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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


This chapter has put quite a heap of tools in your Shiny toolbox. You learned how to use custom HTML straight from a minimal ui.R UI setup and how to build the whole thing from scratch using HTML and CSS. You also looked at some data management and cleaning in R and some examples of Shiny applications using JavaScript and jQuery. Hopefully, by now, you should have made your own application, whether in pure Shiny or with your own HTML markup, and perhaps experimented with JavaScript or jQuery.

In the next chapter, you are going to learn more about higher control over Shiny applications, including controlling reactivity, scoping and passing variables, and a variety of input/output functions.