RLumShiny Release 0.2.4

One of the goals of the REPLAY project is to facilitate interfacing with the Luminescence package. This is a rather ambitious goal, but luckily there is already something available to make the use of Luminescence more direct and approachable.

The RLumShiny package integrates a bunch of Luminescence functions into a web-based app built on top of the shiny framework. This allows the users to work interactively with their data, letting them explore the available options and see how they affect the plots and results. This provides an easy entry point to discover what the package provides while performing an analysis of interest, or perhaps just playing around with sample data.

A nice feature of RLumShiny is that once an analysis has been performed, the corresponding R code can be visualised and saved locally. This makes the analyses reproducible and much faster if a batch of similar analyses need to be performed.

The work we have been carrying out on the Luminescence package had however made RLumShiny unusable, as Luminescence is now much stricter in validating its inputs. Besides that, we realised that also changes that had occurred to the shiny package had broken some functionality.

Therefore, we took some time to bring the package up to date, and the new RLumShiny 0.2.4 release is now fully compatible with Luminescence 1.0.1.

While this is essentially a maintenance release, we expect to have another release relatively soon, as we add a few more apps to cover additional Luminescence functions. The future for RLumShiny is indeed quite bright!