In the first edition of this book, which was based on Shiny 0.6, we described only two types of application. First, a fairly simple Bootstrap-themed interface with input widgets down the left and output (a single page or a tabbed output window) on the right. The second type consisted of custom-built web pages with their own HTML and CSS files. Shiny has developed quite a bit since then, and there are actually many types of Shiny application and many ways of building them. These are as follows:
- Interactive markdown documents with Shiny widgets embedded
- Shiny applications (default CSS, written entirely in R)
- Web pages (for example, custom CSS, HTML, and JavaScript)
- Shiny gadgets
- Flex dashboards
In this chapter, ...
