THE SHINY APP
Presented by: Lance Cundy
Great Plains R Users Group
November 15, 2013
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
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Graduate student at SDSU
M.S. Mathematics
 Expected graduation date: May 2014
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Fishback Financial Corporation
(First Bank & Trust)
Fellowship Student
 Business Intelligence
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Statographics
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Sports data visualization
www.statographics.com
SHINY APP
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Interactive web application
Data visualization
 Interactive models
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No need to know HTML or JavaScript
 Hosted by RStudio
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RSTUDIO
Software, Education, and Services for the R
Community
 RStudio IDE

User interface
consisting of:
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Editor
 Console
 Plots
 Workspace
 Etc.
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WHAT DOES SHINY DO?
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Users interact with drop down boxes, radio
buttons, sliders, text fields, etc.
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Data can be an input
Output includes plots, tables, summaries
WHAT DOES THE SHINY APP LOOK LIKE?
HOW DO YOU MAKE A SHINY APP?
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Consists of two scripts
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ui.R (user-interface)
Define titles and captions
 Define input (values and labels)
 Define output
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server.R
Dataset
 Generate output
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USER-INTERFACE
SERVER
OUTPUT
HOW DO YOU DEPLOY?
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Locally
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runApp('/Users/ldc_ldc_ldc/Desktop/Shiny')
On the Web
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Self-Hosted Shiny Server
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Linux Server
RStudio-Hosted Shiny Server
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Free Beta Test Account
RSTUDIO SHINY SERVER
RStudio on a browser
 Own URL
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http://spark.rstudio.com/lancecundy/NBA/
ADVANTAGES
Tutorials
 Code on GitHub
 With knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, the
possibilities are endless
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HOW CAN A BUSINESS USE SHINY?
Create App
 User Selects Data/Variables
 Interactive Modeling
 Run Scripts for Distribution
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CHALLENGES
Debugging
 Deploying on own server
 Low flexibility
 Access levels
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FUTURE
Built-in Scheduling
 Different Layouts/Themes
 WordPress Plug-in
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REFERENCES
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http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/