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Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny

By : Chris Beeley
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Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny

By: Chris Beeley

Overview of this book

Although vanilla Shiny applications look attractive with some layout flexibility, you may still want to have more control over how the interface is laid out to produce a dashboard. Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny helps you incorporate this in your applications. The book starts by guiding you in producing an application based on the diamonds dataset included in the ggplot2 package. You’ll create a single application, but the interface will be reskinned and rebuilt throughout using different methods to illustrate their uses and functions using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You will also learn to develop an application that creates documents and reports using R Markdown. Furthermore, the book demonstrates the use of HTML templates and the Bootstrap framework. Moving along, you will learn how to produce dashboards using the Shiny command and dashboard package. Finally, you will learn how to lay out applications using a wide range of built-in functions. By the end of the book, you will have an understanding of the principles that underpin layout in Shiny applications, including sections of HTML added to a vanilla Shiny application, HTML interfaces written from scratch, dashboards, navigation bars, and interfaces.

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Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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HTML and Shiny
HTML and Shiny
Shiny functions to produce HTML
Creating a UI using HTML
Using CSS
Dynamic downloadable reports in Shiny
Using HTML templates
Summary
2
Layout Functions in Shiny
Layout Functions in Shiny
Bootstrap framework
Adding themes to Bootstrap
Producing layout in rows and columns
Navigation bar and the navigation list based layout
Summary of layout functions
Conditional UI
Summary
3
Dashboards
Dashboards
Building your first dashboard
Laying out a dashboard
Adding icons to your dashboards
Adding notifications, messages, and tasks
Info boxes and value boxes
Adding Google Charts to your dashboard
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Bootstrap framework

In this section, we will learn about Bootstrap and its framework as well as its usage and the concepts that it brings to web design in the Shiny applications. We will also see how to add a theme to a Bootstrap setup.

Bootstrap is an open source toolkit that makes use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It is of particular interest to web developers because it enables them to make responsive websites that can seamlessly scale up or down depending on the screen it's viewed on, including PC monitors, tablets, and even mobile phones.

Shiny was built on Bootstrap version 3. However, Bootstrap version 4 is available with minor changes. The main content that attracts Shiny developers about Bootstrap is the grid system.

The grid system is a way of organizing content in a sample format, and is initially done by organizing rows and then by columns. Familiarity with...

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