Have you ever wanted to make your Shiny tables interactive, more functional and look better? The DT package, which stands for “DataTables”, provides an R interface to the JavaScript library “DataTables”. It allows creating high standard tables by implementing the functionalities and design features that are available through the “DataTables” library. Even though the DT […]
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Step Up Your Dashboard With Shinydashboard – Part 2: Exercises
The shinydashboard provides a well-designed dashboard theme for Shiny apps and allows for an easy assembly of a dashboard from a couple of basic building blocks. The package is widely used in commercial environments as well due to its neat features for building convenient and robust layouts. This exercise set will help you practice all […]
Step Up Your Dashboard With Shinydashboard – Part 1: Exercises
The shinydashboard package provides a well-designed dashboard theme for Shiny apps and allows for an easy assembly of a dashboard from a couple of basic building blocks. The package is widely used in commercial environments as well, due to its neat features for building convenient and robust layouts. This exercise set will help you practice […]
Building Shiny App exercises part 10
SHINY DASHBOARD STRUCTURE & APPEARANCE Finally we reached in the final part of our series. At this part we will see how to improve the structure and the appearance of our dashboard even more, according to our preferences and of course make it more attractive to the user. Last but not least we will see […]
Building Shiny App Exercises (part-9)
Shiny Dashboard Overview In this part we will “dig deeper” to discover the amazing capabilities that a Shiny Dasboard provides. Read the examples below to understand the logic of what we are going to do and then test yous skills with the exercise set we prepared for you. Lets begin! Answers to the exercises are […]
Building Shiny App Exercises (part-8)
Transform your App into Dashboard Now that we covered the basic staff that you need to know in order to build your App it is time to enhance its appearance and its functionality. The interface is very important fot the user as it must not only be friendly but also easy to use. At this […]
Building Shiny App exercises part 7
Connect widgets & plots In the seventh part of our journey we are ready to connect more of the widgets we created before with our k-means plot in order to totally control its output. Of cousre we will also reform the plot itself properly in order to make it a real k-means plot. Read the […]
Building Shiny App exercises part 6
RENDER FUNCTIONS In the sixth part of our series we will talk about the renderPlot and the renderUI function and then we will be ready to create our first visualization. (Find part 1-5 here). We are going to create a simple interactive scatterplot that will help us see the clusters that are created when we […]
Building Shiny App Exercises (part 5)
RENDER FUNCTIONS In the fourth part of our series we just “scratched the surface” of reactivity by analyzing some of the properties of the renderTable function. Now it is time to get deeper and learn how to use the rest of the render functions that shiny provides. As you were told in part 4 these […]
Building Shiny App exercises part 4
APPLICATION LAYOUT & REACTIVITY The fourth part of our series is “separated” into two “sub-parts”. In the first one we will start building the skeleton of our application by using tabsetPanel. This is how we will separate the sections of our app and also organize its structure better. In the second part you will learn […]