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Web Application Development with R Using Shiny

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788993128
Length 238 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Beginning R and Shiny 2. Shiny First Steps FREE CHAPTER 3. Integrating Shiny with HTML 4. Mastering Shiny's UI Functions 5. Easy JavaScript and Custom JavaScript Functions 6. Dashboards 7. Power Shiny 8. Code Patterns in Shiny Applications 9. Persistent Storage and Sharing Shiny Applications 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the grid layout

In the next version of the application, we're going to use the fluidRow() function to apply a custom layout to the UI. This function allows you to implement the standard Bootstrap grid layout, as we saw in Chapter 4, Mastering Shiny's UI Functions.

The width of the screen is given as 12 units, and you can pass the column() functions of arbitrary size into a fluidRow() instruction to define a group of widths adding up to 12. In this simple example, we will have three columns in the first row and then one in the second row. The finished application looks like this:

ui.R

Let's look at the ui.R file necessary to achieve this. The server.R file remains the same as in the previous example. We...

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