Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series) - Softcover

Granjon, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367643650 ISBN 13: 9780367643652

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2022

Synopsis

Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny provides the reader with necessary knowledge to develop beautiful and highly interactive user interfaces. It gives the minimum requirements in HTML/JavaScript and CSS to be able to extend already existing Shiny layouts or develop new templates from scratch. Suitable for anyone with some experience of Shiny, package development and software engineering best practices, this book is an ideal guide for graduates and professionals who wish to bring their app design to the next level.

Key Features:

• Provides a survival kit in web development to seamlessly get started with HTML/CSS/JavaScript
• Leverage CSS and Sass and higher-level tools like {bslib} to substantially enhance the design of your app in no time
• A comprehensive guide to the {htmltools} package to seamlessly customize existing layouts
• Describes in detail how Shiny inputs work and how R and JavaScript communicate
• Details all the necessary steps to create a production-grade custom template from scratch: packaging, shiny tags creation, validating and testing R components and JavaScript
• Expose common web development debugging technics
• Provides a list of existing templates, resources to get started and to explore

About this title

About the Author

David Granjon holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Université de Lausanne. He is the founder and maintainer of the open source RinteRface organisation (https://rinterface.com) where he develops Shiny extensions ({bs4Dash}, {shinyMobile}, {shinydashboardplus}, …) and deliver novel advanced Shiny workshops in worldwide R conferences like useR or R in Pharma. David works as a full-fulltime Senior Data Science Expert at Novartis where he provides his expertise to help associates to design outstanding user interfaces for clinical trials.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367643650
• ISBN 13: 9780367643652
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 510