Interactive web apps with R and Shiny

Lecture 27

Dr. Colin Rundel

Duke University
STA 199 - Summer 2023

2023-12-07

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Shiny

Shiny

Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. You can host standalone apps on a webpage or embed them in R Markdown documents or build dashboards. You can also extend your Shiny apps with CSS themes, htmlwidgets, and JavaScript actions.

Shiny App

Server

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Client / Browser

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Anatomy of an App

library(shiny)

shinyApp(
  ui = list(),
  
  server = function(input, output, session) {
  
  }
)

Sidebar layout

From Mastering Shiny

Multi-row layout

From Mastering Shiny

Shiny Widgets Gallery

https://shiny.posit.co/r/gallery/widgets/widget-gallery/

A brief widget tour

rundel.shinyapps.io/widgets/

Live demo

Let’s make a weather app!

Go to https://github.com/sta199-f23-2/shiny-demo to follow along.