Intro_to_Shiny.Rmd

---
title: "Intro to R Shiny"
subtitle: "UCI Data Science Initiative"
author: "Dustin Pluta"
date: "21 February 2017"
output: 
  xaringan::moon_reader:
    seal: yes
    
    nature:
      highlightStyle: github
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
options(htmltools.dir.version = FALSE)
```

# Topics

1. Interactive Markdown Documents

2. Overview of Shiny Widgets

3. Buliding a Dashboard


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# Some Resources for R

* [shiny Cheat Sheet](http://shiny.rstudio.com/images/shiny-cheatsheet.pdf)

* [`dplyr` Cheat Sheet](https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/data-wrangling-cheatsheet.pdf)

* [R Markdown Cheat Sheet](https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/rmarkdown-cheatsheet.pdf)

* [R Markdown Tutorial](http://www.jacolienvanrij.com/Tutorials/tutorialMarkdown.html)

* [knitr](https://yihui.name/knitr/)

* [Data Carpentry Lessons for R](http://www.datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-lesson/)

* [dplyr Tutorial](http://genomicsclass.github.io/book/pages/dplyr_tutorial.html)

* [Advanced R (by Hadley Wickham)](http://adv-r.had.co.nz/)

* [R for Data Science (by Grolemund and Wickham)](http://r4ds.had.co.nz/)

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# Intro to Shiny

- Shiny is an R Studio package for building interactive Web Apps and can be combined with R Markdown to create a variety of interactive documents

- Shiny allows you to design a UI completely in R

- Shiny apps can be hosted on the web!

    + [shinyappsio](https://www.shinyapps.io/)
    
    + [UCI DSI Shiny Server](shiny.datascience.uci.edu)


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# Interactive Markdown Documents

- [Interactive R Markdown Guide](http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_shiny.html)

- [Shiny Widget Gallery](https://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/widget-gallery.html)

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# Interactive Markdown Documents


- See __Interactive R Markdown Example File__

- Then try __R Markdown Exercise Set 2__

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# Flexdashboard

- First install packages:

    + `shiny`
    
    + `flexdashboard`

- Example 1: [Bi-clustering](https://jjallaire.shinyapps.io/shiny-biclust/)

- Example 2: [Gotta Catch'em All](http://jkunst.com/flexdashboard-highcharter-examples/pokemon/)

- [Flexdashboard Gallery](http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/flexdashboard/examples.html)

- See file __Biclusetring Dashboard__

- Then try things out with __IMDB Dashboard__