Getting Started with Shiny for R

1-day workshop

Description

Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. This workshop will start at the beginning: designing and creating user interfaces, learning and mastering the reactive model that connects your R code to the interface, and deploying apps publicly and privately. We will wrap up with some intermediate-level tools: debugging and modularizing your apps and implementing dynamic user interfaces. In the end, you’ll be a confident Shiny user, able to design interactive apps to achieve your purpose and produce a polished and professional implementation.

Audience

This course is for you if you:

• are comfortable with the basics of R, such as writing functions, indexing vectors and lists, debugging simple errors, and working with data structures like data frames,
• are interested in creating interactive web applications, and
• have no or minimal experience with Shiny for R.

If you have a bit of experience, you’ll see things in a new way. If you don’t, we’ll get you started on the right footing.

Instructor

		Colin Rundel is Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke University where he has been teaching since 2012. His work focuses on teaching statistical computing to both undergraduate and graduate students in both R and Python. He has been teaching and using Shiny since 2015.
		Garrick Aden-Buie is a Software Engineer for Shiny at Posit. He builds tools in R, R Markdown, Shiny to help you do data science with R.