'IT Support for Research' Workshop: Introduction to Shiny software (Afternoon session)

Shiny is an open software for building interactive web applications that can help you with effective data storytelling. With Shiny, prototyping an application is fast because it is all developed in R. Using Shiny, you can easily build dashboards, host standalone applications on a webpage, or embed them in R Markdown documents.
This workshop introduces Shiny software and its application to build data dashboard.

'IT Support for Research' Workshop: Introduction to Shiny software

(Afternoon session)

Date: 16 Feb (Wed) and 23 Feb (Wed)

Time: 14:30 – 17:00

Target Audience: RPg, TPg and Ug students

Pre-requisite: Basic R programming skill or completed Basic R workshop and Data visualization with R workshop

Medium of Instruction: English

Course Outline:

Lesson 1

• What is Shiny?
• Components of Shiny
• Components and features of shinydashboard
• Differences between flexdashboard and shinydashboard
• shinydashboard makes use of Shiny to create dashboards
  • Basic dashboard

Lesson 2

• shinydashboard makes use of Shiny to create dashboards
  • Interactive dashboard
• Three ways to deploy a Shiny app into a webpage
  • Shinyapps.io
  • Shiny Server
  • RStudio Connect
• Easy web publishing for R from RStudio
  • RPubs website