R Programming By Example

Setting up a two-column distribution

The layout you choose to use for your application depends on its objectives. In this case, a two-column layout will suffice. To accomplish this, we use the fluidPage() function and assign it to the ui object. This function adjusts content according to the web browser's dimensions:

Inside the fluidPage(), we use the titlePanel() function to provide a title for our application and the sidebarLayout() function to create a two-column layout. This last function requires two other functions to be called inside it to create the corresponding content for each column. These two functions are called sidebarPanel() ...