Analyze, communicate, and design your own sophisticated and interactive web applications using the R (v 3.4) Shiny (1.1.0) package Key Features Explore the power of R Shiny to make interactive web applications easily Create engaging user interfaces using elements such as HTML5 shiny tags and Ttabsets Build and deploy your interactive Shiny web application using shinyapps.io Book DescriptionWeb Application Development with R Using Shiny helps you become familiar with the complete R Shiny package. The book starts with a quick overview of R and its fundamentals, followed by an exploration of the fundamentals of Shiny and some of the things that it can help you do. You'll learn about the wide range of widgets and functions within Shiny and how they fit together to make an attractive and easy to use application. Once you have understood the basics, you'll move on to studying more advanced UI features, including how to style apps in detail using the Bootstrap framework or and Shiny's inbuilt layout functions. You'll learn about enhancing Shiny with JavaScript, ranging from adding simple interactivity with JavaScript right through to using JavaScript to enhance the reactivity between your app and the UI. You'll learn more advanced Shiny features of Shiny, such as uploading and downloading data and reports, as well as how to interact with tables and link reactive outputs. Lastly, you'll learn how to deploy Shiny applications over the internet, as well as and how to handle storage and data persistence within Shiny applications, including the use of relational databases. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to create responsive, interactive web applications using the complete R (v 3.4) Shiny (1.1.0) suite. What you will learn Harness the power of JavaScript to customize your applications Build dashboards with predefined UI and layouts Engage your users and build better analytics using interactive plots Learn advanced code patterns to make your applications easy to write and maintain. Develop a full understanding of Shiny's UI functions to give you the power to build a wide variety of attractive applications. Store data and interact with databases with Shiny. Learn how to share your Shiny applications Understand reactivity at the conceptual level to build more efficient and robust apps Who this book is forWeb Application Development with R Using Shiny is for you if you are interested in creating compelling web applications and interactive data visualization over the web using Shiny. Programming experience with R is required.

Progressively explore UI development with Shiny via practical examples Key Features Write a Shiny interface in pure HTML Explore powerful layout functions to make attractive dashboards and other intuitive interfaces Get to grips with Bootstrap and leverage it in your Shiny applications Book DescriptionAlthough vanilla Shiny applications look attractive with some layout flexibility, you may still want to have more control over how the interface is laid out to produce a dashboard. Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny helps you incorporate this in your applications. The book starts by guiding you in producing an application based on the diamonds dataset included in the ggplot2 package. You'll create a single application, but the interface will be reskinned and rebuilt throughout using different methods to illustrate their uses and functions using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You will also learn to develop an application that creates documents and reports using R Markdown. Furthermore, the book demonstrates the use of HTML templates and the Bootstrap framework. Moving along, you will learn how to produce dashboards using the Shiny command and dashboard package. Finally, you will learn how to lay out applications using a wide range of built-in functions. By the end of the book, you will have an understanding of the principles that underpin layout in Shiny applications, including sections of HTML added to a vanilla Shiny application, HTML interfaces written from scratch, dashboards, navigation bars, and interfaces. What you will learn Add HTML to a Shiny application and write its interfaces from scratch in HTML Use built-in Shiny functions to produce attractive and flexible layouts Produce dashboards, adding icons and notifications Explore Bootstrap themes to lay out your applications Get insights into UI development with hands-on examples Use R Markdown to create and download reports Who this book is forIf you have some experience writing Shiny applications and want to use HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap to make custom interfaces, then this book is for you.

Integrate the power of R with the simplicity of Shiny to deliver cutting-edge analytics over the Web About This Book * Use Shiny's built-in functions to produce engaging user interfaces, and integrate them into your own web pages * Implement powerful user-contributed packages to access graphics from the web, make your own dashboards, use interactive maps, and more * Extend Shiny using JavaScript and jQuery with minimal coding using this handy, step-by-step guide Who This Book Is For This book is for anybody who wants to produce interactive data summaries over the web, whether you want to share them with a few colleagues or the whole world. No previous experience with R, Shiny, HTML, or CSS is required to begin using this book, although you should possess some previous experience with programming in a different language. What You Will Learn * Build interactive applications using Shiny's built-in widgets * Use the built-in layout functions in Shiny to produce user-friendly applications * Integrate Shiny applications with web pages and customize them using HTML and CSS * Harness the power of JavaScript and jQuery to customize your applications * Engage your users and build better analytics using interactive plots * Debug your applications using Shiny's built-in functions * Deliver simple and powerful analytics across your organization using Shiny dashboards * Share your applications with colleagues or over the Internet using cloud services or your own server In Detail R is a highly flexible and powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing data. Most of the applications built using various libraries with R are desktop-based. But what if you want to go on the web? Here comes Shiny to your rescue! Shiny allows you to create interactive web applications using the excellent analytical and graphical capabilities of R. This book will guide you through basic data management and analysis with R through your first Shiny application, and then show you how to integrate Shiny applications with your own web pages. Finally, you will learn how to finely control the inputs and outputs of your application, along with using other packages to build state-of-the-art applications, including dashboards. Style and approach Learn by doing! Each chapter includes code and examples to use and adapt for your own applications. As the chapters progress, the code and examples are built upon until you have all the materials required to build a large, complex, real-world analytics application.