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Authoring!!

OOH Session #141…
AI–Assisted
App Build (III)

Open Office Hours
(August 05, 2026)

  • Recap session #140
  • Today’s topic(s):
  • Shared problem-solving






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Recap of Session
#140:

AI–Assisted App Build (II)

  • dev within app.R
    • ’s suggestion
  • 2–layers of capability
  • debugging along the way
  • heavy –lifting within source script

Currently:

  • accepts addresses
    • format not tested
  • locates & zooms
  • no US Census connection
  • Initial fail (app cycling without presenting visual)
    • 2 or 3 correction fails
    • not touched since last week (total time = ~20 minutes)
I would like to build a Quarto dashboard, powered by 
R, that has 3 primary functions. #1 - user types an 
address, #2 - a map displays the address, and #3 -data 
is shown about the address. I do have a US Census 
API Key if we go that route for the address data, but 
I am open to alternatives. Please provide all code 
necessary to execute this dashboard


*Out of several considered options, chose to build via GitHub Copilot from within GitHub

Today…

Bite my shiny metal      !!!

    AI Categorization1


Level Reasoning Depth Context Awareness Speed R/Quarto Support Best For Cost/Privacy
1. Standalone High Project description Medium Excellent (via prompting) Planning & learning Varies (API)
2. IDE-Integrated Medium File + open project High Strong (esp. Copilot) Daily coding Subscription
3. Agentic High Full codebase Medium-High Good (with good prompting) Complex/multi-file work Higher
4. Platform Medium Repo + team Medium Good Review & collab Platform-dependent

& Session Info (August 05, 2026) Rendering:

R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] leaflet_2.2.2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] digest_0.6.39     R6_2.6.1          fastmap_1.2.0     xfun_0.57        
 [5] magrittr_2.0.4    knitr_1.51        htmltools_0.5.9   rmarkdown_2.31   
 [9] cli_3.6.5         jquerylib_0.1.4   compiler_4.5.0    rstudioapi_0.18.0
[13] tools_4.5.0       evaluate_1.0.5    yaml_2.3.12       otel_0.2.0       
[17] htmlwidgets_1.6.4 rlang_1.1.7       jsonlite_2.0.0    crosstalk_1.2.1

Quarto version 1.9.37