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

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• Create engaging user interfaces using elements such as HTML5 shiny tags and Ttabsets

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• Build and deploy your interactive Shiny web application using shinyapps.io

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Book Description

Web 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

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• Build dashboards with predefined UI and layouts

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• Engage your users and build better analytics using interactive plots

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• Learn advanced code patterns to make your applications easy to write and maintain.

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• Develop a full understanding of Shiny's UI functions to give you the power to build a wide variety of attractive applications.

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• Store data and interact with databases with Shiny.

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• Learn how to share your Shiny applications

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• Understand reactivity at the conceptual level to build more efficient and robust apps

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Who this book is for

Web 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.

© 2018 Packt Publishing (E-bok): 9781788998284

Utgivelsesdato

E-bok: 27. september 2018