Description:
These materials accompany the 1-unit, 2-day, hands-on coding workshop, EDS 430 - Intro to Shiny. This workshop was offered by @samanthacsik (MEDS/NCEAS Data Training Coordinator) in Winter 2023 (January 20 & 27, 2023) through the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, in partnership with the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis.
In this workshop, students learn how to build and deploy Shiny applications. The {shiny} package provides a framework that allows R users to build interactive web applications and dashboards, and has become a popular tool for sharing data analyses and data-derived outputs with broad audiences. In this two-part short course, students learn the fundamentals of reactivity, how to customize an application user interface (UI), best practices and workflows for developing shiny apps, how to deploy their apps online via RStudio’s hosting service, shinyapps.io, and more.
Presentation slides are available here and are meant to be a stand-alone resource for those who were unable to attend the workshop, but would like to follow along/self-learn. The workshop walks through building a number of shiny apps and dashboards -- find complete versions of each in this GitHub repository.
