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Shiny

• R
• An interactive report framework
• An open source package
• Uses "modern web standards" like bootstrap under the hood

Examples

• Winston Chang Activity Dashboard
• Movie explorer

Code example

library(shiny)

shinyAppDir(
  system.file("examples/06_tabsets", 
              package="shiny")
)

Pros & Cons

Pros | Cons --------|-------- Free(mium) | Linux Modern | != LDAP auth (free version) Extensible | Fast pace of change Solid SDLC | Code

How do you build an app?

shinyApp(
    ui      = fluidPage(),
  , server  = function(input,
                       output) {}
  , options = defaultdisplay
)

DEMO

How do you do the infrastructure?

Create an ubuntu VM, run the following commands

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install r-base
• sudo su - -c "R -e \"install.packages('shiny', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')\""
• sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
• wget http://download3.rstudio.org/ubuntu-12.04/x86_64/shiny-server-1.3.0.403-amd64.deb
• sudo gdebi shiny-server-1.3.0.403-amd64.deb
• sudo nano /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf
• sudo restart shiny-server

DEMO

How do you deploy apps?

On-site

1. winSCP
2. git clone

shinyApps.io

1. shinyapps::deployApp()

DEMO

git clone https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-examples

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