Shiny

The R package shiny makes it incredibly easy to build interactive web applications with R. Shiny features automatic "reactive" data binding between user inputs and outputs as well as pre-built widgets for displaying tables, plots, and dynamic text. Shiny applications can be built entirely with R or can optionally make use of custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Installation

You can install shiny directly from github using the devtools package. In order to install shiny you'll also need to be configured to build R packages from source. To install devtools and verify that you can build packages from source:

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
has_devel()

If the has_devel function produces an error then you'll need to install some additional components required to build packages from source:

• Windows -- Install the appropriate Rtools binaries for your version of R.
• MacOS X -- Install the Command Line Tools for Xcode.
• Debian/Ubuntu -- sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

Next, you need to install a modified version of the websockets package from github:

install_github("R-websockets", "jcheng5")

Finally, you can install the shiny package from github:

install_github("shiny", "rstudio")

To verify that Shiny is installed correctly you can run an example application:

library(shiny)
runExample("01_hello")

If everything is installed and working correctly a browser will open and navigate to the running application.

Tutorial

See the tutorial here:

Feedback

Please use the github issue tracker

License

The shiny package is licensed under the GPLv3. See these files in the inst directory for additional details:

• COPYING - shiny package license (GPLv3)
• NOTICE - Copyright notices for additional included software