hd_app: Launch the highdir Shiny GUI

In highdir: Unified Data Visualization Framework for Dynamic and Static Graphics

Launch the highdir Shiny GUI

Description

Opens an interactive browser-based application for building figures with highcharter or ggplot2 without writing R code.

Usage

hd_app(return.app = FALSE)

Arguments

return.app

Logical. When deploying to server like Shiny.io to return the app object instead of launching it.

Details

The UI (inst/app/ui.R), server (inst/app/server.R) and shared setup (inst/app/global.R) live in ⁠inst/app/⁠ so the folder can be deployed independently to Shiny Server or shinyapps.io.

Value

Launches a Shiny app; does not return a value.

Features

• Upload datasets in any format supported by rio (CSV, XLSX, SPSS, Stata, RDS, …).

• Choose geometry (column, line, scatter, arearange, pie), backend, axis variables, and group column.

• Set title, subtitle, caption, colour palette, and HC theme.

• Toggle JS hover band per figure.

• Render on demand with the Draw button.

• Download as HTML / JSON / PNG (highcharter) or PNG / SVG (ggplot2).

• Copy the equivalent hd_make() call from the R code tab.

See Also

hd_make(), hd_spec(), hd_opts(), hd_save()

highdir documentation built on July 31, 2026, 5:06 p.m.