Getting started with shiny

Fork this repo and download the slides from here.

Make sure you have shiny installed! Run:

install.packages("shiny")

Agenda

What is shiny?

Shiny is a package that lets you make interactive web apps using R. Use shiny to make interactive data visualizations. For some examples, look at the RStudio shiny gallery.

Making a shiny app

Click File > New File > Shiny Web App.... It's that easy! This creates a fully functional shiny app that you can start to customize.

Dissecting this example

Now we'll use the slides from RStudio to talk about exactly what's going on in this minimal app and what kind of changes it's possible to make.

Digression: HTML Widgets

Use HTML Widgets to add impressive interactive visualizations to shiny apps (or R Markdown documents). Some of my favorites:

• Leaflet
• DT
• NDTV

Customizing our app!

This is where the fun starts. Make your own interactive app using the data set in the demo-app folder.

Sharing our apps (if there's time)

Publish apps to shinyapps.io