Chapter 1. Getting Started with R and Shiny!
R is free and open source as well as being the pre-eminent tool for statisticians and data scientists. It has more than 6000 user-contributed packages, which help users with tasks as diverse as chemistry, biology, physics, finance, psychology, and medical science, as well as drawing extremely powerful and flexible statistical graphics.
In recent years, R has become more and more popular, and there are an increasing number of packages for R, which make cleaning, analyzing, and presenting data on the web easy for everybody. The Shiny package, in particular, makes it incredibly easy to deliver interactive data summaries and queries to end users through any modern web browser. You're reading this book because ...
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