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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

Summary


In this chapter, we installed R and explored the different options for GUIs and IDEs, and looked at some examples of the power of R. We saw how R makes it easy to manage and reformat data and produce beautiful plots with a few lines of code. You also learned a little about the coding conventions and data structures of R. We saw how to format a dataset and produce an interactive plot in a document quickly and easily. Finally, we installed Shiny, ran the examples included in the package, and got introduced to a couple of basic concepts within Shiny.

In the next chapter, we will go on to build our own Shiny application using the default UI.