Using Chartkick instead of R?

[gedankenstuecke]

Audy recommended Chartkick on Gitter to avoid having R as an additional dependency. Could be worthwhile to do it?

[philippbayer]

We have some current JavaScript libraries loaded for the chartpies, we could replace everything with chartkick?

That would be much easier than having a second R-VM

[gedankenstuecke]

Currently we also have the Fitbit-data displayed using JS, which iirc is google charts, could replace that at the same time then.

[philippbayer]

Yes, unifying all plotting using one gem/JS-library would certainly increase loading times.. we could even get rid of jquery? I think that one just exists for the plotting

[gedankenstuecke]

Not sure whether we use jquery in other places for bootstrap in general maybe? But yeah, would be a good idea in any case. 👍