Ted Laderas, PhD: A gRadual intRoduction to Shiny

Ted Laderas; Jessica Minnier; Dar'ya Pozhidayeva; Pierrette Lo

Description

This was a two hour workshop given for OHSU BioData Club on 2021-01-28 introducing the basic concepts of Shiny. It runs about two hours long.

There are videos for each part, along with slides. We use an RStudio.cloud project to try the basic Shiny concepts.

Audience

Intermediate R users and students. Students should be familiar with {ggplot2}, {dplyr}, and how functions work.

Learning Objectives

Learn the basic architecture of Shiny Apps
Learn how server and ui communicate with the input and output objects
Add ggplot2 code to our app and display it with plotOutput and renderOutput
Add a control to control the aesthetics of our ggplot
Make a reactive dataset using reactive expressions and control it with a slider
Use {plotly} to add tooltips to our data
Learn about the Shiny Widget Gallery and how to use it to add controls to your app

Link

Workshop Website

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Laderas, et al. (2021, Jan. 28). Ted Laderas, PhD: A gRadual intRoduction to Shiny. Retrieved from https://laderast.github.io/edu/2021-03-20-a-gradual-introduction-to-shiny/

BibTeX citation

@misc{laderas2021a,
  author = {Laderas, Ted and Minnier, Jessica and Pozhidayeva, Dar'ya and Lo, Pierrette},
  title = {Ted Laderas, PhD: A gRadual intRoduction to Shiny},
  url = {https://laderast.github.io/edu/2021-03-20-a-gradual-introduction-to-shiny/},
  year = {2021}
}