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Create value box

Let's create a value box to show average trip duration for bike share.

This exercise is part of the course

Building Dashboards with flexdashboard

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Exercise instructions

  • In the Median Trip Length chart, add a value box to display median_min (median trip section).
  • Set the caption to describe the value as "Median Trip Duration (Minutes)".
  • Add an icon of a clock using "fa-clock-o" from the Font Awesome library.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

{"my_document.Rmd":"---\ntitle: \"Bike Shares Daily\"\noutput: \n  flexdashboard::flex_dashboard:\n    orientation: columns\n    vertical_layout: fill\n---\n\n```{r setup, include=FALSE}\nlibrary(flexdashboard)\nlibrary(readr)\nlibrary(tidyverse)\nlibrary(lubridate)\n\ntrips_df <- read_csv('https://assets.datacamp.com/production/course_6355/datasets/sanfran_bikeshare_joined_oneday.csv')\n```\n\nColumn {data-width=650}\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n### Origins\n\n\nColumn {data-width=350}\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n### Median Trip Length\n\n```{r}\n\nmedian_min <- median(trips_df$duration_sec / 60) %>% round(digits = 1)\n\n___(___,\n    caption = \"___\",\n    icon = \"___\")\n```\n\n### % Short Trips\n\n\n### Trips by Start Time\n\n\n"}
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