This R application provides a Discord slash command to let users calculate percentiles for children's growth using the World Health Organization's growth standards.
It relies heavily on beakr (for creating an R-based web application),
UDUNITS (for flexibility in units of measurement) and anthro (for
making the WHO standards easy to use).
Because I'm in a Discord group with a bunch of other parents of young children.
The anthro package is really nice, promoted by WHO itself and written in R.
So if I wanted to use it in a bot, I'd either need to shell out to an R script
from my non-R application (with considerable resulting overhead) or simply
build the whole thing in R.
You can build a Docker image from this repo, or you can refer to the
Dockerfile for some rough guidance on what dependencies you'd need to install
outside of a containerized environment. Either way, /run.R will start the
server.
You'll need three pieces of information from your Discord application, all of which can be provided through environment variables:
DISCORD_CLIENT_IDDISCORD_CLIENT_SECRETDISCORD_PUBLIC_KEY