01 - Setup and Introduction to Shiny

R Workshops
Fall 2014

It's So Shiny!

Picture of Sample Applet

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 tonight'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")

Open up the file 01-Setup.R on the website and run the first code chunk to get setup for this workshop. You should have the packages shiny, ggplot2, lubridate, and plyr loaded.

A Simple Example

library(shiny)
runApp("shinyApps/01_Hello")