Introduction
Web applications and related interactive visuals are growing in importance nowadays and shiny
certainly is the way to roll. It's not difficult to build web applications and interactive dashboards from your R console using shiny
. Web applications can be enhanced with CSS themes, HTML widgets, and JavaScript actions.
This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the ways of crafting custom web applications and dashboards using shiny
and shinydashboard
. In this chapter, we reinforce a point: how the interactivity figures bred by plotly
go well with shiny
interactivity. Let's begin with the installation and loading.