Explore a dataset using a simple app

Explore a dataset using a simple app

explore_data_old(
  dataset,
  covariates = NULL,
  outcome_var = NULL,
  data_dictionary = NULL
)

Arguments

dataset	a data frame
covariates	Optional. a character vector of column names you want to include in the dataset
outcome_var	a categorical variable that describes an outcome to examine
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.

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)
}