Chapter 1 Prerequisites

Before the tutorial please install R and RStudio,

Then install packages from CRAN and Bioconductor with the following R code:

install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("shiny")
install.packages("DT")
install.packages("shinydashboard")

1.1 Download files

download.file(
  "https://github.com/nkandhari/R-ShinyIntro-MBP/raw/master/ShinyApps.zip",
  destfile="ShinyApps.zip")
unzip("ShinyApps.zip")

Download these files. tutorial.R contains all the code in the “tutorial” link below. During the tutorial, we will be stepping through tutorial.R in RStudio.

1.2 Overview

Introduction to Shiny
Structure of a Shiny app
Reactivity
Create Shiny App from scratch
Next steps

Source code

This book was created in R using the rmarkdown and bookdown packages!

GitHub page

Authors and copyright

This course is developed for the Monash Bioinformatics Platform by Nitika Kandhari, Adele Barugahare and Paul Harrison.

This work is licensed under a CC BY-4: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The attribution is “Monash Bioinformatics Platform” if copying or modifying these notes.

Introduction to R Shiny