The following guide walks you through how to create a flexdashboard for unifying all of your Cancer InFocus dashboards onto one page.

1. Create a Folder

First, you’ll want to set up a folder for the files needed to build your CIF flexdashboard. Unlike your other CIF dashboards using Shiny, this folder does not need a www folder.

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`-- ShinyFlex/

2. Download Files

Download the following files from GitHub. They can be found in the GitHub folder Cancer_InFocus/CIF Shiny/ShinyFlex:

At this point, you file directory should look like this.

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`-- ShinyFlex/
    |-- cif_flexdashboard.Rmd
    |-- about_us.html
    |-- data_sources.html
    |-- myheader.html
    `-- circle_logo_light.png

3. Change Dashboard URLs

Open the cif_flexdashboard.Rmd file and locate the params items in the header. Replace these URLs with the appropriate URLs for your published CIF dashboards. If you are not using a specific dashboard at the moment (for example, if you are not using CIF Profiles), then you will want to comment out the lines indicated in the body of the script.

4. Knit Your flexdashboard

Once you have updated the URLs, knit your cif_flexdashboard.Rmd file. A preview should appear in the Viewer panel in RStudio. Check this to make sure that all of your CIF dashboards have been linked correctly, as well as to make sure that the Data Sources and About pages are rendering.

5. Publish Your flexdashboard

After you have checked that your flexdashbord is correctly configured, publish it using the same method that you publish your CIF dashboards. After it is published, you can place the published URL in a full page iframe to display your flexdashboard on the webpage of your choice. As an example, here is the Cancer InFocus: Kentucky flexdashboard.

By following these steps you will hopefully be able to display all of your CIF dashboards together in one place. Moreover, this provides a simple and efficient solution for sharing information about data sources used in CIF.

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