Chapter 6. Advanced Applications II – Using JavaScript Libraries in Shiny Applications
In this chapter, we're going to take a look at user-contributed packages, which allow you to easily use JavaScript plotting libraries in your Shiny applications. It is, of course, possible to use JavaScript and its libraries in Shiny by writing all the code yourself, and we covered incorporating JavaScript in an application in Chapter 3, Building Your Own Web Pages with Shiny. You may need to write something very specific in JavaScript, but if you wish to use some of the wonderful graphical libraries in JavaScript, you may find that somebody has done all of the hard work for you and produced an R package, which allows you to produce the graphics straight from ...
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