Mastering Shiny: Build Interactive Apps, Reports, and Dashboards Powered by R

Shiny is a web framework for creating interactive data analyses and web apps in R. It allows users to explore and manipulate datasets, run models, and customize visualizations without prior knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. This in-depth guide teaches beginners to advanced developers how to build large, complex Shiny apps with maintainability and performance in mind.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 450 pages
Publication date: 14 May 2021
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA

Master the Shiny web framework and take your R skills to a whole new level. By letting you move beyond static reports, Shiny helps you create fully interactive web apps for data analyses. Users will be able to jump between datasets, explore different subsets or facets of the data, run models with parameter values of their choosing, customize visualizations, and much more. Hadley Wickham, from RStudio, shows data scientists, data analysts, statisticians, and scientific researchers with no knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript how to create rich web apps from R. This in-depth guide provides a learning path that you can follow with confidence, as you go from a Shiny beginner to an expert developer who can write large, complex apps that are maintainable and performant.

Get started: Discover how the major pieces of a Shiny app fit together.

Put Shiny in action: Explore Shiny functionality with a focus on code samples, example apps, and useful techniques.

Master reactivity: Go deep into the theory and practice of reactive programming and examine reactive graph components.

Apply best practices: Examine useful techniques for making your Shiny apps work well in production.

Weight: 778g
Dimension: 177 x 234 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781492047384