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Web Application Development with R Using Shiny Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Chris Beeley
Book Image

Web Application Development with R Using Shiny Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Chris Beeley

Overview of this book

R is a highly flexible and powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing data. Most of the applications built using various libraries with R are desktop-based. But what if you want to go on the web? Here comes Shiny to your rescue! Shiny allows you to create interactive web applications using the excellent analytical and graphical capabilities of R. This book will guide you through basic data management and analysis with R through your first Shiny application, and then show you how to integrate Shiny applications with your own web pages. Finally, you will learn how to finely control the inputs and outputs of your application, along with using other packages to build state-of-the-art applications, including dashboards.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Web Application Development with R Using Shiny Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Version one – sidebar layout


We'll start off slow with the vanilla sidebar layout, just to establish the building blocks of our dashboard. Because we're not doing too much in the way of features or layout in this first application, we'll add a few visual bells and whistles. Some of them will be dropped in later versions of the application just to stop the code and UI from becoming too cluttered, but you can of course write an application yourself with all of the UI elements in if you wish so. All of the code and data for the applications in this chapter is available at chrisbeeley.net/website/.