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Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny

By : Chris Beeley

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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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HTML and Shiny

Shiny functions to produce HTML

Creating a UI using HTML

Using CSS

Dynamic downloadable reports in Shiny

Using HTML templates

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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

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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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Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the Bootstrap framework and how Shiny makes use of it, and how to build an application layout using rows and columns. We explored the navigation bar, navigation list—based layouts, and also looked at an overview of all of the layout functions. Lastly, we looked at using conditional UI elements and how to control the UI.

In the next chapter, we will be taking a look at dashboards and how to put together our very first dashboard.