• Software engineer at RStudio, Inc.
• Creator of Shiny
• Not a stats person… be gentle!

• Interactive web applications around your R analyses
• Zero HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge is required…
• …but fully customizable and extensible with HTML/CSS/JavaScript
• Useful for interactive exploration, reporting, dashboards, collaboration
• Deploy to the cloud or to your own servers
• Vibrant and active community

• Not an R tutorial
• Not a Shiny tutorial
• Just a taste of what Shiny can do for you
• Go to shiny.rstudio.com if you like what you see today
• For questions, consult Ben, myself, or the shiny-discuss mailing list

• Shiny package
  • Write and run Shiny applications locally
  • Open source (GPL-3)
• Shiny Server
  • Linux server software for hosting Shiny applications
  • Open source (AGPL-3)
• Shiny Server Pro
  • Commercial version of Shiny Server w/authentication, security, scalability, monitoring
• ShinyApps.io
  • Cloud hosting Shiny applications
  • Currently in free alpha; free and paid plans eventually

• CRAN is the main source for downloading 3rd-party packages for R
• RStudio, Inc. maintains a popular mirror at cran.rstudio.com
• We also publish the download logs at cran-logs.rstudio.com

• Let's visualize the download logs to determine relative popularity of certain packages
• Note: Uses under-development versions of RStudio, Shiny, and other packages
  • www.rstudio.com/ide/download/preview
  • devtools::install_github(c("yihui/knitr", "rstudio/shiny"))

http://gallery.shinyapps.io/retirement/

Source: github.com/jcheng5/SIT

Forked from an app by Pierre Chetrien and Michael Kapler.

https://jcheng.shinyapps.io/superzip/

Source: github.com/jcheng5/superzip

Inspired by a Washington Post interactive feature on the subject. Uses custom bindings for Leaflet (under development here).