🎡 Shiny Spinner (Wheel of Fortune)

A dynamic, interactive "Wheel of Fortune" application built with R Shiny. Originally conceived as a team-building ice-breaker, this project demonstrates how to create game-like experiences by bridging R's data visualization with web-native interactivity.

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✨ Key Features & Technical "Hacks"

• Event-Driven Plot Interaction: Instead of a standard button, the "Spin" trigger is a centered label within the plot itself, utilizing plot_click coordinates to trigger reactive events.
• State-Based Highlighting: To overcome static plot limitations, the app uses a ggplot2 donut chart that programmatically highlights the "winning" slice to simulate a selection.
• JS Interop: Leverages the shinyjs package to bridge R and JavaScript, triggering confetti.js animations and custom audio (applause) upon a successful spin.
• Persistent Session History: Tracks results and total spin counts across a single session using reactiveValues.

🛠️ Technical Stack

• R Framework: shiny, shinyjs
• Data Vis: ggplot2
• Assets: Custom JavaScript (confetti.js), CSS, and HTML5 audio tags.

🚀 Getting Started

To run this application locally, ensure you have R installed and run the following in your console:

# Install dependencies
install.packages(c("shiny", "ggplot2", "shinyjs"))

# Run the app directly from GitHub
shiny::runGitHub("shiny_spinner", "CodingTigerTang")