For your app to work, the file must remain named app.R! Notice that the name you gave to your app was assigned to the directory, not the app script file. Delete all the code in the template so you have a blank script. RStudio generates a template R script called app.R. Next, select File/ New File/ Shiny Web App…, give the application a descriptive name ( no spaces) and change the application type to “ Single File (app.R)”, save the app in an appropriate directory and click Create. See our Git and Github tutorial for more info.

You can click on Clone / Download and either download the zip file and extract the files, or fork the repository to your own Github account. You can download the resources for this tutorial by heading to the Github repository for this tutorial. To get Shiny in RStudio, the first thing you need is the shiny package, by running the code below in RStudio: Bridging the gap between R users and non-R usersġ.

Communicating science in an accessible way.Interactive data visualisation for presentations and websites.Have a look at these examples if you want to see what a Shiny app looks like, or if you want inspiration for your own app.

By using R, Shiny provides an efficient method of creating web applications designed around data presentation and analysis.īelow is an example of the basic Shiny app that we will be recreating in today’s tutorial: The package is used to create web-applications, but uses the R language rather than javascript or HTML5, which are traditionally used for web applications.

Getting familiar with the Shiny app.R layoutĪt it’s core, Shiny is merely an R package like dplyr or ggplot2.

Getting familiar with the Shiny app file structure.

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