Chapter 9. Creating Applications in R

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating animated plots in R
  • Creating a presentation in R
  • A basic introduction to API and XML
  • Constructing a bar plot using XML in R
  • Creating a very simple shiny app in R

Introduction

This chapter is specifically kept towards the end as you need to have a good understanding of R and its packages to be able to work through it. My aim behind writing this chapter is to introduce users of R to the concept of interactivity and animation, ways to combine plots, develop a good understanding of API and XML technologies, and how they could be used to better enhance our visualizations.

We will learn how to generate powerful and meaningful presentations using the slidify ...

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