It’s So Shiny!

What is shiny?

Shiny is an R package that allows you to easily create interactive web applets using R.

• Produced by RStudio
• Code can be entirely within R (or customize with HTML/JavaScript)
• Take a look at RStudio’s showcase of Shiny applets

Shiny Documentation and Help

• RStudio Tutorial
  Much of today’s material is motivated by this tutorial
• Shiny Setup, Showcase, and Server setup
  Useful if you want to use shiny on your own webserver
• Shiny Github Page
  See the latest updates
• Shiny Mailing List
  Check the tutorial first, then search the mailing list.

Installing Shiny

install.packages("shiny")

A Simple Example

If your working directory is set appropriately, run the following code:

library(shiny)
runApp("../code/01_Hello")