Web Application Development with R Using Shiny - Second Edition

Installing Shiny and running the examples

Shiny can be installed using standard package management functions as described previously (using the GUI or running install.packages("shiny") at the console).

Let's run some of the examples:

> library(shiny)
> runExample("01_hello")

Your web browser should launch and display the following screenshot (note that I clicked on the show below button on the app to better fit the graphic on the page):

The graph shows the frequency of a set of random numbers drawn from a statistical distribution known as the normal distribution, and the slider allows users to select the size of the draw, from 0 to 1000. You will ...