What this book covers

Chapter 1, The RStudio IDE – an Overview, describes how to install RStudio, and gives a general overview of its user interface.

Chapter 2, Communicating Your Work with R Markdown, shows how to create R Markdown documents and presentations with the help of the concept of reproducible research.

Chapter 3, R Lesson I – Graphics System, gives an introduction to the landscape of plotting packages in R and the basic process of plot creation with different packages for interactive graphs.

Chapter 4, Shiny – a Web-app Framework for R, describes how to create web applications with the Shiny framework by explaining the basic concept of reactive programming.

Chapter 5, Interactive Documents with R Markdown, explains how to create interactive R Markdown documents with the Shiny framework and other R packages.

Chapter 6, Creating Professional Dashboards with R and Shiny, introduces the concept of dashboards, and how to build a professional dashboard with the shinydashboard package.

Chapter 7, Package Development in RStudio, describes the basic process of package development in R, and how to create R packages with RStudio.

Chapter 8, Collaborating with Git and GitHub, shows the fundamentals of Git and GitHub, and how to use them with RStudio.

Chapter 9, R for your Organization – Managing the RStudio Server, describes how to install R, RStudio, and the Shiny Server on a cloud server to create a fully flexible programming environment.

Chapter 10, Extending RStudio and Your Knowledge of R, explains where you can find additional resources to improve your work with R and RStudio.