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

By : Chris Beeley
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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

Sharing with the R community


Sharing with the R community is a little easier than with a general audience for two reasons:

  • They can run the Shiny package within R and, therefore, use the Shiny functions designed to help distribute Shiny packages

  • They are almost guaranteed to be reasonably knowledgeable about some of the processes that help you distribute an application, for example, unzipping directories

There are a few ways of sharing with R users running the Shiny package within R summarized in the following sections.

Sharing over GitHub

By far, the easiest way of sharing your creations with fellow R users is over GitHub (github.com). Of course, other R users can also use all the other methods in this chapter, but this is probably the most frictionless method (short of hosting the application) for both you and the end user.

An introduction to Git

You will no doubt have heard of Git (git-scm.com—the version control system that has collaborative sharing features at GitHub) even if you have never...