A Quick Introduction to R Shiny

Alec Stephenson 14 November 2013

COMPUTATIONAL INFORMATICS

Introduction
Write Simple Web Applications Using (Only) R No Need for HTML or Javascript Great for Communication and Visualization http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/showcase/ http://rstudio.github.io/shiny/tutorial/ Web Application Development Using R With Shiny by Chris Beeley

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Examples Outline
Showcase Examples
Modelling Heights & Weights of Schoolchildren Exploring Diamonds

Tutorial Examples
Hello Shiny: Random Samples Histogram Widgets: Data Tables & Summaries Tabsets: More Random Samples

My Own Examples
Co-authorship Network Fire Danger Maps

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Hello Shiny
ui.R

shinyUI(pageWithSidebar(( headerPanel, sidebarPanel, mainPanel))

server.R shinyServer(function(input, output) {})

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Hello Shiny: ui.R headerPanel("Hello Shiny!") sidebarPanel(sliderInput("obs", "Number of observations:", min = 1, max = 1000, value = 500) ) mainPanel(plotOutput("distPlot") )

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Hello Shiny: server.R

output$distPlot <- renderPlot({ dist <- rnorm(input$obs) hist(dist) })

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Running Web Apps (Local Browser)

library(shiny)
runApp("folder_name") runExample() runExamples("01_hello") runExamples("07_widgets")

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Widgets: ui.R headerPanel("More Widgets") sidebarPanel( selectInput("dataset", "Choose a dataset:", choices = c("rock", "pressure", "cars")), numericInput("obs", "Number of observations to view:", 10), helpText("Blah Blah Blah Blah"), submitButton("Update View"))
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Widgets: ui.R mainPanel( h4("Summary"), verbatimTextOutput("summary"), h4("Observations"), tableOutput("view") )

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Widgets: server.R
datasetInput <- reactive({ switch(input$dataset, "rock" = rock, "pressure" = pressure, "cars" = cars) }) output$summary <- renderPrint({ dataset <- datasetInput() summary(dataset) }) output$view <- renderTable({ head(datasetInput(), n = input$obs) })

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Tabsets: ui.R headerPanel("Tabsets") sidebarPanel(

radioButtons("dist", "Distribution type:", list("Normal"="norm", "Uniform" ="unif", "Lognormal" = "lnorm", "Exponential" = "exp")), br(), sliderInput("n", "Number of observations:", value = 500, min = 1, max = 1000) )

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Tabsets: ui.R mainPanel( tabsetPanel( tabPanel("Plot", plotOutput("plot")), tabPanel("Summary", verbatimTextOutput("summary")), tabPanel("Table", tableOutput("table")) ))

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Tabsets: server.R
data <- reactive({ dist <- switch(input$dist, norm = rnorm, unif = runif, lnorm = rlnorm, exp = rexp, rnorm); dist(input$n) })
output$plot <- renderPlot({ dist <- input$dist; n <input$n; hist(data(), main=paste0('r', dist, '(', n, ')')) }) output$summary <- renderPrint({ summary(data()) }) output$table <- renderTable({ data.frame(x=data()) })

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Conclusion
Have a go with your own data Put your application on a web server Send everyone the links: http://spark.rstudio.com/alec/fire/ http://spark.rstudio.com/alec/snet/

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Thank you
Computational Informatics Alec Stephenson

t +61 3 9545 8019 e alec.stephenson@csiro.au

COMPUTATIONAL INFORMATICS