OPTIONAL: Interactive Data Dashboard With RShiny

In this activity, we explore interactive data dashboard building with the package shiny. Follow the official shiny tutorial that takes about 2.5 hours to complete: https://shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial/

  1. Introduction

    • Install the package:

      install.packages("shiny")
library(shiny)

    • Shiny apps are contained in a single script app.R which has three components:

      • A user interface (ui) that contains the layout of the Shiny dashboard
      • A server (server) that contains the code to manipulate data and create graphs
      • A function to combine these two previous components

      shiny app

      The Shiny package contains a few examples which display both the dashboards and the app.R scripts to create them. In practice, we don’t need to display the actual script as a part of the dashboard. Let’s give each of these a try. Exit each Shiny app by closing its window or hitting Escape on the keyboard.

      runExample("01_hello")
runExample("02_text")

    • Check out other Shiny creations: https://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/