Buy Vs Rent Thingamajig

The Buy Vs Rent Thingamajig is a web-based application that helps users understand whether it would be better long term renting or buying a house with a mortgage. The application is built with R Shiny and deployed using shinylive. Check out the live application at https://shiny.thecoatlessprofessor.com/buy-vs-rent/

With the shiny app, you can:

• Explore the financial implications of renting vs buying a home
• Visualize costs over time with interactive plots
• Compare different scenarios based on user inputs

Deployment

This application is deployed using shinylive, allowing it to run directly in the browser without requiring an R server. Shinylive converts the R code to WebAssembly, making it possible to run R applications entirely client-side.

Local Development Environment

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/coatless-shiny/buy-vs-rent.git

2. Open the buy-vs-rent.Rproj

3. Install required R packages:

install.packages(c("shiny", "bslib", "dplyr", "DT", "plotly"))

4. Run the application:

shiny::runApp()

5. Check if the application can be converted to {shinylive}:

shinylive::export(".", "_site")

Acknowledgments

• Built using the R Shiny framework
• Uses the bslib package for Bootstrap 5 theming
• Deployed using shinylive for browser-based execution