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Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny: A practical guide to building effective web applications and dashboards
Progressively explore UI development with Shiny via practical examples
Key FeaturesWrite a Shiny interface in pure HTMLExplore powerful layout functions to make attractive dashboards and other intuitive interfacesGet to grips with Bootstrap and leverage it in your Shiny applicationsBook 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 learnAdd HTML to a Shiny application and write its interfaces from scratch in HTMLUse built-in Shiny functions to produce attractive and flexible layoutsProduce dashboards, adding icons and notificationsExplore Bootstrap themes to lay out your applicationsGet insights into UI development with hands-on examplesUse R Markdown to create and download reportsWho 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.
Table of ContentsHTML and markdownShiny layout functionsDashboards
Key FeaturesWrite a Shiny interface in pure HTMLExplore powerful layout functions to make attractive dashboards and other intuitive interfacesGet to grips with Bootstrap and leverage it in your Shiny applicationsBook 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 learnAdd HTML to a Shiny application and write its interfaces from scratch in HTMLUse built-in Shiny functions to produce attractive and flexible layoutsProduce dashboards, adding icons and notificationsExplore Bootstrap themes to lay out your applicationsGet insights into UI development with hands-on examplesUse R Markdown to create and download reportsWho 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.
Table of ContentsHTML and markdownShiny layout functionsDashboards
78 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2018
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About the author
Chris Beeley
3 booksChris Beeley works for Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust as the lead analyst and programmer for staff and patient experience. He uses a variety of open source tools (PHP/MySQL, Apache, R, Shiny, and Ubuntu) to collect, collate, analyze, and report on patient and staff experience throughout the organization.
He has been a keen user of R and a passionate advocate of open source tools in research and healthcare settings, having completed his PhD. He has made extensive use of R (and Shiny) to automate analysis and report on a new patient feedback website. This was funded by a grant from the NHS Institute for Innovation and made in collaboration with staff, service users, and carers within the Trust, particularly individuals from the Involvement Centre.
He has been a keen user of R and a passionate advocate of open source tools in research and healthcare settings, having completed his PhD. He has made extensive use of R (and Shiny) to automate analysis and report on a new patient feedback website. This was funded by a grant from the NHS Institute for Innovation and made in collaboration with staff, service users, and carers within the Trust, particularly individuals from the Involvement Centre.
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