Strava-flex

1. Description

A flex dashboard to visualize Strava activities. My app is hosted here: https://rafaelschlatter.shinyapps.io/strava-flex/

2. Setup

2.1 Register app with Strava

To run the dasboard with your Strava data you need to register and API application with Strava.

To do so, follow the instructions here (step 1 and 2):
https://medium.com/@annthurium/getting-started-with-the-strava-api-a-tutorial-f3909496cd2d

2.2 Create keys.json file

Create a json file with the below structure, and save it in the same directory as the index.Rmd file (integer values in the goals section do not require quotation marks). Name the file keys.json. The dashboard will pick up these values when you run it.

{
  "strava": {
    "app_name": "YOUR-APP-NAME",
    "client_id": "YOUR-CLIENT-ID",
    "client_secret": "YOUR-CLIENT-SECRET",
    "access_token": "YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN"
  },
  "goals": {
    "yearly_km": YOUR-YEARLY-KM-GOAL,
    "monthly_km": YOUR-MONTHLY-KM-GOAL,
    "weekly_min": YOUR-MIN-GOAL
  },
  "athlete": {
    "birthdate": "YYYY-MM-DD"
  }
}

3. Usage

2.3 Run the dashboard locally

All dependencies are handled in the install_packages.R file. Set your working directory to the folder that contains index.Rmd an run these commands:

setwd("your/path/strava-flex")
rmarkdown::run()

A browser window opens and you will be automatically authenticated with Strava, the dashboard appears in a new window.

2.4 Deploy to shinyapps.io

Create a shinyapps.io account and follow the instructions here: https://docs.rstudio.com/shinyapps.io/getting-started.html#deploying-applications. Note: Any call to install_packages() will cause the deployment to fail. The shiny server will installs all packages referenced in a library() call. Then deploy the app with this command (use forceUpdate if you want to overwrite an existing app):

rsconnect::setAccountInfo(
  name=<your-account-name>,
  token=<your-token>,
  secret=<your-secret>
)
rsconnect::deployApp(forceUpdate = TRUE)