Creating a very simple shiny app in R
The shiny package allows us to create applications in R. The advantage of using the shiny package is the flexibility it provides to users. The googleVis package provides us with the ability to interact with plot, but the shiny package provides its users with the ability to perform very specific tasks, such as uploading/downloading data interactively or creating GUI to calculate analytics.
Getting ready
We require the shiny package to create an application in R. We also need to create a folder in our current directory called shiny (or any other name) and further create two text documents named as server.r and ui.r in the shiny folder.
How to do it…
The server. r file contains the code that gets executed in R and ui.R contains code that creates the user interface. To launch the application, you can install and load the shiny package in R and further execute the runApp("shiny") function. The runApp() function will only execute if the shiny folder is stored...
