shinymark

Materials for the Introduction to Shiny and R Markdown workshop at rstudio::conf 2019

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Locating the materials

• Option 1 - :cloud: RStudio Cloud: bit.ly/shinymark

  • If you do not already have an RStudio.cloud account, you will be prompted to login via Google or create a new account.
  • When you are

• Option 2 - :computer: Local installation: github.com/dtkaplan/shinymark

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Outline

Day 1: January 15, 2019

:computer: 09:00 - 10:30: Session 1 - Getting started with Markdown

• 00 - Welcome Getting started instructions + motivation + demo
• 01 - Composing prose with Markdown:
  • Text and headers
  • Links and images
  • Math text
  • Tables
  • The Markdown Quick Reference
  • Your turn: From plain text to embellished

:coffee: 10:30 - 11:00: Morning break

:computer: 11:00 - 12:30: Session 2 - Putting the R in R Markdown

• 02 - Putting the R in R Markdown:
  • Embedding R code -- in chunks and inline
  • Chunk and global options
  • Other languages
  • Output options
  • Output formats
  • Your turn: Restructure from plain R Markdown to xaringan slides or Tufte document

:fork_and_knife: 12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

:computer: 14:00 - 15:00: Session 3 - Upping your R Markdown game

• Tables
• Parameterized reports
• Bibliography and citation
• Templates

:coffee: 15:00 - 15:30: Afternoon break

:computer: 15:30 - 17:00: Session 4 - First dip into interactivity

• Slides: 03B-interactivity-on-the-cheap.key
• Embedding htmlwidgets in R Markdown documents
• Dashboards
• First practice with shiny widgets. Use runtime: shiny

Day 2: January 16, 2019

The activities will be based on files in the apps/ directory. Each file includes a suffix like _01, _02, ....

• Start by opening the _01 file. Edit that to complete the activity.
• In the follow-up exercises, you can keep on going with the file you started with, or if you get lost ...
• Open up the next file (e.g. _02) so that you have a working document for the next activity.

:computer: 09:00 - 10:30: Session 1 - Getting started with Shiny

• 04 - Getting started with Shiny:
  • High level view
  • Anatomy of a Shiny app
  • UI / Server
  • File structure
  • Deploying an app

:coffee: 10:30 - 11:00: Morning break

:computer: 11:00 - 12:30: Session 2 - Understanding reactivity

• 05 - Understanding reactivity:
  • Reactivity 101
  • Reactive flow
  • Implementation
  • Render functions

:fork_and_knife: 12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

:computer: 13:30 - 15:00: Session 3 - Designing UI

• Interface builder functions
• Tabs
• shinythemes

:coffee: 15:00 - 15:30: Afternoon break

:computer: 15:30 - 17:00: Session 4 - Dashboards

• What's in a dashboard?
• flexdashboards
• Where to go next?

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Setup instructions

Install all packages we will need

from_cran <- c("shiny", "rmarkdown", 
               "DT", "devtools", "flexdashboard", "gapminder",
               "rticles", "shinydashboard", "shinythemes", 
               "tidyverse", "tufte", "xaringan")

install.packages(from_cran, repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com")

Load all packages we just installed

lapply(from_cran, library, character.only = TRUE)