Learning Shiny

Make the most of R's dynamic capabilities and implement web applications with Shiny

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Hernan Resnizky

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|Sep 2025

E-Book €26.99Institutions €125.95

Make the most of R's dynamic capabilities and implement web applications with Shiny

Key Features

Book Description

Make the most of R’s dynamic capabilities and implement web applications with Shiny

About This Book

Present interactive data visualizations in R within the Shiny framework
Construct web dashboards in a simple, intuitive, but fully flexible environment
Apply your skills to create a real-world web application with this step-by-step guide

Who This Book Is For

If you are a data scientist who needs a platform to show your results to a broader audience in an attractive and visual way, or a web developer with no prior experience in R or Shiny, this is the book for you.

What You Will Learn

Comprehend many useful functions, such as lapply and apply, to process data in R
Write and structure different files to create a basic dashboard
Develop graphics in R using popular graphical libraries such as ggplot2 and GoogleVis
Mount a dashboard on a Linux Server
Integrate Shiny with non-R-native visualization, such as D3.js
Design and build a web application

In Detail

R is nowadays one of the most used tools in data science. However, along with Shiny, it is also gaining territory in the web application world, due to its simplicity and flexibility. Shiny is a framework that enables the creation of interactive visualizations written entirely in R and can be displayed in almost any ordinary web browser. It is a package from RStudio, which is an IDE for R.
From the fundamentals of R to the administration of multi-concurrent, fully customized web applications, this book explains how to achieve your desired web application in an easy and gradual way.
You will start by learning about the fundamentals of R, and will move on to looking at simple and practical examples. These examples will enable you to grasp many useful tools that will assist you in solving the usual problems that can be faced when developing data visualizations. You will then walk through the integration of Shiny with R in general and view the different visualization possibilities out there. Finally, you will put your skills to the test and create your first web application!

Style and approach

This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that will allow you to learn and make full use of R and Shiny’s capabilities in a gradual way, together with clear, applied examples.

What you will learn

Comprehend many useful functions, such as lapply and apply, to process data in R Write and structure different files to create a basic dashboard Develop graphics in R using popular graphical libraries such as ggplot2 and GoogleVis Mount a dashboard on a Linux Server Integrate Shiny with non-R-native visualization, such as D3.js Design and build a web application

Who this book is for

What is R? What is Shiny?
First steps to program in R
Basic functions for data processing in R
Shiny structure: Reactivity concepts
Server and UI.R. Global.R.
Explore graphical alternatives with R
Advanced Shiny functions
Shiny and Javascript
Shiny and D3.js
Shiny in Servers. Expose Dashboards
Building a web application

PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-199-0

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2025

Language: English

Pages: 246

Learning Shiny

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Book Description

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