Creating Interactive Presentations with Shiny and R

Make the results of big data analysis more compelling and clear. Learn how to create interactive presentations and dashboards with RStudio and Shiny.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching
• Using the exercise files
• Using the knowledge checks

1. RStudio

• Why use RStudio?
• RStudio install
• RStudio setup
• Manage your work with projects
• Knowledge check

2. RMarkdown

• Why use RMarkdown?
• Add slide to template
• Add code and charts
• Chunk options and CSS
• Additional presentation options
• Knowledge check

3. RPubs

• Why use RPubs platform?
• Register for an account
• Publish to RPubs
• Knowledge check

4. Shiny

• Why use Shiny?
• Add a shinyApp to a presentation
• Different control types
• Interdependent controls
• Reactive expressions
• Layout Shiny apps
• Themes and customization
• Knowledge check

5. Deploy to Shiny

• Why use shinyapps.io?
• Connect RStudio to shinyapps.io
• Deploy presentation to shinyapps.io
• Manage your deployed shinyapps.io
• Knowledge check

6. Shiny Dashboards

• Why make dashboards with Shiny?
• ui.R and server.R files
• Using htmlwidgets in Shiny apps
• shinyAppDir
• iframes
• Knowledge check

Conclusion

• Next steps