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Introduction to Shiny app in R

Welcome to Building Shiny Apps (in R)

Shiny apps are web apps that present data and respond to user input. Therefore, they are a great to share data at a more finalized stage.

The package Shiny is maintained by posit and you can see a great example of a Shiny app on their site https://shiny.posit.co/ .

Pre-requisites

Familiarity with R and RStudio.

Participants are expected to have installed the latest versions of R and RStudio on their computers before the workshop: Install R from https://cran.rstudio.com/ Install RStudio from https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download .

Learning objectives

  1. Understand what Shiny apps are useful for.

  2. Understand the structure of a Shiny app.

  3. Build a Shiny app.