Developing Interactive Websites with R and Shiny (Fall 2017)
This repository contains the workshop materials for the Data and Visualization Services Workshop on Developing Interactive Websites with R and Shiny. The course description and excersises follow.
Description
Learn how to leverage your knowledge of R (and RMarkdown) to create compelling, interactive website and interactive documents using the Shiny web application framework. Shiny makes it easy to transition from desktop based analysis and visualizations to interactive websites without (necessarily) having to learn HTML, CSS, and javascript. This workshop provides an overview of the shiny framework along with examples and exercises designed to build confidence in developing shiny based websites.
Prerequisites and Requirements
Workshop attendees should have some experience with R and R syntax to get the maximum benefit from this workshop. The Introduction to R Workshop [Video] [Course content] should be sufficient to meet this requirement.
This workshop will use the Rstudio development environment and elements of the tidyverse.
Please let the instructor know in advance if you have concerns about prerequisites or the development environment/tools.
Exercises
Our exercises for the workshop are based on the built-in shiny example (time between eruptions of Old Faithful geyser). While we will look at more complex examples in the workshop, the built-in example is helpful in that it is concise and illustrates many of the core concepts in shiny.
Resources
- Fall 2017 Shiny Workshop Lecture Notes - Shiny: Developing for the Web with R
- Dean Attali's Building Shiny Apps - An Interactive Tutorial
- Shiny Developers Website