Building interactive web app with shiny
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It is a talk given by Vivian Zhang, CTO of SupStat Inc which is a leading Data Analytic consulting firm based in New York City, Shanghai and Beijing. NYC Open Data meetup are honored to host this event on Mar 24th,2014. You can find more information at www.meetup.com/nyc-open-data and www.nycopendata.com
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Building interactive web app with shiny
- 2. Outline Introduction to shiny Main functions of shiny Advanced features of shiny Share APP with others Case study · · · · · 2/30
- 4. Why build web application R is great, and the Internet is great. Everyone has a browser. Communicate your results dynamically. Create custom analytics tools to explore data. · · · · 4/30
- 5. Introduction to shiny Open Sourced by RStudio November 2012 Not the first to get R in the browser (rApache, Rserve, Rook) Default widgets and settings make it easy to generate apps Don't need to know HTML, CSS and javascript to get started Twitter Bootstrap for default UI - looks good Web sockets for communication between client and server Reactive Programming model Works on Windows, Mac, Linux · · · · · · · · 5/30
- 6. Introduction to shiny Ready to use shiny Install R from CRAN Useful to have Chrome, Firefox, Safari... Rstudio or other texteditor Install Shiny using R command: install.packages("shiny") · · · · 6/30
- 11. server.R : Specifies what R is doing #Defineserverlogicrequiredtogenerateandplotarandomdistribution shinyServer(function(input,output){ #Expressionthatgeneratesaplotofthedistribution.Theexpression #iswrappedinacalltorenderPlottoindicatethat: # # 1)Itis"reactive"andthereforeshouldbeautomatically # re-executedwheninputschange # 2)Itsoutputtypeisaplot # output$distPlot<-renderPlot({ #generateanrnormdistributionandplotit dist<-rnorm(input$obs) hist(dist) }) }) 11/30
- 14. Reactive Programming Similar to a spreadsheet. If you have a cell that is a function of another cell, e.g. "=A1*2", then any time A1 is updated the cell that contains that function is automatically updated. 14/30
- 15. Reactive Programming Similar to a spreadsheet. If you have a cell that is a function of another cell, e.g. "=A1*2", then any time A1 is updated the cell that contains that function is automatically updated. 15/30
- 16. Reactive Programming Similar to a spreadsheet. If you have a cell that is a function of another cell, e.g. "=A1*2", then any time A1 is updated the cell that contains that function is automatically updated. 16/30
- 18. Functions for Input sliderInput: Constructs a slider widget to select a numeric value from a range. selectInput: Create a select list that can be used to choose a single or multiple items from a list of values. numericInput: Create an input control for entry of numeric values checkboxInput: Create a checkbox that can be used to specify logical values. radioButtons: Create a set of radio buttons used to select an item from a list. textInput: Create an input control for entry of unstructured text values · runExample("01_hello")- · runExample("02_text")- · runExample("02_text")- · runExample("04_mpg")- · runExample("06_tabsets")- · runExample("02_text")- 18/30
- 19. Functions for Processing reactive: Wraps a normal expression to create a reactive expression. renderPlot: Renders a reactive plot that is suitable for assigning to an output slot. renderPrint: Makes a reactive version of the given function that captures any printed output. renderTable: Creates a reactive table that is suitable for assigning to an output slot renderText: Makes a reactive version of the given function that also uses cat to turn its result into a single element character vector. · runExample("02_text")- · runExample("01_hello")- · runExample("02_text")- · runExample("02_text")- · runExample("03_reactivity")- 19/30
- 20. Functions for Output plotOutput: Render a renderPlot within an application page. tableOutput: Render a renderTable within an application page. verbatimTextOutput: Render a reactive output variable as verbatim text within an application page. textOutput: Render a reactive output variable as text within an application page. · runExample("01_hello")- · runExample("02_text")- · runExample("02_text")- · runExample("02_text")- 20/30
- 22. Tab Panels Tabsets are created by calling the tabsetPanel function with a list of tabs created by the tabPanel function. Each tab panel is provided a list of output elements which are rendered vertically within the tab. · runExample("06_tabsets")- 22/30
- 23. UI Enhancements We added a helpTextcontrol to provide additional clarifying text alongside our input controls. We added a submitButtoncontrol to indicate that we don’t want a live connection between inputs and outputs. This is especially useful if computing output is computationally expensive. We added h4elements into the output pane. Shiny offers a variety of functions for including HTML elements directly in pagesS. · · · runExample("07_widgets")- 23/30
- 24. Uploading Files File upload controls are created by using the fileInputfunction in your ui.R file. access the uploaded data similarly to other types of input: by referring to input$inputId. The file contents can be accessed by reading the file named by the datapath column · · · runExample("09_upload")- 24/30
- 25. Dynamic UI The conditionalPanelfunction, which is used in ui.R and wraps a set of UI elements that need to be dynamically shown/hidden The renderUIfunction, which is used in server.R in conjunction with the htmlOutput function in ui.R, lets you generate calls to UI functions and make the results appear in a predetermined place in the UI · · runGist("https://gist.github.com/wch/4034323")- 25/30
- 27. Sharing Apps to Run Locally Gist One easy way is to put your code on gist.github.com, a code pasteboard service from GitHub. Both server.R and ui.R must be included in the same gist, and you must use their proper filenames. See https://gist.github.com/3239667 for an example. GitHub repository If your project is stored in a git repository on GitHub, then others can download and run your app directly. An example repository is at https://github.com/rstudio/shiny_example. · · 27/30
- 28. Deploying Over the Web Self-hosted Shiny Server With our Shiny Server software, you can deploy Shiny applications over the web so that users need only a web browser and your application’s URL. You’ll need a Linux server and Shiny Server. RStudio-hosted Shiny Server Want to deploy over the web but prefer not to run your own server? We’re currently beta testing a subscription-based hosting service for Shiny. · · 28/30