BMI Calculator

What is a shiny app?

• You are going to interact with a shiny app.
• Shiny is another product by RStudio and it is described by RStudio as “A web application framework for R”.

• BMI Calculator helps you know your BMI and your health condition.
• Simply input your weight in kgs and your height in centimeters, BMI Calculator will compute the BMI for you.
• It will present you not only your BMI, but also your health condition.
• A plot is added so you can see where you are at.

• This part of the code mainly shows you how we do the calculations and conditions.

library(shiny)
BMI<-function(weight,height) {weight/((height*0.01)^2)}
diagnostic_f<-function(weight,height){
  BMI_value<- weight/((height*0.01)^2)
  ifelse(BMI_value<18.5,"Underweight",
         ifelse(BMI_value<25,"Normal Weight",
                ifelse(BMI_value<30,"Overweight","Obesity")))
}

• Sniny app URL: https://emmacourserahwork.shinyapps.io/developing_data_products/
• Github link where you can get the code: https://github.com/Emmachn/developingdataproducts
• Thank you!