Web Application Development with R Using Shiny - Second Edition

Summary

In this chapter, you saw most of the functionality within Shiny. It's a relatively small but powerful toolbox with which you can build a vast array of useful and intuitive applications with comparatively little effort. In this respect, ggplot2 is rather a good companion for Shiny because it too offers you a fairly limited selection of functions with which knowledgeable users can very quickly build many different graphical outputs.

In this chapter, we looked at fine-tuning the UI using conditionalPanel() and observe() and changing your UI reactively. We also looked at managing slow computations using Shiny's reactivity functions, customizing a user's experience using client data, custom graphics, animation and reports, and uploading and ...