Web Application Development with R Using Shiny - Third Edition - Softcover

Beeley, Chris; Sukhdeve, Shitalkumar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788993128 ISBN 13: 9781788993128

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

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 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
• 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 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.

Table of Contents

1. Beginning with R
2. Shiny first steps
3. Integrating Shiny with HTML
4. Mastering Shiny's UI functions
5. Easy JavaScript and custom JavaScript functions with Shiny
6. Easy dashboards with shiny dashboard
7. Power Shiny
8. Code patterns in Shiny applications
9. Persistent storage and sharing Shiny applications

About this title

About the Author

Chris 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 was the author of the previous edition of this book.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1788993128
• ISBN 13: 9781788993128
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 238