Creating interactive web applications with shiny

The shiny package helps in building interactive web applications using R. This recipe illustrates the main components of a shiny application through examples.

Getting ready

Download the files for this chapter and store them in your R working directory. The code for this chapter contains files in various subfolders (named DummyApp, SimpleApp, TabApp, ConditionalApp, and SingleFileApp). Copy these folders into your R working directory.

Install and load the shiny package as follows:

> install.packages("shiny")

Restart RStudio after installing shiny.

How to do it...

To create interactive web applications with shiny, follow the steps below:

  1. Get a feel for shiny by examining a dummy application with no functionality. ...

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