Run the modularized flexdashboard

explore_data(dataset, data_dictionary = NULL, outcome_var = NULL)

Arguments

dataset
  • a data frame

data_dictionary
  • Optional. A data.frame describing covariates. This is passed on to DT:data.table() so it can be easily searched. There is no required format, but the example uses two columns: VariableName and Description.

explore_data gives you a simple shiny app to explore data, The app is tailored to the covariate types of the data.frame/data.table that you pass to it.

Each menu item covers a different part of exploratory data analysis with simple visualizations for discussion.

The tabs are automatically updated with variables depending on the variable types.

outcome_var
  • a categorical variable that describes an outcome to examine

Value

A Shiny App object that can either be run in the console or on an external shiny server such as shinyapps.io. For building the actual app.R, see build_shiny_app

Examples

library(ggplot2) data(diamonds) if(interactive()){ burro::explore_data(diamonds, outcome_var="cut") } # example with data dictionary # look at NHANES data (you need to have NHANES package installed) library(NHANES) data(NHANES) if(interactive()){ #this data dictionary is provided since NHANES doesn't have one data_dict <- read.csv(system.file("nhanes/data_dictionary.csv", package="burro")) burro::explore_data(NHANES[1:10,], data_dictionary=data_dict) } data(mtcars) mtcars$cyl <- factor(mtcars$cyl) mtcars$am <- factor(mtcars$am) mtcars$gear <- factor(mtcars$gear) if(interactive()){ burro::explore_data(mtcars) }