Welcome to the "Building Your First Web Apps with R Shiny" workshop! Designed for the R-ladies Zurich Meetup event on June 29, 2023. This workshop will teach participants how to build interactive web applications using R Shiny, a powerful web application framework built on the R programming language.
This workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of developing web applications with R Shiny. It is intended for individuals with a basic understanding of R and data analysis who want to develop web-based data visualization tools and interactive applications.
The workshop will focus on the following subjects:
- Overview of R Shiny and its capabilities
- Setting up the development ecosystem
- Building your first Shiny app
- Adding interactivity and visual elements to Shiny applications
- Outline scripts to aid the practical session
In this repository, you will find the following workshop materials:
- shiny101_slides.Rmd: The main presentation slides
- 00_hell0_world: The first code-along material to build your first shiny app called 'Hello World'
- 01_shiny_ui_layout: A code-along directory where you find an
app.Rfile that shows the most common - Shiny layout - 02_shiny_html_tags: This directory shows how Shiny HTML tags can be used to build an app
- 03_add_controls: In this directory, some UI input widgets and output elements are illustrated
- 04_adding_behaviour: This directory adds reactivity to the UI objects mentioned in
03_add_controls - 05_mini_project: A simple but complete Shiny app called the "Survey App"
- 06_capstone_project: A more comprehensive app 'Data exploration App' which includes all that has been described so far.
To get started with the workshop, please complete the following steps: - Ensure your computer has R and RStudio installed. If not, install and download them from their respective official websites - Download all files, and open the .RProj in RStudio.
Please take a look at the following resources to further your exploration and comprehension of R Shiny:
- Official documentation from Shiny Posit
- The Shiny Gallery: A compilation of Shiny application examples for learning and inspiration
- RStudio Community: An online community forum where Shiny users can post queries and request assistance
- Mastering Shiny by Hadley Wickham: An exhaustive guidebook to Shiny's most advanced concepts and techniques
This workshop content is licensed under the terms of the MIT License. You can use, modify, and distribute the materials following the license terms.
We hope you find this workshop useful and enjoy discovering how to create web applications using R Shiny. Happy coding!