Interactive Plotting with Shiny Apps
- Authors: Erica Acton
- Lesson topic: Interactive Plotting with Shiny Apps
- Lesson content URL: https://github.com/UofTCoders/studyGroup/tree/gh-pages/lessons/r/shiny_2019
- Lesson video stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp3zMKq_G-0
Introduction
Shiny is an R package to make interactive web applications for exploring your data.
For this lesson, please install shiny, tidyverse, gapminder,
shinydashboard:
install.packages(c("shiny", "tidyverse", "gapminder", "shinydashboard"))
You should be able to open the provided app.R in RStudio and tell it to start
the application using the “Run App” button. See the video stream for a
graphical explanation of this procedure.
You may also run the application from the command-line:
# Use the path to the directory containing app.R (do not include app.R below):
$ R -e "shiny::runApp('/path/to/app.R')"
Overview
Our Shiny app will have a layout that will look approximately like this:
There will be three different “views” with different plots and options to change how they look:
