Interactive Dashboards & Web Apps using R & Shiny

Date:

30/06/2021 - 01/07/2021

Organised by:

Royal Statistical Society

Presenter:

Charlie Hadley

Level:

Intermediate (some prior knowledge)

Contact:

training@rss.org.uk

Venue: Online

Description:

This course will introduce how to create interactive dashboards and web applications using R and Shiny.

The first day will focus on the core components of a Shiny app; inputs, outputs and how to send data between the client and server. It will also cover how to design responsive webs applications that seamlessly work on mobile devices. By the end of the day you'll be able to design and deploy a Shiny app from your local machine to shinyapps.io.

The second day of the course will cover the following advanced topics:

Using reactive expressions to control when and where a Shiny app updates
Designing data-driven controls through the use of reactive expressions.
Embedding interactive charts/maps/tables using the following htmlwidget libraries; leaflet, highcharter and DT.
Allow users to download files/images from a Shiny app
Advice and guidance on structuring large/complex Shiny apps

Learning Outcomes

Confidently design user interfaces in Shiny with appropriately selected controls/inputs
Understand reactivity to effectively update outputs based on specific inputs
Design responsive Shiny apps that work on both desktop and mobile devices
Confidently embed htmlwidgets into Shiny apps and extract user interactions (click/touch)
Effectively structure your code in Shiny apps to simplify growing your app with additional content.

Topics Covered

R, Data Visualisation, Shiny, Data Presentation and Exploratory Data Analysis

Knowledge Assumed

Familiarity with the R language is required as a number of fairly complicated concepts will be introduced in this course: