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Learning Shiny

You're reading from   Learning Shiny Make the most of R's dynamic capabilities and implement web applications with Shiny

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785280900
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing R, RStudio, and Shiny FREE CHAPTER 2. First Steps towards Programming in R 3. An Introduction to Data Processing in R 4. Shiny Structure – Reactivity Concepts 5. Shiny in Depth – A Deep Dive into Shiny's World 6. Using R's Visualization Alternatives in Shiny 7. Advanced Functions in Shiny 8. Shiny and HTML/JavaScript 9. Interactive Graphics in Shiny 10. Sharing Applications 11. From White Paper to a Full Application Index

UI.R partial coding


As it was said before, the input widgets are the first part of the application that must be coded. In this case, almost all the widgets are on the side panel except the selectors that are used in the education-descending line chart and the earnings chi-square test that are in their corresponding tabs. Also, it is recommended to generate the application's frontend structure at this stage. So, the UI.R code that we have so far would be as shown in the following section.

UI.R

As it may be noted, the arguments of the widgets builders are determined dynamically. The reason behind this is exactly the same as in the creation of factor.vars in global.R: avoid hardcoding. Of course, there are some cases (for example, the sex variable) where this will be unnecessary, as it is impossible that the categories were changed even with a change in the data source. However, in cases such as age, it is perfectly possible that the minimum and maximum values change. So, this dynamic referencing...

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