THE SHINY APP

Presented by: Lance Cundy

Great Plains R Users Group

November 15, 2013

PERSONAL BACKGROUND

Graduate student at SDSU M.S. Mathematics Expected graduation date: May 2014

Fishback Financial Corporation (First Bank & Trust)

Fellowship Student Business Intelligence

Statographics Sports data visualization www.statographics.com

SHINY APP

Interactive web application Data visualization Interactive models

No need to know HTML or JavaScript Hosted by RStudio

RSTUDIO

Software, Education, and Services for the R Community

RStudio IDE User interface consisting of:

Editor Console Plots Workspace Etc.

WHAT DOES SHINY DO?

Users interact with drop down boxes, radio buttons, sliders, text fields, etc. Data can be an input

Output includes plots, tables, summaries

WHAT DOES THE SHINY APP LOOK LIKE?

HOW DO YOU MAKE A SHINY APP?

Consists of two scripts ui.R (user-interface)

Define titles and captions Define input (values and labels) Define output

server.R Dataset Generate output

USER-INTERFACE

SERVER

OUTPUT

HOW DO YOU DEPLOY?

Locally runApp('/Users/ldc_ldc_ldc/Desktop/Shiny')

On the Web Self-Hosted Shiny Server

Linux Server RStudio-Hosted Shiny Server

Free Beta Test Account

RSTUDIO SHINY SERVER

RStudio on a browser Own URL

http://spark.rstudio.com/lancecundy/NBA/

ADVANTAGES

Tutorials Code on GitHub With knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, the

possibilities are endless

HOW CAN A BUSINESS USE SHINY?

Create App User Selects Data/Variables Interactive Modeling Run Scripts for Distribution

CHALLENGES

Debugging Deploying on own server Low flexibility Access levels

FUTURE

Built-in Scheduling Different Layouts/Themes WordPress Plug-in

REFERENCES

http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/