with uncertainty quantification, ecological feasibility domains via the multivariate-normal branch of compute_solid_angle, uniform cone-sampling diagnostics, and a theory tab with the mathematical background.

Required Suggested packages: shiny, shinydashboard, shinyWidgets, ggplot2, DT, plotly. The function checks for them at start-up and stops with an installation hint if any are missing.

References

Chang, W., Cheng, J., Allaire, J. J., Sievert, C., Schloerke, B., Xie, Y., Allen, J., McPherson, J., Dipert, A., & Borges, B. (2024). shiny: Web Application Framework for R. R package version 1.8 or later. https://shiny.posit.co/.

See also

compute_solid_angle, diagnose_cone for the analytical engines exposed in the dashboard; plot_cone_3d, plotIntersectingCones for the embedded 3D visualisations.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
shinySolidAngleR()
} # }