Mastering RStudio – Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R

Chapter 5. Interactive Documents with R Markdown

This chapter covers:

• The two main ways to create interactive R Markdown documents
• Creating R Markdown and Shiny documents and presentations
• Using the ggvis package with R Markdown
• Embedding different types of interactive charts in documents
• Deploying interactive R Markdown documents

Creating interactive documents with R Markdown

In Chapter 2, Communicating Your Work with R Markdown, we learned how to structure and create R Markdown documents and presentations in RStudio. But all previous R Markdown formats were purely static. In this chapter, we want to focus on the opportunities to create interactive documents with R Markdown and RStudio. This is, of course, particularly interesting for the readers of ...