Interactions & Frameworks

Materials for class on Monday, November 18, 2019

Contents

Announcements

• Quiz 3 grades.

• Problem Set 4 posted. We’ll spend the last half of class starting this.

• DataCamp 4 due 11:59pm on Tuesday, Nov 26.

Tweet(s) of the day:

🎅 Major announcement for #rstats shiny addicts🎅:
Excited to officially introduce RinteRface, a collection of open-source HTML templates for #shiny and more 🦄
Thanks ??? for joining the project 🔥https://t.co/IAX76FEz1k??? ??? ??? ??? pic.twitter.com/WCvuAxJiI4

— David Granjon (@divadnojnarg) November 28, 2018

RinteRface includes several web frameworks as R packages including: shinydashboardPlus, bs4Dash, argonDash.

Hands-on Class

Creating PowerPoint using R

Tarun Sharma will show a quick demo on using officer package to create PowerPoints using R. RStudio Cloud project

Hands-on Work

We’ll heavily use our RStudio Cloud project for sample Shiny apps.

• Review app 93 (basic interactions)93-107 apps are interactive Shiny Apps
  
  , app 114 (Modal Dialog/Pop Ups) and others.

Next, we’ll use this RStudio.Cloud project to introduce interaction (/interactions/ folder), shinydashboard and related shinywidgets (/shinydashboard/ folder), last other helpful shiny widgets (/widgets/ folder).

The last hour of class will be time for you to work with your groups or begin Problem Set 4.

Helpful Links

1. Brusing & interaction:

• JJ Alaire’s flexdashboard shiny-enabled brushing, John Coene’s echarts4r, crosstalk,echarts4r interactivity is based on crosstalk, e.g., see this brushing/slider tutorial.
  
  or plotlySpecifically see Chapter 15-17 of Carson Sievert’s book.
  
  

2. shinydashboard

• Omayma Said’s Intro to Shiny Workshop

3. Helper functions: dragulaR, shinyWidgets / shiny demo, and waiter

4. Optional slides

• Week 10: Interactions and Week 11: Views by Alexander Lex, CS-5630 / CS-6630 Visualization for Data Science